Army AL&T
Год / месяц: 2016/1-3
Номер: 1
Страниц: 172
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF - 20 MB
AL&T - Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
FROM THE AAE
6 ‘SMALL’ HAS BIG MEANING
Small businesses are no small part of the Army’s acquisition mission
9 INSTILLING EXCELLENCE
Heidi Shyu’s legacy in Army acquisition
ACQUISITION
12 SPOTLIGHT: MR. LONNIE JOHNSON
International agreement work leverages law degree, active-duty experience
14 IT’S ALL IN THE DELIVERY
Q&A with Army small business director Tommy Marks
24 STRENGTH IN (SMALL) NUMBERS
High-tech Army creates opportunities for small businesses in the evolution of the tactical network
29 COMMUNICATING A NEED
Complex battlefield communications involve industry players of all sizes to keep Soldiers connected
34 DRIVING SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS
AMC’s Offices of Small Business Programs use numerous approaches to set the stage for success in changing—and challenging—times
42 SMALL AMMO, BIG BENEFITS
PM MAS partners with small businesses to develop small caliber ammunition, designed to reduce the weight by up to 30 percent
48 GROUND TRUTH
Increasing communication to foster cooperation between industry and government can yield significant benefits for both parties
54 ENGINEERING CONNECTIONS
Five lessons learned by USACE in building relationships with and between small businesses
FEATURES
LOGISTICS
58 SPOTLIGHT: MR. EVERETT F. ‘FRANK’ SMITH
Helping to keep UAS aloft
60 OPENING DOORS
ASC and JMC support ‘big Army’ in a big way, using set-asides, a regional symposium with other commands and an industry week to award nearly $1 billion in work to small businesses
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
66 SPOTLIGHT: DR. TONY THAMPAN
Supporting CERDEC’s ‘whiz-bang stuff’
68 THE FUTURE OF WEARABLE TECH
Wearable, accurate sensors should help the Army keep from working Soldiers to failure
75 INNOVATION ENGINE
The SBIR program enables RDECOM to ride a wave of small business ingenuity at low cost
82 IN THE ‘SHARK TANK’
SoSE&I holds the Army’s first Cyber Innovation Challenge to discover developers of promising technologies for cyber Soldiers
87 FROM BATTLE TO BUSINESS
A U.S. Army Reserve officer starting his own small businesses shows how military management and leadership skills can foster success
93 MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
An engineer explains the basic physics behind force multiplication BBP 3.0
96 SPOTLIGHT: MR. MICHAEL SZCZESNIAK
Longevity backstops JLTV team
98 ‘SHOULD’ DOES
Five years of experience with will-cost/ should-cost program management have proved its value, and the focus now is on how best to further that success
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