Seven members of the Army Capability Developments Community of Practice captured annual awards recently for outstanding leadership, innovation, flexibility and overall excellence in accomplishing their capabilities development duties.
Harry Lubin, Edward Eidson, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Todd Chesser, Eric Blair, Shawn White, Brad Barnett and Roy Flores received the awards during the Capability Integration Enterprise Forum Jan. 16 at the Morelli Auditorium at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command headquarters on Fort Eustis, Va.
During the forum, Lt. Gen. Keith Walker, deputy commanding general for Futures and director of TRADOC's ARCIC, presented the sixth annual Individual Capability Developer Capability Developer of the Year award to Lubin, chief of the Live Experiment Branch, Battle Laboratory, Capability Development and Integration Directorate, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga. The Capability Developer Team of the Year was awarded to Eidson, team lead, Chesser, Blair, White, Barnett and Flores for their work on commercial network access.
The award program, which was implemented to promote and recognize improvement and maximized efficiency in capability development products, applies to the TRADOC and non-TRADOC capability developments community of practice.
Senior leaders in the community of practice nominated several talented and dedicated professionals for the award. ARCIC convened a review board comprised of several ARCIC senior leaders to consider and score the nominations.
Capability developers are responsible for identifying force concepts, then assessing and documenting changes in doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities that produce force capabilities and attributes prescribed in those concepts. Capability developers perform a key role in the development of the future operationally adaptable force.
Lubin received his individual award for orchestrating 24 experiments within a year, ranging from new technologies and protection, to highly complex multimodularity systems designed to enhance tactical small unit overmatch. His fiscal year 2013 Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments campaign identified emerging technologies that may save costs, enhance Soldier lethality and decrease Soldier load by integrating multiple functions, identifying opportunities to exchange hardware for software, and consolidating and replacing existing equipment.
The commercial network access team designed, developed and installed direct commercial network access capability for its Regional Hub Node-Experimentation as a pilot effort to determine a cost-effective, highly scalable solution for the Army's five operational Regional Hub Nodes. The commercial network access is an emerging RHN Joint Capability Integration and Development System requirement that enables units to directly connect their organic Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, or WIN-T, systems to commercial data/voice services during disaster relief, chemical, biological, nuclear and explosives, national emergencies, or other worldwide contingencies.
Moreover, when adopted for implementation by the acquisition community, the team's solution will save the Army over $20 million annually by eliminating existing commercial facilities, satellite bandwidth and network gateways. The proposed solution, costing approximately $80,000 per suite for each Army RHN, will also support the Army's network convergence objectives particularly for the medical, public affairs and logistic communities, thereby realizing even greater cost savings.
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