Advanced Systems and Concepts Strategic Plan 2006. Innovative Solutions for the Warfighter
Abstract
Our Combatant Commanders (CoComs) face an emerging strategic environment characterized by elusive, fast-adapting adversaries capable of gaining temporary operational advantage with creative tactics and technologies. Against such threats, our operational commanders and the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who serve with them, cannot ensure successful mission accomplishment relying on past products, processes, and systems. They also cannot achieve the results our Nation expects of them on the promises of capabilities to come. The CoComs have one primary job-to successfully accomplish the missions assigned to them today. Advanced Systems and Concepts' (AS&C's)) Strategic Plan defines what we are doing to ensure joint warfighters have the options and tools required to perform successfully. This plan also outlines our performance goals, desired outcomes, and oversight strategies that we will use to accomplish our job. These goals are in line with the President's Management Agenda, SECDEF's Four Year Goals, AT&L's Goals and DDR&E's goals as displayed on the opposite page. It has been ten years since AS&C was created and first demonstrated the ability to rapidly accelerate the technology development cycle and actually field useable operational, %go to war" prototypes to satisfy a critical operational customer need. That complex system, the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, was one of the first successful technology transition programs overseen by AS&C and continues to provide a critical capability for today and the future. But the world has changed dramatically since the Predator concept was first developed. The previous well- defined Warsaw Pact threat has been superseded by an asymmetric threat that covers the entire span of military and other contingency operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA457094