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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.

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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.”

For additional informa-tion, visit the HCI website at www.hci.mil or contact the HCI team at HCIacq-workforce@hci.mil.

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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