Soldier Involvement in Early Equipment Prototyping

Abstract

Early user involvement has many known benefits and has been used by civilian industry to find problems in products before the products are fully distributed. Early soldier involvement also provides benefits that can read to significant cost avoidance, but has additional complex political and economic ramifications that must be addressed. Areas of examination included impacts of differing expectations by affected stakeholders (Users, DOD, ARSTAF, Congress), impacts on the final configuration design, impacts on soldier training, and impacts if prototypes are deployed early - before the First Unit Equipped date. Civilian methodologies for early customer involvement will also be examined and contrasted for relevance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 27, 2000
Accession Number
ADA380092

Entities

People

  • Michael E Johnson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Best Practices
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Guided Missiles
  • Lessons Learned
  • Maintenance
  • Personnel Management
  • Product Prototyping
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Theoretical Analysis.