Download or read book Acquisition Acquisition of the Army Land Warrior System written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report concerns those managers who are specifically involved in the management, support, and oversight of DoD acquisition programs. The Land Warrior System is a first generation integrated fighting system for dismounted combat soldiers. The Land Warrior System is intended to enhance the lethality, command and control, survivability, mobility, and sustainability of individual soldiers and infantry units and is intended to be fully interoperable with the digital command and control of other platforms. The Land Warrior System's capabilities contribute to the Joint Vision 2010 operational concept of situational awareness and dominant maneuvering by dismounted forces. Funding for the Land Warrior System is $497.3 million for research, development, test and evaluation and $1,940.4 million for procurement. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (the Under Secretary), the acquisition milestone authority, designated the Land Warrior System as an acquisition category I program on May 29, 2002, because the Land Warrior Program meets the requirements for an acquisition category I program based on estimated research, development, test, and evaluation costs.
Download or read book The Land Warrior Soldier System written by Nile L. Clifton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project provides an analysis of the Army's acquisition of the Land Warrior (LW) Soldier System. Its objectives are to document the history of the LW and provide an overview of the program to establish the components of both its development and deployment and its associated business and management characteristics. The product is a document that provides an analysis of the actions taken and the obstacles encountered and how the materiel developers, warfighters, user representatives and lawmakers dealt with them. The LW need was approved in 1993. The requirement was to provide improvements for dismounted soldiers in the five specific capability categories of lethality, command and control, mobility, survivability, and sustainment. For a period lasting approximately 15 years, the LW has evolved. Despite this evolution, the Army in FY 2007 terminated it in FY 2007. Regardless, it has laid the foundation for follow-on soldier system initiatives. The LW was unsuccessful initially due to the misalignment of three interrelated and supporting components; 1) technical immaturity, 2) poor user acceptance, and 3) lack of senior leadership support. Successes that are more recent can be attributed to: 1) soldier-driven design, 2) improved technical maturity, and 3) proven employment of the system in combat by warfighters.
Download or read book Battlefield Automation Army Land Warrior Program Acquisition Strategy May Be Too Ambitious written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1995, the General Accounting Office (GAO) reported to the Congress on the Army's efforts to automate a number of battlefield functions through creation of a vast network of computers, sensors, and communications systems that would provide a common, simultaneous picture of the battlefield from soldier to commander. More recently, GAO examined the Army's Land Warrior soldier system, estimated to cost in excess of $1.4 billion, and its role in the 'digital' battlefield. The objectives for this report were to: (1) determine the status of various technology and human factor problems associated with system development; (2) evaluate the acquisition strategy for the Land Warrior system; and (3) assess plans to integrate the system with the digital battlefield. The Army developed the Land Warrior program to improve the lethality, mobility, survivability, command and control, and sustainability of infantry soldiers on the battlefield through the integration of a variety of components and technologies. Under the Land Warrior program, the Army is developing a computer/radio, software, integrated headgear (including an imaging display), weapon subsystem, and protective clothing and equipment to be integrated on the individual soldier. When developed, this equipment is expected to allow soldiers to interface electronically with other battlefield systems. The Army also plans to include a number of additional technologies later that are intended to further enhance the soldier's battlefield performance.
Download or read book Defense acquisitions assessments of selected major weapon programs report to congressional committees written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 2000 Army acquisitions programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army RD A Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Science and Technology Master Plan written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battlefield Automation Army s Restructured Land Warrior Program Needs More Oversight written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the President's fiscal year 2000 budget request, the Army plans to invest $20.8 billion in digitization over the next 6 fiscal years. Digitization involves the application of information technologies that enable battlefield systems to acquire, exchange, and employ timely information throughout the battlespace. This report responds to the Subcommittee's request that we evaluate the Army's efforts to develop and acquire command and control systems to digitize the battlefield. Specifically, this report addresses the Land Warrior system. Land Warrior, with an expected cost of $2.1 billion, is the Army's key command and control system for infantry soldiers on the digitized battlefield. It is intended to enable the soldier to know where both friendly and enemy soldiers are located and to facilitate communication between the soldier and higher command levels. The system is comprised mainly of a computer/radio, weapon, and helmet-mounted display eyepiece that are linked together for transmission of messages (voice and data) and imagery between soldiers and other battlefield systems. It also includes protective clothing, body armor; and a carrying harness to support the weight of the equipment.
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 2001 Army acquisitions programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tactical Display for Soldiers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.
Download or read book Army Modernization written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indexes for Abstracts of Reports and Testimony written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Efficient Technologies for the Dismounted Soldier written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents electric power requirements for the dismounted soldier on future Army battlefields, describes advanced energy concepts, and provides an integrated assessment of technologies likely to affect limitations and needs in the future. It surveys technologies associated with both supply and demand including: energy sources and systems; low power electronics and design; communications, computers, displays, and sensors; and networks, protocols, and operations. Advanced concepts discussed are predicated on continued development by the Army of soldier systems similar to the Land Warrior system on which the committee bases its projections on energy use. Finally, the volume proposes twenty research objectives to achieve energy goals in the 2025 time frame.
Download or read book Weapon Systems United States Army 1999 written by United States Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training Lessons Learned on Sights and Devices in the Land Warrior LW Weapon Subsystem written by Jean L. Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Land Warrior (LW) system is the Army's future system for the individual soldier. The LW consists of five subsystems, with the weapon subsystem the focus of the training research. The training of two platoons in preparation for a LW operational test was observed. Four sights and devices were trained (the close combat optic, two aiming lights, and the thermal weapon sight), plus a bore light. The training adequately prepared the soldiers to qualify on the M4 carbine with the close combat optic and the thermal weapon sight. Qualification standards were extremely difficult to achieve with the aiming lights on the M4, due to environmental conditions typical of Army ranges, not to lack of firer expertise. A standardized technique for boresighting all the devices was developed. Diagnostic skills needed by trainers and soldiers to effectively hit targets with each device were identified. The findings have immediate applicability to the Army, as the devices are currently being fielded. The report describes what contributes to quality training on the devices, and what should be integrated into marksmanship programs of instruction, technical manuals, and the training and doctrine literature." -- Stinet.
