Army looks 30
years into future on acquisition, modernization
After spending 11
years focused almost exclusively on large counterinsurgency and stability
operations in Afghanistan, the Army is thinking hard about what's next. Service
leaders tasked with modernization and acquisition say that means they're now
focused on the next few decades — not just the next few years.
Despite some
serious criticism of Army
procurement over the past couple of decades, the service's top acquisition
official, Heidi Shyu, says by necessity, the intense tempo of war has led to
huge achievements in rapidly deploying equipment and technology to the
battlefield: everything from mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicles to
state-of-the-art digital communications systems that replaced analog ones. But
she argues just because the wars are winding down doesn't mean it's time to
step back from acquisition.
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