www.APGNews.com Vol. 63, No. 26THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2019
newsbrief
SYMPOSIUMAEC hosts 2nd Annual
Leadership Symposium
at APG North (Aberdeen)
recreation center.
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READINESSTobyhanna Army Depot
earns 2018 Process
Improvement Program
Team Excellence Award.
TADY|B2
SAFETY2019 Summer Safety
Campaign kicks off
with contest. Submit
responses by July 5.
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DOD ACQUISITION
WORKSHOPOUSD (A&S)
The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Ellen Lord, hosted the inau-gural Early Career Work-shop at the Pentagon last week. The goal of the workshop was to gain an operational perspective of what is working well and what can be improved by engaging a select subset of the acquisition work-force. Topics included tal-ent mobility, attracting and retaining talent through work-life balance initia-tives, and accountability.
The 19 workshop par-ticipants represented the more than 38,000 mem-bers of the early career acquisition workforce. The workshop will serve as a change initiative plat-form for the early career workforce (5-10 years in service), and launches a continuous engagement strategy that purposely involves them in shaping their role in the future of acquisition.
Feedback from this crit-ical subset of the acqui-sition workforce showed that they want to play a role in shaping the future of Defense acquisition. The workshop and out-brief to the senior leader-ship was done with that opportunity in mind.
Lord thanked the work-shop participants, “Each of you represent the finest in DOD’s acquisition work-force. Your involvement in change and your rec-ommendations are exact-ly what we need moving forward.”
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BY DAN LAFONTAINE
CCDC C5ISR Center
ABERDEEN PROVING
GROUND, Md. – The Army
Futures Command has developed
an intelligent power and ener-
gy architecture that enables the
interoperability of multination-
al power systems during coalition
operations.
The Combat Capabilities Devel-
opment Command, an AFC sub-
ordinate command, integrated a
tactical microgrid with Italy and
Canada in June during Capable
Logistician 2019, a multinational
logistics exercise to test interoper-
ability and assess NATO standards,
that was held at Drawsko Pomor-
skie Training Grounds, Poland.
The exercise, which included
approximately 3,450 troops and
Computer Engineer Stefan Siegfried, front, and electronics engineer Richard Bosse, of the U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR Center, conduct testing on a multinational tactical microgrid during Capable Logistician 2019 at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Grounds, Poland in June 2019.
NATO photo
Powering the FutureExercise Tests
Interoperability of Multinational Power Systems
See POWER, page B5
CCDC Army Research Laboratory
RESEARCH TRIANGLE
PARK, N.C. -- Several thousand
U.S. Army engineers and scien-
tists are nearing retirement age.
Army officials said they will devel-
op and attract new talent to fill
those vacancies through a partner-
ship with the University of North
Carolina System.
The U.S. Army Combat Capa-
bilities Development Command’s
Army Research Laboratory, the
Army’s corporate research labora-
tory, formally signed an education-
al partnership agreement with the
UNC System, June 18. Officials
said they hope to stimulate stu-
dent interest in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics edu-
cation, particularly in areas of rel-
evance to Department of Defense
missions.
The agreement will facilitate
new partnerships between the
Army and individual UNC System
institutions. It allows institutions,
colleges, and even departments,
to expedite their own potentially
groundbreaking agreements with
the laboratory.
“By streamlining the approval
process for education partnership
agreements at individual institu-
tions, this agreement will open up
collaboration opportunities and a
pipeline of new ideas,” said ARL
Director Dr. Philip Perconti. “We
UNC System, Army Spur Student Interest in STEM
Dr. Barton H. Halpern, director Army Research Office, an ele-ment of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, left, and Dr. William Roper, University of North Carolina System interim president, right, sign an education partnership agreement between the Army and individual UNC System institutions to stimulate stu-dent interest in STEM education, particularly in areas relevant to Department of Defense missions.
Photo by CCDC ARL
PM Tactical Network trained and fielded multiple new network transport capabilities across the 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in just three months.
Fielding numerous capabilities across a division in a short window of time provides distinct advantages; it saves resources, cost and time for all stake-holders involved, and provides the unit ample time to train on the capabilities in operational exercises prior to real world missions.
However, even more than other field-ing efforts, it requires a fully synchro-nized and unified fielding approach, to ensure force readiness with the least possible disruption to the units.
Photo courtesy of PEO C3T
Unified Fielding: Synchronization
is Key
See STEM, page B5