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August
6,
2002
To:
Secretary of Defense
From: Pete
Aldridge
Subject: Top 5 Priorities for
AT&L
You asked what were my top 5 priorities for the next
18 months. Here they are:
Priority 1: Continue Progress on the 5 Goals
I Set for Myself in May 2001. Goal 1: Improve the credibility
and effectiveness of the acquisition and logistics support process; Goal
2: Revitalize the quality and morale of the AT&L workforce; Goal
3: Improve the health of the defense industrial base; Goal 4: Rationalize
the weapon systems infrastructure with the defense strategy; Goal
5: Initiate high leverage technologies to create the warfighting
capabilities and strategies of the future.
Priority 2: "Re-engineer" the AT&L
Organization. Eliminate marginal activities, transfer functions
that can be better accomplished elsewhere, enhance those higher priority
activities, and improve the responsiveness and efficiency of the
organization. Emphasize policy and oversight versus
management.
Priority 3: Develop an "Acquisition
Excellence" Plan for All Major Weapon Systems. Apply the new
acquisition rules to all new major weapon systems to reduce acquisition
cycle time, minimize program risks and maintain stability. Keep the
JSF on-track, implement a deployment plan for missile defense, decide the
architecture for the Army's Future Combat System (RCS), establish a
development plan for the Navy's DD-X program, develop a balanced program
for "information dominance", rationalize the next generation of platforms
for a new "strategic forces posture", complete the roadmap for
UAVs and UCAVs, and complete the plan for the development and
production of precision munitions.
Priority 4: Complete the Plan for the "Future
Logistics Enterprise". Develop and implement the approach for
"end-to-end distribution" of supplies, parts and equipment, through a
shared data environment and a new "demand management system", to reduce
customer wait time, maximize customer satisfaction, reduce costs and
minimize inventories of supplies. Determine the proper
organizational structure to implement the new logistics
enterprise.
Priority 5: Accelerate the Flow of
Technology to the Warfighter. As the AT&L
contribution to winning the war on terrorism, expand the use of Advance
Concept Technology Demonstrations, revitalize the Technology Transition
Office, increase the budget for Science and Technology, restore DARPA to
high risk/high payoff focus, continue to identify counter terrorism
technologies, and support expanded joint experimentation.
Action. None required. Information only,
unless you would like to offer
guidance. | 
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