Good morning A USa Welcome to
Warriors Corner Day one . Our first
presenters topic is by soldiers for
soldiers building an organic soldier
lead software development capability in
the army presenters include Lieutenant
Colonel veto . Eriko , Director of Army
Software factory . Army Futures Command ,
First Lieutenant Michael David ,
Military Project Product Manager ,
First Lieutenant Ammand Shaw . Military
application Engineer and staff Sergeant
chris paulie , military platform
engineer .
Hey , good morning everybody .
Everybody hear me okay . Alright ,
first of all , thank you for joining us
for the inaugural Warriors Corner
presentation . It's an absolute honor .
It appeared to be representing General
Murray and Sergeant Major Crosby and
all of the army futures command team .
Some of you might be wondering what the
army software factory is and we're here
to talk about that as we do that I
would ask you to think about and
consider two questions as we talk about
everything that the software factory um
potentially provides the army . The
first one How to industrial age
organizations up skill and re skill
their talent to dominate in an
information age . The second question ,
how does the army prepare its soldiers
for a future operating environment ?
That's going to ask commanders to make
better and faster decisions among an
increasing amount of data streams and
information flows . That's what we
think the software factory . Does it
answer those two questions . Let's go
to the first time . Some of you , maybe
you wonder where did this come from ?
Uh it comes from ? Like the secretary
talked about during her keynote , an
incredible amount of analysis . Uh not
by the army or not Buy futures .
Command . um but by multiple bipartisan
non part of partisan groups from across
the federal government , Integrating
software engineers and data scientists
to the leading edge should not be a
controversial issue in 2021 . How about
the next slide ? What does it mean for
the army ? Well , like we kind of
talked about as commanders face an
increasing amount of data streams to
make decisions at the nipper sipper J
Wickes and commercial internet levels .
Somebody's got to be at that last
tactical mile to make sense of all that
information . We're not so sure we're
gonna be able to move contractors
around the battlefields in the same way
that we were able to do so in Iraq and
Afghanistan and we certainly think in
the age , in the information age it's
time to start investing in soldiers who
have the skill sets already . Let's go
to the next line .
Ultimately , the army software factory
nested with the chief information
officer of the army and the enterprise
cloud management agency of the
underneath the C . I . O . Is about how
do you produce an autonomous
application or product team that's
capable of prototyping , developing and
getting a solution on an operational
network at the edge of the battlefield
that we can't prepare them to do . Now
we don't know what commanders might
need them to do . So we've got we've
got essentially plan for ambiguity and
plan for unpredictability and by
investing in this competence for
soldiers . Now we can begin to invest
in the future . At the end of the day ,
we all kind of see one off solutions
that get built across the army . Both
the software factory is about doing is
building an enduring and scalable
capability for soldiers across the army
again . Well , necid with H . P . D . A .
With the chief information officer of
the army and with the enterprise cloud
management agency . Let's go to the
next one . So what's so special
about upscaling and re scaling a
workforce for the information agent ?
How do we do it ? Well , we had this
idea that there's probably a lot of
software development talent in the army
that the army didn't realize it has
this morning , the secretary talked a
little bit about the race for talent .
We're a big part of that . We thought ,
let's start doing some soldier
interviews and seeing how many soldiers
across the army would be interested in .
Agile dep , sec , ops , agile software
development platform engineering , all
these sort of not so emerging
technologies that Silicon Valley and
private industry have sort of figured
out that the army needs to begin
investing in a big way . And you might
not be surprised to realize That we
after about 3000 soldier touchpoints ,
we discovered a completely untapped
market of soldier talent . And it was
abundantly clear to army leadership at
that point that the army had an
opportunity here to put that talent to
work and um , we've got some of them ,
they're going to be talking a little
bit later after I'm done . But you can
imagine where should the army be
investing some talent when it comes
time to the choice of truck driver or
software developer , combat medic or
platform engineer . We've got such
amazing talent in the army that can be
re scaled , that's mislabeled , that's
underutilized that we can put towards
emerging technology skill sets . So
what we do is , uh , we've been getting
about 250-350 fully qualified
applications every six months . We
assemble a cohort of soldiers , uh ,
and put them towards lines of effort
like product management , user design ,
application engineering , platform
engineering . And we , and we baseline
their skill sets . We choose about 25
of them to be a part of five
application teams , uh , in a sort of a
paste bi annual process . Once they get
that technical accelerator , we bring
them in and we pair them with Silicon
Valley experts . Not so that they can
hold their own expertise , but they can
begin to learn to how to work as a
Silicon Valley product team , just like
we might see in some of our favorite
Silicon Valley companies , but really
it's the teamwork , it's learning how
to prototype a solution that they
weren't handed and prescribed the exact
answers ahead of time . It's again ,
it's that planning for ambiguity factor
at the same time , We're teaching them
how to build for a production
environment . And that gets back to our
relationship with the as we co develop
our platform with the Chief information
officer and the enterprise cloud
management agency by teaching them how
to build for production . We sort of
underwrite a lot of the risk that we
see going on across industry and across
the army and how to build a deficit
cops capability that that has yet to
really be um championed . We're going
to hear a little bit more about that
afterwards . So the whole idea then now
you've got about a year's worth of
experience in a variety of different
ways is now you have these , these
soldiers that can then in turn and turn
around and train the soldiers that come
after them . So again , every six
months , it gives us this cohort model
that allows us to sort of like like
agile software development to build
measure and learn . That's the
fundamental idea here is how do we grow
this in a self sustaining way ? Um ,
that's that's sort of the special sauce
there and you get an idea for , for how ,
how much across the whole army that
were really pulling . Um , a variety of
mos is a variety of ranks . We didn't
really care and this is key , We didn't
really care what rank you were or where
you went to grad school . In fact , we
probably thought most of our soldiers
didn't need to go to grad school to be
able to code and they , most of them
have not . So we have soldiers
everywhere from the rank of private
first class all the way up to major .
And the idea is to put rank aside and
promote ideas . Uh , because you can
imagine just as much as what a private
first class can learn from a captain ,
you can imagine what that captain can
learn from that private first class .
And that's the fundamental ideas as we
consider how the army should invest and
institutionalize expertise in emerging
technologies . Let's go to the next one ,
the third part of the software factory ,
right . We have the human talent
management component , We've got the
technology component , but we've also
got the component of it that sort of
forges relationships with , uh , non
traditional industry with the tech
industry , uh , with the traditional
defense industry and that's a big part
of what we're doing down in Austin . So
every week we're hosting lunch and
learns , we're hosting talks from
Microsoft from facebook from google .
Uh , and the soldiers are getting
exposed to that sort of problem solving
process that Silicon Valley has , has ,
has sort of championed . Um , and we're
sort of leveraging the fact that the
software factories in such a phenomenal
location like Austin where right down
the road or the headquarters of google
facebook and Tesla , right up the road
is the UT McCombs School of Business
and then that leads us to national
partnerships with a lot of the
companies that are here today . Let's
go to the next slide please .
But I would also kind of point out to
everybody here today that's listening
is that we have a tendency to sort of
plan things in a vacuum and we build in
a way that hey , everything is gonna be
great in the next two years . We didn't
do that in this case , just like agile
software development . We sort of , we
sort of learned as we went and so we
were building a proof of concept
project as we developed the concept for
the wider software factory project .
And so this proof of concept project
was built in conjunction with the Chief
Information Officer of the Army . It
was built in conjunction with the
enterprise cloud management agency . It
was built with soldiers at Fort Hood
and Army material command . And what we
quickly realizes everything about . The
software factory should be well nested
with operational and army wide partners
and that's really a key to success . So
ah , we just sent soldiers up to Fort
Hood to observe what could happen in
logistics warehouses across the army .
And the beautiful thing about the army
is those logistics warehouses are sort
of all standardized . So if we can
solve a problem for one logistics
warehouse , we could solve a
potentially solve a problem for all
logistics warehouses and by monitoring
soldier behavior . And this gets us
into a lot of the top line talking
points of user centered design , which
is really soldiers center design . And
then the idea of the software factory
is taking soldiers center design one
step further and co developing with
soldiers to make sure you're getting
the projects right . Um we found out
that we could automate something that
was inherently manual at the at the
warehouses using accredited def sec ops ,
pipelines and platforms . Again through
co development with the army C . I . O .
Um we were able to fast track a
solution to the field that hadn't been
able to get out there despite the fact
that people have been requesting it .
And as you can see there , the big the
big number about 3500 soldiers hours
safe per per S . S . A . Across the
army uh is something that we're really
proud of . And so we took all the
lessons learned , the good things and
the bad and that informed the concept
development of what became the army
software factory . Let's go ahead and
go to the next slide . So , uh
current status is , we've got cohort
one . I talked a little bit about the
cohort of soldiers that we bring on
every six months . So cohort one is
through their technical accelerator
phase there , through their discovery
and framing phase and they're already
coding solutions to army problems with
partners across the army and these are
some of the partners that we're doing
um cohort two . Uh They're finishing up
their technical accelerator and they'll
be starting their , their pairing phase ,
uh , right after thanksgiving , cohort
three will be here in december and then
cohort four pending HRC S approval .
They'll be in , they'll be in Austin
next summer . So without further ado ,
I want to let you hear from some of the
soldiers and as as they come up and
they talk to you about their projects ,
I want you to think about the fact that
the army did not sign them up to be
software developers , they self
selected in because they had the
aptitude and the attitude . And I think
what we've proven out here is that , uh ,
a little bit of organic capability will
go a long way towards informing a lot
of policy that the army creates over
the next couple of years as we consider ,
like the Secretary said this morning ,
uh , dominating in an information age .
So , uh , Lieutenant Richelle David ,
don't you come up and introduce
yourself to the crowd . Hello everyone .
I'm Lieutenant Michael David ,
originally an engineer officer , I
guess I still am . And uh , I'm
originally from new york and I'm a
product manager on team mocha . Can you
go to next slide please ? Thank you .
And so on . The problem in Argentina
mow cop As it stands today . National
Guard reservists . Uh , they , so
600,000 people who want to apply for
and volunteer for active duty jobs , it
is incredibly difficult for them to do
that . And so me and my team , we
partnered with the G 357 , the Chief of
the Army Reserves and the National
Guard Bureau as well as other hiring
managers across the army to find out
what our soldiers experiencing . That
makes this process so difficult . And
we found is that the existing tool tour
of duty , it's only accessible on
Nipper , which means that most National
Guard reservists can't access it . They
need to go physically to the nearest
either post or armory or something that
is able to , you can go on a government
computer and go on nipper to access
Tour of duty , which is incredibly
difficult even to see what is even
available . But we also found is that
once they do find something that
interests them , the process to
actually get that job is incredibly
manual . They need to physically pick
up a phone or email someone in order to
move their packet along . And this
process takes a long time and people
often give up because it's so difficult .
And what's what we found most baffling
is that the army owns this data , they
own the existing code . And so what me
and my team are here to do is to
overhaul your duty and produce a
solution that soldiers can use in the
palm of their hand . Next slide please .
So our solution , Correra enables
soldiers to view open positions from
anywhere on their other , their
personal phone or their computer uh in
a secure way . they can uh find jobs
that they're eligible for since not
they're not eligible for every single
job . So find jobs that they're
eligible for jobs that they actually
want to apply for and by doing so uh
what we hope to accomplish is getting
uh matching tops older talent with top
jobs in a way that's prompt and
personalized so that we can better
manage the talent that already exists
in our force . And so the army is ready
to mobilize and I will hand it back to
Colonel Eriko to talk about the next
project . Thanks . Yeah ,
So unfortunately , uh let's go to the
next time . Uh Thanks to the Southwest
Airlines , the person that was going to
brief this like can't be here right now .
But what we're doing is we're
continuing the work from the proof of
concept with Army Material Command and
uh potentially looking at how soldiers
engage in the preventative maintenance
checks and services process , which as
many of us I think that are listening
here no , is the lifeblood for how the
army maintains its equipment at the end
user level . There's a lot that
technology can provide um in sort of a
simple scalable way that the soldier
perspective will uniquely inform And so
we have a team dedicated towards
working with Army Material Command ,
working with units up at Fort Hood ,
Fort Riley um in understanding how
soldiers are using the equipment and
then what we could potentially meet
them with halfway as the army fields
larger systems um let's go to the next
slide and let's bring up lieutenant on
on shaw .
So the model of the software factory is
by soldiers for soldiers . Last year ,
Sergeant Major Grinstein asked us to
build a digital tool that empowers
squad leaders . The bluff of our
project is that we've built an
accredited army tool for soldiers ,
personal devices . Sergeant Major
Grinstein kept our charter vague like
Lieutenant Colonel Errico said we're
planning for ambiguity . He simply
requested that we ask what soldiers
want and we build that so that's what
we did every week since the inception
of our team , we've had touchpoints
from soldiers and squad leaders from
Fort Hood and Fort Lewis about what
they need . We learned that a company
of 150 soldiers oftentimes is assigned
only 15 laptops . We learned that staff
duty rosters will oftentimes get lost
in a WhatsApp group chat . We also
learned that a squads day to day
schedule isn't just affected by what's
on a chalkboard at the platoon office ,
but also by last minute appointments
and Taskings . So some takeaways ,
soldiers don't have consistent access
to the existing army provided tools so
they use third party systems on their
personal devices like WhatsApp and
google drive . We hope to decrease this
task and schedule volatility so squads
can focus on readiness and cohesion .
So based on their feedback , we set out
to build a solution with them . next
slide please . Soldiers guided us as we
built a web app that allows soldiers to
pool and assigned tasks , manage unit
events and personal appointments and
share their digital counseling packets
right now . The lack of access to legit
army tools , forces soldiers to conduct
and coordinate army businesses on
unaccredited third party applications
which we can't control and which can go
down to any time . Like we saw last
week our app meets
soldiers where they are on their
personal cell phones and it's still a
work in progress . We still gather
feedback every week and we need more
so for members of the army family .
Come find us at the futures command
Booth will on board you to the app and
you can join the team that's building
the my squad app by soldiers for
soldiers . Our app is built on an
accredited army platform which has
worked on by engineers such as staff
sergeant Polly who's gonna come up next
Good afternoon . I'm Steph Sarah Polley
and I'm the platform engineer for a
software factory . Formerly I was a
cyber security analyst at Fort Hood and
prior to that or satellite
communications And after 12 years of
service , I would have never thought I
would be here working def sec ops
ecosystem for software factory for the
army and our product that we built next
slide please is a sorcerer
and with this product is a credit
secure kubernetes based platform that
hosts our army applications and we
provide a path to production for these
applications . The process to go from
inception to authority to operate was
typically around two years and we
reduce that time 3-6 months with our
product Sorcerer
traditionally an app team without the
source , our product , they will own
everything in the grain on the left ,
which is the build process , the
security controls the infrastructure
networking , but with the source our
product , we handle all that for them .
We enable our application developers to
focus on coding . This is possible
through a variety of innovative tools
such as kubernetes and the use of
automation . I've used this word two
times now kubernetes , not many people
know what it is , it's a very new tool
less than four or five years old if you
have any , if you want to know more
information about it , you come to our
booth at the Army software factory .
Once the app team is in production
teams continuously integrate and deploy
their code as such a rapid pace if they
want to fix uh boat bug fixes and
features , quickly integrating
changes into the production provides an
incredible value enabling our
developers to get software into the
hands of soldiers hands faster
and thank you
thanks to absorb early . So at we're
going to open it up to questions and so
we started getting warmed up um but
before we do that , I want to just sort
of clothes on . Remember those two
questions I I opened with about how
does the army think about going from an
industrial age workforce to an
information age workforce . And then
how does the army help commanders
operate in a future environment of
increasingly complicated communication ,
sweets , weapons platforms ,
information streams and data streams .
So again the software factory up skills
re skills , soldiers who have the
talent who have the desire in modern
application engineering and software
development were institutionalizing
those practices so that we're not just
building this one time , we're opening
it up for the army to build , build
more widely and that's under
consideration at HQ . Today . Right now
we're leveraging modern technology
through close partnership with the army
C . I . O . And the def . Sec ops
ecosystem that the army C . I . O . Is
championing so that we can put
technology to work for everyday
soldiers so that we can actually build
applications faster . And then lastly
leveraging the unique location of
features , command with respect to all
the tech companies in Austin with the
modernization efforts down there at the
headquarters as well as Fort Hood .
Just being right up the road , uh sort
of sort of a perfect storm for the army
software factory . So really appreciate
everybody's attention . It was very
much an honor to be able to go first
for the warriors corner at this year's
A U . S . A . And welcome any and all
questions anybody has . I think we have
a mic in the back for anybody that
wants to ask .
Thank you very much . That was a
fantastic presentation . Should be very ,
really proud of the progress that
you've made with the United States
Armies . Global force Information
management system and enterprise
business systems convergence . Both
adopting and piloting low code
platforms . How do you see low code
platforms being integrated into the
software factory ? Thank you . You guys
okay if I take this one . Okay . Uh So
I think you know low code is obviously
pretty , pretty popular right now . Um
some things to think about for low code
is that there are a lot of discrete
solutions out there . So for , you know ,
the army is a customer's perspective .
It's hard to pick just one and I'm not
a contracting officer , I'm not an
acquisition officer . Um I do think
that the work being done by the deficit
cops uh ecosystem underneath the chief
information , the army , the platform
work that sergeant , staff sergeant
paulie is doing is providing the policy
guidance and the security accreditation
precedent . So that as the army feels
those kinds of things , you know ,
cyber security is sort of a reciprocal
or there's a reciprocity associated
with cyber security across the D . O .
D . Which you're obviously aware buy us
trail blazing a path with the C . I . O .
Of the army bringing on low code
solutions or proprietary solutions .
We'll get through the fed ramp process
faster . It'll get through the D . O .
D . Accreditation process faster . And
so that's another great part that we
didn't really mention is the faster we
can bring on third party applications
that more to the army will benefit from
that as well . Great question .
Thank you . Um you noted that the size
of the cohorts right now are about 25
personnel . Is any thought being given
to increase the size of those just to
kind of increase the pipeline and the
throughput of the folks you're training
a great question . What I can say right
now is this is very much a software
factory itself is very much a pilot and
it's built to learn from , if that
makes sense . Um There's a lot of
lessons to be gleaned about talent
management , a lot of lessons to be
gleaned about technology . And so it's
not until this experiment's done , are
we going to be able to to maybe think
think about how to scale it more widely ?
I'd be interested to see what the
cohort members think about the size of
the cohort . Do you guys feel it's a
pretty intimate experience ? You're
getting enough attention . Head nuts .
Okay . Mhm . Thanks for the question .
I think we have a couple more minutes .
If anybody wants to ask anything ,
there's a question somewhere over here .
Yeah , I veto
over uh the talent aspect of this is
critical . And so for probably for the
cohort here and and the future cohorts ,
they're assuming some individual risk
with their career progression in all
these different mos is to build
software . What's the on ramp or off
ramp for them into a new mos and or
what's the army ? What's the check the
army is going to write to them for
their ability to have a career in the
army after three years of building
software away from their M . O . S . So
it is kind of a problem for my team and
I know it's gonna , thanks for the
question cory . Uh So um what I can say
it's sort of like the last question .
Um we're sort of well aware that
everything that we do is going to
inform the creation or the creation of
new army policy and practices about how
we handle talent . Again the secretary
said this morning we're in a race for
talent . This is very much a part of
the question that you just asked . Um
So the H . P . D . A . Is considering
all options here . Um I think that you
know a lot of people recognize the army
doesn't want to make this type of
investment and doesn't want to lose
these kinds of soldiers . And so the
thought is how do we how do we best do
that long term to your point and
hopefully we can help inform that
process .
I saw the companies listed on your one
slide how can other companies help ? Is
there still room ? I thought you'd
never ask . Um So that is not an
exhaustive exclusive list . That's just
an idea of some of the companies . Uh
so we try to have industry interaction
in a couple different ways . We talked
a little bit about coming in person
down to Austin and doing lunch and
learns or demonstrations with the
soldiers . Uh , what we didn't really
talk about is built into the experience .
Covid hasn't helped much , but we're
gonna get there about 30 to 60 day ,
many internship we call them mini
versions uh , to to vendors or the
industry that's interested in hosting a
soldier for that amount of time . Um ,
and then of course there's there's
plenty of opportunities across uh the
army to connect to you um for for other
things . So there's a spot on our
website . If you're an industry that
wants to contribute to the
collaboration going on at the software
factories , you can do that or you come
by the booth and we'll trade contact
information there and you can always
visit the Army Software factory website
at the army features command dot com
slash software dash factory . Yeah .
Yes , ma'am .
I'll repeat it . Thank you so much .
I just wondered if you look to the
other services um , for lessons learned ,
especially the Air Force and maybe the
level of code works , which I think is
in Austin near you . Yeah . Oh , santa .
Um , just kind of for their experience
and kind of how you're building your
fantastic question . Um I'm sort of uh ,
happy to report um the process that
informed everything that we just talked
about Uh included about 12 to 15 months
what I kind of call a market analysis
or industry analysis and that that
included to your point about the other
services , what they're doing . The
idea of incorporating service members
into the application development
process is not new , right ? What's new
about it is putting building them into
it long term and to invest in the
people component , not just the
technology component . What we saw as
we looked at some of the other services
was that they were doing really well
for the initial service member
involvement , but how to build it in
longer term . That was something that
had yet to be decided by any service .
And so as we were conceptualizing it ,
we were thinking how long could we ,
could we realistically keep a soldier
and build it soldier first or service
member first . And so the soldiers that
come to the software factory as part of
the experiment , the pilot that we've
been talking about , they're there for
three years . So whereas other services
do the 179 day T . D . Y . Uh we've got
a whole whole unit full of people
staying for three years and that will
help lose a lot of , you know ,
ameliorate a lot of the institutional
turnover that goes on a great question ,
ma'am actually . And let me also add ,
that's the human component , the
technology component , you know , the
Air Force did a great job codifying the
continuous RMF process , the risk
mitigation framework process . Uh and
that's directly inform a lot of the def
sec ops um environment of the Army C .
I . O . The enterprise cloud management
agency and then us have have all sort
of co developed . So again ,
cybersecurity comes out to precedent
and reciprocity and that that was a big
part of it . So we couldn't have done
that without them beat .
I'll be your last question if you want .
So obviously the software factories up
and running right . You've got great
initial success . Are you efforting
with project convergence ? Uh
Ridgeway A I two cc five s are to kind
of provide some connective tissue
across the space . Yeah . So uh there's
a lot to say about the connective
tissue and what I would go back to is a
lot of the policy that we're building
um with H . P . D . A regarding
cybersecurity processes . So the shared
services . Uh We're in a we have a
multi cloud offering in both Azure and
AWS the shared services that create um
which is which is championed by the
enterprise cloud management agency
underneath the Army C . I owe all of
that tech stack accreditation stuff is
going to serve as the fabric across all
of the efforts that we're starting to
see because they're all built on the
idea of the more rapidly you can get
feedback on to an operational network .
The more important it is for the army .
So I think we're pretty happy that
we're anchoring that entire process and
serving as a basis for the shared
services there . We can also report
kind of like we talked about everything
that we do is has more than one partner .
We got multi partners for every single
aspect , whether it be platform
application or in the human talent
management fields . Um So I would say
ah there's sort of no limit to the , to
the collaboration that's going on .
Thanks so much for doing this . Um I
guess I'm wondering what's the duration
of the experiment ? What are the
decision points along the way ? Um And
when do you expect HQ d a to to make
decisions about whether to expand this
or make it permanent ? Thanks . So the
experience from the soldier's
perspective is three years . The first
phase is about 5-6 months . The second
phase is another six months and then
two years on top of that helping to on
board and train follow on soldiers
coming in in this emerging technology .
So those are each one of those
represents a decision point for me is
the director is a soldier worth
continuing to invest in . Are they
right fit ? Because this is obviously
not for everybody , not just from an
emerging technology technical sense ,
but it's can you work as a team ? Uh do
you understand what we're trying to do
here ? Um You know software is no
longer sort of like a guy or a girl ,
the hooded sweatshirt and uh you know
your you know your phones in the back
like we see in the movies it's a team
sport and the army's gonna train it as
a team sport and build it as a team
sport which is why we do those small
product teams . Um So people can't
participate in that then you know
that's not the right spot for them . Um
And then with respect to H . P . D . A
far be it from from me to be able to
put a timeline on H . P . D . A . But
I'm I'm hopeful we'll hear something
here in the next couple of months .
Oh God I think one more here , if we
have time for one more , I can't stop
with . Hello , are you hear me ?
Lot of clear ma'am . Yes I have a
question . I saw that you
also mentioned there about design
of programs to losing the field
during soldiers operations , correct ?
Say that one more time for me man . Mhm .
I'm talking about tough world that is
not for administrative task
but for operations in the field .
Okay . My question is
I know that the expert ties of a
person to perform . If you give
it was really gives value to the use of
a prop work but for example if
I asked you , I need to know , I
need to know if
we improve the efficiency , the
reliability of the tank for example ,
which has stopped well about
15% or 25% .
How you can help me to perform an
evaluation so that we can know the
financial um dead
reliability results if we
implement that change . Okay . That's
all a study . You're performing a study
with the help of your , of your people
that do uh develop programs but I
am a manager and I want to know ,
okay , I try to do a test and I want to
know how much For example the
10 , I can improve the reliability
of an equipment that is using a soldier
that have expert tights who use this ,
that equipment . I want to know that
because I want to know the financial
impact , how much money I need to do
that in all the army and I want to
have a document to add the needed
budget . Can you ?
I think I think I understood some of
the question ma'am . I think the
headline is uh that we're certainly
operating not just in an administrative
sense but also in a tactical sense . Um
and that there's plenty of people
around the army like the army test
evaluation command that are working on
problems that you just described . And
if I didn't get it right , please come
to the software factory booth right on
the other side of this wall and we'll
sit down and talk about . I'm so sorry
man , I'm also getting the hook uh ,
pending general Murray's guidance . No ,
and I usually don't make guest
appearances at these , but for these
guys , I will . So um , everything you
just heard was an idea two years ago
and two young majors and we promoted
one of them , uh , put this together in
in two years and that the talent we
have in the army , it's just absolutely
incredible . I was told when we started
this , you don't have that talent , You
gotta go buy it , you gotta go higher
it , you gotta go find it , you gotta
go recruit it . We have the talent .
These kids are just incredibly talented .
And the question you ask is what people
ask me all the time . What keeps me
awake at night that keeps me awake at
night is we have the talent , we can
develop the talent and now we've got to
figure out how to retain the talent
because these kids will make a
significant difference from both an
administrative and on the future ,
future battlefield someplace . And then
this has nothing to do with industry ip ,
This is all about solving problems that
I have walked past for the last 40
years that our soldiers have each and
every day that we can make a
significant impact on our soldiers now
into the future . Just by harnessing
the town we've got . So just a hats off
to . This is one half of the wonder
twins . So veto and Jason zuniga is the
other half of the Wonder Twins and ,
and really it's on their shoulders that
stood this up and it's just an
incredible experience .
Come visit us at the software factory
booth , we're out of time . Thank you
again for paying attention . I really
appreciate it and sort of , thank you
for that guest appearance . See
everybody .