The Army's Mission Command Battle Lab: Helping to Improve Acquisition Timelines
Abstract
The mission of the Mission Command Battle Laboratory (MCBL) is to mitigate risk to current and future Army forces by examining and evaluating emerging concepts and technologies through experimentation, studies, and prototyping, while informing the combat development and acquisition processes. MCBL collaborates with the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), academia, the National Laboratories, industry, the Army acquisition community, Command and General Staff School (CGSS), and other organizations and allies around the world. Through this collaboration and process simultaneity, the MCBL is working to improve acquisition timelines and get capabilities to soldiers faster. The several battle laboratories and experimentation and analysis elements in the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) are the principal organizations for Army experiments and science and technology (S&T) endeavors. This article focuses on the efforts of Mission Command Battle Laboratory, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, but all of these organizations do critical work supporting concept and capabilities development.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA564400
Entities
People
- Brett R. Burland
- Jeffrey D. From
Organizations
- Defense Acquisition University