The Pentagon bureaucracy was broken. Here is a plan to fix it

Pentagon The US forces purchasing system kept full of the most famous military devices in history-from the battle-made Humphi to the advanced Apache helicopter. But according to the best technology official in the army, he is also trapped in a cycle of old thinking and enlarged papers that could hinder the United States in the next struggle of the major powers.

“We still have a little more than 100,000 mystery,” Alex Miller, The chief technology official in the armyTell the Fox News Digital, speaking about the old car that was first offered in the 1980s. “Although during the World War on terrorism, we saw the threat change.”

Miller referred to bombs on the side of the road, or explosive devices, which destroyed the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a turning point. “There were a lot of reports that if Humve was rolling over the explosive devices, this was not a good situation for the soldiers,” he said.

However, the army continued to buy Humvis, even when he rushed into more survival vehicles like MRAPS and Strykes. Miller said this highlights the biggest issue: not a failure in the acquisition, but rather a problem at the level of the system how the army works.

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“We are playing with the same post -Cold War rules that told us if you have a condition, so you will continue to buy it,” Miller said. “Since the process of requirements, the acquisition, and the field process have never changed, we find ourselves in this puzzle as we still have a little more than 100,000 myders.”

Although newer cars such as JLTV – designed to replace HUMVEE with better and motor drawers – Miller says the quick pace of technological change and emerging threats has left even these modern systems at risk to become old.

He said: “Although we continue to buy it and make them in the budget, this may not be the correct answer as well.”

Miller put Army plans To resolve a decades-long issue in the Pentagon, it brought new weapons systems from the proposal stage to the battlefield before technology made it outdated-just as Defense Minister Beit Higseth issued a new memorandum directing a comprehensive reform process for the process of acquisition of the army.

“To build a smaller and more deadly power, the army must turn with an accelerated pace by stripping out of outdated or unnecessary and ineffective programs, in addition to restructuring the headquarters and acquisition systems.”

The new army secretary, Trump, extends to Higseth to create a “hot for change” while he is in the score of waste.

Today’s war with yesterday’s tools

Miller has warned that some of the army’s arms platforms may not be suitable in the future battlefields.

“Ukraine did not ask Apache one.” “Our Apaches is a great platform. It’s amazing. But … looking at more uninhabited systems is the way to go.”

It also raised questions about the benefit of old artillery platforms such as Paladin Howitzer. Although the artillery dominates the war in Ukraine, the army is storing more of the debt to a large extent to meet the “minimum sustainability” – not because the leaders ask them.

This type of bureaucratic stalemate, Miller suggested, is exactly what to raise.

Trying to update more quickly, the army is now cutting the red tape and rewriting the regulations. Under a new initiative called “Conversion in Communication”, army leaders sent a book requirements to the field to live and train alongside the soldiers, and collected notes in the actual time rather than drafting 300 -page documents in Washington.

“Instead of trying to determine the types of things they need, what about we just listen to them for change?” Miller said. “We started that year last year … and that was very successful.”

The units heading to the Fort Johnson joint training center will be equipped next week with some of the most advanced equipment in the army, including independent infantry vehicles that were built with Silicon Valley partners, advanced battery technology and hundreds of drones.

“Everything is because our leadership has just said, go to the right thing, instead of trying to check the pigs,” Miller said.

Now, according to Miller, the requirements for things have been reduced like the next generation of uninhabited air vehicles from between 200 and 300 pages to 10.

In other cases, the update is not always necessary, according to Abyel Blanco, a defense expert and professor at the University of Tampa.

Even a few years ago when I finally retired, one of the basic reconnaissance systems in the terrorism was the global hawks RQ-4.

RQ -4 had a great load capacity of 3000 pounds and advanced reconnaissance capabilities – at a huge cost. Each one was already scheduled to cost $ 20 million, but it ended at a cost of $ 220 million per unit.

“If you look at the air force reports, they have repeatedly mentioned that instead of (RQ-4), they preferred the U-2 spy plane, which, to be clear, are military residues. It is from the Cold War period. Therefore, it is not always clear that the modernization piece is worthy.”

A battle inside the belt

Some legislators and defense officials initially resisted the army to simplify systems.

Miller said, “Observer Osd was very back. Some parts of the hill were pushed back strongly,” Miller said. “But we truly ran an aggressive ground game … We are not asking for more money. We ask to spend the taxpayers better.”

The problem, according to Blanco, is that Congress has long lasted in the budget of equipment that exceeds the point of its benefit.

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“If you are an elected actor and manufacture your area of ​​Hamifi or tanks, you have a truly strong interest in ensuring the continued production of this technology, regardless of whether or not it is necessary.”

In the end, Miller said, the reform of the acquisition is not related to cutting the corners – it is related to keeping pace with the opponent who is not interested in slavery.

“The environment, the threat and reality change very quickly,” he said. “So we have to be mercilessly about working with commercial entities … and knowing what we can get in the hands of soldiers faster.”