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  • Behind The Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - Cyber Warfare: The Best Offense Is a Powerful Defense
    2026/08/13
    In modern conflicts, cyber space has emerged as a primary domain of warfare—an invisible but decisive battlefield that operates far from the traditional front lines. Ensuring constant cyber warfare superiority demands the ability to always be ready to pivot. The U.S. Army continues its momentum to adjust its portfolios and programs, when necessary, embrace more agile acquisition methods and devise innovative methods to swiftly funnel capabilities to Soldiers while finessing existing processes.
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    6 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - Prime For Change: The Change Leadership Playbook
    2026/07/31
    Organizational leaders constantly talk about transformational structures, launch modernization campaigns and redesign processes to pursue efficiency, innovation or competitive advantage. Yet despite decades of research and countless books, studies and industry surveys have repeatedly suggested that most change initiatives either fail outright or never achieve the intended results. Employees resist change, communication breaks down, leaders lose credibility and organizations quietly revert to the old way of doing business. Often, the technical solution itself is not the problem. The problem is the process.
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    13 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - The Risk of Inaction: How PAE Fires Took Calculated Risks to Rapidly Field the Mid-Range Capability System
    2026/07/31
    The Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) Fires has embraced this shift to rapidly develop, test and field some of the Army’s most vital capabilities such as hypersonic weapons and integrated air and missile defense. This includes managing and taking risks during program development to deliver to the warfighter quickly—programs like the Mid-Range Capability (MRC) system.
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    12 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - Rebalancing Functional Area 51
    2026/07/31
    The “Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform” memorandum directs the U.S. Army to implement multiple directives including implementing “a comprehensive transformation strategy, streamline its force structure, eliminate wasteful spending [and] reform the acquisition process.” Now, a little over a year after the announcement of new initiatives, the U.S. Army has already undergone a multitude of efforts to improve its efficiency including command mergers, acquisition reform restructuring and phasing out legacy systems.
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    7 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - Resilience Matters – Maj. Douglas Richardson
    2026/07/31
    Faces of the Force profile feature on Maj. Douglas Richardson, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, Director, Acquisition Career Management Office Training With Industry fellow of Microsoft.
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    9 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - From the AAE: The Right to Integrate
    2026/07/14
    From The Army Acquisition Executive: Brent G. Ingraham The character of warfare is changing at a pace few institutions were designed to match. Threats are cheaper, faster and more numerous. Technology that once took decades to mature now evolves in months. Our adversaries know this and are adapting accordingly.
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    7 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - Leadership Insight: Deferred Consequences Sustainment Risk in Experimentation and Prototyping
    2026/07/09
    If we project ourselves into the future and see that sustainment costs ultimately become operationally or fiscally unaffordable, will acquisition leaders still defend the decision to accelerate programs while accepting reduced analytical rigor? Or will the Army discover that it merely shifted risk from the present into the future where the consequences became harder, more expensive and potentially irreversible?
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    10 分
  • Behind the Frontlines: Enabling the Warfighter - The Art of Influence: Scaling from Direct to Organizational Leadership
    2026/07/09
    In the Army, leadership is fundamentally defined by ‘influence’. This distinction is the lifeblood of our organization, separating management and administration from the dynamic process of leading Soldiers through conflict and peace.
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    8 分