{"id":20350,"date":"2017-12-06T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/06\/can-the-army-pivot-on-it-modernization\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:07:00","slug":"can-the-army-pivot-on-it-modernization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2017\/12\/06\/can-the-army-pivot-on-it-modernization\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Army pivot on IT modernization?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Amid a sweeping network review under way on the orders of the Army\u2019s top officer, service officials are changing their approach to modernize the service\u2019s IT and networks writ large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cModernization has less to do with what we are buying and more to do with [changing] how we are buying,\u201d said Army CIO\/G-6 Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until recently, IT equipment was bought via operational needs statements and quickly deployed into the hands of soldiers \u2013 good news for troops on the ground in more than 16 years of combat. But the bad news is that equipment never went through the fundamental infrastructure and sustainment processes that create a holistic, networked communications system. That type of approach is thought to be necessary to accommodate future conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s changing, Crawford said Dec. 5 at an AFCEA DC event in Arlington, Virginia. The Army is taking a \u201cfundamentally different\u201d approach as leaders carry out changes in strategy rooted, at least in part, by the network review \u2013 a comprehensive report on which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/land\/2017\/11\/14\/congress-to-limit-win-t-funds-until-army-delivers-tactical-comms-plans\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\">due to Congress<\/a> by the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of those changes focus on the acquisition piece of Army IT, which Crawford said he\u2019s helping transform through an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/show-reporter\/ausa\/2017\/10\/10\/army-taking-adapt-and-buy-tactic-with-new-network-strategy\/\" title=\"\">adapt-and-buy<\/a>\u201d concept emphasizing new ways of using existing buying power. He also said the Army is making better use of acquisition authorities granted in the 2016 and 2017 National Defense Authorization Acts that grant greater flexibility in authority, experimentation, demonstration and acceleration of the contracting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to figure out how we better leverage those institutionally to deliver the capabilities that meet our objectives. So those NDAAs gave us some authorities we were not properly leveraging,\u201d Crawford told C4ISRNET. \u201cAcquisition is not just the act. People tend to focus on just the end, the actual buying, but it\u2019s the entire process from requirements all the way through. So when I talk about changes in Army behavior\u2026it literally had to do with putting policy in place in the Army to streamline this process so we can be better postured and get a better return on our investments, vice this long, drawn-out, three-to-five-year process to deliver capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crawford also said he\u2019s seeing the fruits of efforts going back as far as 18 months, including the establishment of the Army Requirements Oversight Council by Gen. Mark Milley, the Army\u2019s chief of staff, the centralization of governance and decision-making power at the top echelons of the Army, and the creation of an Information Technology Oversight Council that is nearing initial operating capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Army leaders institute some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2017\/10\/10\/army-doubles-down-on-win-ts-fight-tonight-problem\/\" title=\"\">tough decisions<\/a> related to its networks and IT \u2013 chief among them the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2017\/09\/27\/battlefield-network-backbone-takes-hit-in-armys-effort-to-reboot-strategy\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\">cancellation of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical<\/a>, the Army\u2019s flagship battlefield IT network \u2013 Crawford said it\u2019s not just about that officials are saying but what they are doing. 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