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During a Q&A at the AUSA Global Force Symposium, two Army officials explain where the service’s two “rapid” acquisition organizations fit into its new command.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

UPDATED: This story has been updated to add that Tanya Skeen will become the next RCO director.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The Army\u2019s Rapid Capabilities Office<\/a> is slated to become the next official Program Executive Office \u2014 or PEO \u2014 according to the service\u2019s new acquisition chief Bruce Jette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we are going to do is modify the Rapid Capabilities Office to make it essentially a program executive office,\u201d Jette told Defense News in an exclusive March 26 interview at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s Global Force Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RCO will have two subordinate program managers: one that will handle rapid prototyping and one that will be responsible for rapid acquisition, Jette explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RCO was launched in August 2016<\/a> to prioritize developing capability in the areas of electronic warfare, precision navigation and timing, and cyber, areas that were neglected in the counterinsurgency operations of the past 15 years. Now that the Army is anticipating having to go up against more near-peer adversaries in contested environments, it is turning its attention back to making sure its capability overmatches those of possible enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Army Rapid Capabilities Office looks to solve challenges on Korean Peninsula<\/a><\/i>]
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With the advent of the Army Futures Command<\/a> designed to rapidly tackle the Army\u2019s six modernization priorities, questions were raised about how the RCO would fit into the new organization as it, too, is designed to rapidly meet top priorities, albeit slightly different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jette said the rapid prototyping program manager would have responsibility to go to the Army Futures Command\u2019s cross-functional teams and assist in providing prototypes that meet CFTs\u2019 requirements. There is a CFT assigned to each priority<\/a> in the AFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[US Army\u2019s Futures Command sets groundwork for battlefield transformation<\/a><\/i>]
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The rapid prototyping PM could provide two types of rapid prototyping, Jette said. One type of prototype would help test operational concepts, while the other type would test various technologies of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe CFT, having connectivity to both of those, could come back and say, \u2019You know, I really understand what we need for certain aspects of that system and generate a very mature requirements document,\u201d Jette said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the technology meets a readiness level that reaches a threshold for possible consideration for acquisition and the requirements are refined and robust enough, then that could potentially move to the rapid acquisition branch of the RCO PEO, according to Jette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd then, perhaps assuming all the funding and things are aligned, boom, we put out the first initial operational capability,\u201d amount of systems, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Jette said, the Army could go back to the prototype and mature it again, apply lessons learned from IOC fielding and begin developing \u201cblock 2\u201d versions \u201cright away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jette noted there is a certain degree of maturation depending on whether its a prototype or a fully-fielded system. \u201cThere are aspects of some full system fieldings that you generally don\u2019t bother with when you are doing rapid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army would need to make a decision on whether the plan is to keep rapidly prototypinig a \u201cskinnied down\u201d system or if another approach is more appropriate that would lead to a full system fielding, according to Jette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, he said, training and sustainment pieces \u201care a big piece of what that big ugly acquisition chart gets at. Fielding sequences is also another one, so at some point it might be possible you will have a hybrid, development gets done through rapid prototyping, rapid acquisition, but the sustainment and support elements [for a capability] get done through the PEOs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Jette is not sure exactly when the RCO will become an official PEO, he said it will happen this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Army\u2019s RCO will get a new director \u2014 Tanya Skeen \u2014 effective April 15. Skeen is currently deputy director of test and evaluation for the Air Force. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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