Acquisition & Logistics Excellence Save the Date for the 2017 DoD Product Support Manager Workshop Bill Kobren Defense Acquisition University Director, Logistics & Sustainment Center Dec. 12, 2016 Product support managers, life cycle logisticians, defense industry counterparts, program managers, and other interested members of the defense acquisition workforce once again have the opportunity to attend the annual DoD Product Support Manager (PSM) Workshop. Since 2011, the Department of Defense has hosted four Product Support Manager (PSM) Workshops. The 2017 Workshop is slated for June 6–8, 2017, in the Jacob E. Smart Conference Center at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics & Materiel Readiness) has blocked 75 rooms at the on-site lodging facility for out-of-town attendees. The facility is within walking distance of the conference center. The focus of this upcoming DoD PSM Workshop is to provide an opportunity to develop the workforce’s sustain- ment planning competency, share proven practices, and strengthen collaboration between industry and gov- ernment leaders—as well as to learn, to grow professionally, and to facilitate dialog with colleagues. Mark your calendars now. Further details, including registration information, will be forthcoming, and will be available on the PSM Reference Repository on the DAU Logistics Community of Practice (LOG CoP), the AT&L Leadership Blog portal, and the ODASD (Materiel Readiness) websites. Navy Program Office Recognized for Innovation Navy Program Office Recognized for Innovation Excellence Excellence PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR COMMAND, CONTROL, COM- PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR COMMAND, CONTROL, COM- MUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS AND INTELLIGENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS MUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS AND INTELLIGENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS (DEC. 12, 2016) (DEC. 12, 2016) Krishna M. Jackson Krishna M. Jackson SAN DIEGO—A team from the Navy’s Undersea Integration SAN DIEGO—A team from the Navy’s Undersea Integration Program Office (PMW 770) was selected for the 2016 In- Program Office (PMW 770) was selected for the 2016 In- novation Excellence Acquisition Team of the Year award by novation Excellence Acquisition Team of the Year award by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN RD&A). The team was recognized and Acquisition (ASN RD&A). The team was recognized Nov. 18 and 28, 2016. Nov. 18 and 28, 2016. The award acknowledges PMW 770’s Model Based Systems The award acknowledges PMW 770’s Model Based Systems Engineer (MBSE) team for its development of an integrated Engineer (MBSE) team for its development of an integrated modeling environment that reduces costs and risks asso- modeling environment that reduces costs and risks asso- ciated with developing and modernizing submarine com- ciated with developing and modernizing submarine com- munications components, systems, and system of systems. munications components, systems, and system of systems. 1 Defense AT&L: March-April 2017 Acquisition & Logistics Excellence The Navy’s Undersea Integration Program Office (PMW 770) Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) team receives applause from Rear Adm. Christian “Boris” Becker, right, commander, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) and John Pope III, executive director PEO C4I, left, upon receiving the Department of the Navy 2016 Innovation Excellence Acquisition Team of the Year award. The team was initially presented the award during an awards ceremony at the Pentagon Nov. 17, 2016. PMW 770 uses MBSE to quickly integrate commercial off-the-shelf technology and mod- ernize the Navy’s current technologies to work with already existing systems. U.S. Navy photo by Krishna M. Jackson The team joined other acquisition excellence awardees at “We started to use the model to help better understand the Pentagon Nov. 17, 2016, for an awards presentation by the finest details of the end-to-end NC3 architecture and the Hon. Sean J. Stackley, ASN RD&A. our cybersecurity posture. I think this has almost universal application across the Navy to both shore and afloat envi- “Being recognized by the Navy for our innovative efforts and ronments,” said Starr. success in using resources more efficiently is excellent. Our engineering need drove us to adopt the MBSE modeling tool, The MBSE Team documented more than 18,000 compo- in this case helping us do more with the same, I personally nents and interfaces within the submarine communications feel the real benefit is showing our workforce that not only realm and entered the data into a computer-based integrated is innovative thought advocated, it is rewarded. I am most modeling environment where they can analyze the effects excited for the next innovative solutions,” said Capt. Ed An- of adding, taking away, or changing a component or system. derson, PMW 770 program manager. The MBSE provides a 400 percent increase in detail avail- ability to traditional development and modernization tools. Anderson was joined by the MBSE team; Brent Starr, Todd This reduces the risk of outages by 30 percent to 60 percent Trahan, Brent Murray, Anthony Russell, and Peter Brklycica, during system integration and modernization. recognized during both ceremonies. Starr, as the team lead, provided an overview of how he and his team applied MBSE “The visibility the MBSE model gives us throughout the to integrating submarine communications during a PEO C4I systems engineering process allows us to provide more se- all-hands awards ceremony. cure, more robust, and better sustainable systems. This has Defense AT&L: March-April 2017 2 Acquisition & Logistics Excellence a direct impact on performance in the field and reduces the “Over the last four or five years as we’ve tried to deal with maintenance load on our sailors,” said Starr. $800 billion in defense cuts,” the deputy secretary ex- plained, “each of the Services has had to choose priorities, PMW 770 is now using MBSE to address one of the biggest and generally what has happened is that munitions have challenges many Navy program offices face today and that taken short-shrift.” is how to quickly integrate commercial off-the shelf tech- nology and modernize the Navy’s current technologies to As a result, Work said, “we took a careful look at the differ- work with already existing systems. PMW 770 is one of the ent inventory objectives and tried to … expand munitions first program offices to use MBSE to document and control procurements as much as we can.” submarine communication baselines and upgrades. Industrial Base Innovation “PMW 770 is leaned on heavily by the fleet to maintain Work’s first stop was Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, awareness of and champion new capabilities, opportuni- Arizona. The company, according to its website, is a tech- ties, and remove challenges. We are doing a very good job nology and innovation leader founded in 1922 with head- staying out in front of new technology,” said Anderson. quarters in Waltham, Massachusetts—61,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in 2015 sales. Anderson said he is most excited about the next innovative solutions his team will develop as they continue to support “They are one of our premier missile manufacturers,” Work one of the Navy’s most critical missions. PMW 770 delivers said. “They do a lot of other things, but I went specifically to integrated and interoperable C4I capabilities by creating, Tucson to see their missile plant.” connecting, and maintaining communication infrastructures for both afloat and shore for the Undersea Domain. Among other things in Raytheon’s 9,600-square-foot Space Factory, scientists in some of the world’s cleanest “clean Their mission keeps the undersea forces connected through rooms” work on an evolving series of Raytheon-designed the latest advances in communication technologies critical exo-atmospheric kill vehicles that seek and destroy ballistic to the unique mission submarines and other undersea ve- missiles in space. Kill vehicles carry no explosives—they de- hicles conduct in support of national security, nuclear de- stroy missiles by steering into their paths and slamming into terrence, and in the event of a nuclear threat including the them, company literature says. Navy’s Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) assets. For more information, visit http://www.navy.mil, http:// Raytheon, Work says, has automated a lot of its production, www.facebook.com/usnavy, or http://www.twitter.com/ using bright-yellow Fanuc industrial robot systems to test usnavy. For more news from Space and Naval Warfare Sys- and calibrate every weapon they make, not just one out of tems Command, visit http://www.navy.mil/local/spawar/. every 20. Work Praises Industrial Base Innovation After “It used to be a very laborious process with humans on a Raytheon, Boeing Visits bench, so they’ve invested a lot in robotics and [during the DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NEWS, DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY tour] they demonstrated to us how the robots work,” he said, (DEC. 5, 2016) as the robots tested a missile’s seeker for infrared radiation, Cheryl Pellerin vibration, and more. ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT—Defense Department recommendations in the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget “It’s all on one line and the robot does everything, so the heavily emphasize increased munitions acquisition, Deputy missiles are cleared faster and [the systems] are much more Defense Secretary Bob Work said yesterday. accurate over time,” Work added, noting that Raytheon is using the same kind of robotic processing for some of its On his way back to Washington after a four-day trip to small space capabilities, like small low-earth-orbit satellites. Arizona and California to meet with defense contractors, Raytheon thinks a lot about advanced capabilities, the dep- have lunch with airmen at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base uty secretary said. in Tucson, and participate in the Reagan National Defense Forum, Work spoke with reporters traveling with him about “We spent about an hour talking about their ideas on hyper- his meetings.