Perspectives on Precision in the Army

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Perspectives on Precision in the Army
Industrial Committee of Ammunition Providers
(ICAP)91st Annual Meeting
Jim Riley
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The Impacts of Precision

• Challenges
• Meeting urgent warfighter needs delivering
  capability
• Sustaining an eroding industrial base
• Addressing costs of precision
• JCIDS
• AT/AJ/CM/CCM
• Export Policy
• Shared rewards and risks (FP production during
  SDD)
• Effective Government Industry Partnership

• Status
• Precision arrives at the Army ammunition
  community
• Solutions on cutting edge of technology drive
  cost, risk, uncertainty as well as capability to
  warfighters
• Precision development initially at Huntsville
  (rockets missiles)
• Over 70 programs cancelled on Claude Boltons
  watch
• No missile program fielded to soldiers in last 10
  years (many cancellations)

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Questions to Challenge

• What can we learn across the services from state
  of the art technology development?
• Can the Ammunition Community learn from the
  lessons of precision missiles?
• How can we break the costly cycle of cancelled
  programs?
• How can the government-industry partnership be
  improved?
• How can risk be best balanced in developmental
  programs? Where is the trade space?
• How can the industrial base be best sustained?
• How can we mitigate unintended consequences?
• How can we all deliver the promise of precision
  to the warfighter?

Doing Nothing is Not An Option
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The Opportunity Space

• Historic convergence of change drivers for reform
• Incredible technological advances offer promise
  of transformational capability to warfighter
• Deeply shared risk and partnership to redefine
  success or failure

Behaviors
Policies
Incentives
Partnership
Procedures