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Equip and Sustain the Australian Defence Force
Adaptive Acquisition & L125
COL Mark JenningsDirector Diggerworks
7 Nov 13
Equip and Sustain the Australian Defence Force
• Army has many small projects which require the acquisition of thousands of items and, in many cases with little thought of integration, particularly on to the soldier.– Led to a ‘Christmas Tree’ effect.
• Need for a more responsive acquisition approach to equipping close combatants.
• The soldier must be considered as an integrated Soldier Combat System, rather than simply the aggregation of individual components.
Soldier Combat Ensemble Problem
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Some Army DefinitionsL125 Project Guidance documentation:
• “Adaptive Acquisition is an iterative process that combines discovery & learning by acknowledging that the specifications of the required capability are often unable to be fully known until a response is stimulated by using that capability on operations and / or in training.”
L125-3B Project Guidance
• “Adaptive Acquisition envisages the selective & limited roll-out of mature MOTS or COTS equipment solutions to meet Army operational requirements and the supporting RTS tasks within the Army Force Generation cycle. The end-state will be technically up to date equipment that meets operational requirements; and enhances the ability of individual close combatant personnel to survive on the battlefield and contribute to the combat effectiveness of of ADF dismounted combatants.”
L125-4 Draft Project Guidance
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Some Procurement Manual DefinitionsEvolutionary Acquisition:
• The spiral approach to Evolutionary Acquisition is used where the end-state requirements are not known in detail at the outset of the project. Under this approach, an acquisition strategy is implemented to acquire the required system in such a way that the requirements are able to be progressively refined & applied to future increments.
• Evolutionary acquisition projects generally will be heavily reliant on feedback from users in earlier phases to determine the future of subsequent phases… the exact functionality & price of early increments may be agreed up front, but later increments will typically not be agreed until prior to the start of each increment
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Key Tenets
• No longer is everyone to be equipped the same:– Tier 1 – Specialists– Tier 2 – Close Combatants– Tier 3 – General Combatants
• The close combatant is to be treated differently.
• Buy less more often. • System upgrades delivered in synch
with Army’s force generation cycle.
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Adaptive Methodology• Identify the problem or requirement
– From the field– From our allies– From threat analysis – From modernisation concepts
• Analyse options– Technology evaluation– Industry engagement
• Develop or identify the integrated solution– Science and Technology– Design Engineering– Test and Evaluation
• Report to Army and hand off to a Systems Program Office for acquisition.
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Shaped Plate Trial: Potential Spiral• 4 plates to be trialled (comparative
assessment)– In-service
• CIB24• SAPI
– Prototypes• Hybrid CIB24/SAPI• 50th percentile chest curvature Male
and Female (from L400 Anthropometric survey results)
• Plate carrier– TBAS Tier 2 Version 3.0+/4.2
• Trial participants– 8 Males/ 8 Females
• Australian Load Effects Assessment Program (AUS-LEAP) trials facility– 10 obstacles,4 activities– Subjective feedback from soldiers– Objective data (Time to complete
course)
Male chest curvature plate
Female chest curvature plate
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Yr 0
Yr 1
Yr 2
Yr 3
Force Generation
Cycle
Adaptive Acquisition
Cycle
High Readiness & Operations
Reconstitute & Individual Training
Collective Training & Force Preparation
Op Feedback
Integration& Testing @ Diggerworks
Refined Tender Spec
Acquire & deliver new
System
2 Year Turnaround
ReadyReadyReady ResetResetReset ReadyingReadyingReadying
User Need Refined
Trg Feedback
Modify
Yr 4
Yr 5
Yr 6
High Readiness & Operations
Reconstitute & Individual Training
Collective Training & Force Preparation
Op Feedback
Integration& Testing @ Diggerworks
Refined Tender Spec
Acquire & deliver new
System
2 Year Turnaround
ReadyReadyReady ResetResetReset ReadyingReadyingReadying
User Need Refined
Trg Feedback
Modify
Yr 0
Yr 1
Yr 2
Yr 3
Yr 4
Yr 5
Yr 6
Yr 0
Yr 1
Yr 2
Yr 3
Force Generation
Cycle
Adaptive Acquisition
Cycle
High Readiness & Operations
Reconstitute & Individual Training
Collective Training & Force Preparation
Op Feedback
Integration& Testing @ Diggerworks
Refined Tender Spec
Acquire & deliver new
System
2 Year TurnaroundSCE V1.1
ReadyReadyReady ResetResetReset ReadyingReadyingReadying
User Need Refined
Trg Feedback
Modify
Yr 4
Yr 5
Yr 6
High Readiness & Operations
Reconstitute & Individual Training
Collective Training & Force Preparation
Op Feedback
Integration& Testing @ Diggerworks
Refined Tender Spec
Acquire & deliver new
System
2 Year TurnaroundSCE V2.0
ReadyReadyReady ResetResetReset ReadyingReadyingReadying
User Need Refined
Trg Feedback
Modify
Yr 0
Yr 1
Yr 2
Yr 3
Yr 4
Yr 5
Yr 6
SCE V1.0
Use and limited sustainment Deliver Use and limited sustainmentDeliver
SCE V1.1
Deliver
SCE V2.0
V1.0
Adaptive Acquisition and FORGEN
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Evolutionary Acquisition Outcomes• Specifies the initial functionality required and the manner in which it
can be incorporated into successive releases
• Design development requirement allows customer and contractor to improve the design over the life of the contract
• As new functionality or requirements are identified, orders are placed for incorporation into the evolving requirement– Must integrate with current and past orders
Note that actual Acquisition strategy and contracting methodology are ultimately determined on a case by case basis by the Project
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Integrated removable knee pads
Current Version 5 Terra Combat Boot
2013 T2 Equipment
AMP Combat Trousers
Stretch panels to facilitate body movement (rear waist, crotch, knees)
Pelvic Protection System: Tier 1 (under garment, not visible)
Tier 2 (over garment, not shown)
LA 5 Aiming Device
Integrated removable elbow pads
Australian F88 Advanced Combat Optical Gun Sight
AMP Combat Shirt
Enhanced Combat Helmet Upgrade 2 (VAS Shroud, OPSCORE retention
system, Team Wendy Pads) Ballistic and Laser Ocular Protection System (Sunglasses)
Hydration System (on back)
Tiered Body Armour System (includes load carriage, ammunition pouches and
belt)
F88SA2 Rifle
Combat Gloves
Soldier Personal Radio, Switch Pack and Headset
NINOX NVG and WILCOX mount (not shown)
Garmin Foretrex GPS (under shirt sleeve)
MultiBand Inter/Intra Team Radio, Whip Antenna, Holster, Battery and Headset
(on back, whip antenna visible)
Field Packs available for use (not shown):Sniper/Spec Packs (new), Medium Assault Pack, Small Assault Pack
(Special Forces only) andLarge Field Pack 05
AMP Hat (not shown)
AMP Field Shirt (not shown)
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Current Version 5 Terra Combat Boot
2013 T3 Equipment
AMP Combat Trousers
Pelvic Protection System: Tier 1 (under garment, not visible)
Tier 2 (over garment, not shown)
AMP Combat Shirt
Enhanced Combat Helmet Upgrade 2 (VAS Shroud, OPSCORE retention
system, Team Wendy Pads)
Ballistic and Laser Ocular Protection System (Sunglasses)
Hydration System (on back)
Tiered Body Armour System – Tier 3 (includes load carriage, ammunition
pouches and belt)
F88SA2 Rifle with 1.5 Optical Sight
Combat Gloves
Soldier Personal Radio, Switch Pack and Headset (not shown)
AMP Hat (not shown)
AMP Field Shirt (not shown)
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Summary• Adaptive Acquisition is an Army initiative to provide up to date equipment
over the life cycle of a project– Requirements may evolve over time– Requires different contracting approach
• Currently limited to Soldier Combat System Projects– L125-3B:focus on SCE– L125-3C Ancilliaries– L125-4
• Issued to units within Army’s tiered approach– Not a big bang to replace all items– Unit entitlement as opposed to individual issue (for T1,T2, T3 specific
equipment)– Sustainment through replacement
• Modernisation through COTS and MOTS focus– DW watch and monitor emerging trends to inform development of SCE– Injection of iterative development items as they mature– Inform deliberate adaptation cycle or urgent operational requirements
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– Diggerworks - diggerworks@defence.gov.au Please use this address if you wish to contact Diggerworks directly on proposed enhancements to the soldier combat systems.
– Integrated Soldier Systems Branch - soldier.systems@defence.gov.au Please use this address if you have generic enquiries about the Branch's business, or if you are unsure who to talk to on an issue. Your email will be passed to the appropriate person to respond.
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