REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (April 27, 2016) -- Strategic focus and collaboration were the topics at a U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center town hall meeting April 26.
Army Aviation and Missile Command commander Brig. Gen. Doug Gabram reinforced the Army Materiel Command's Mission Command Alignment Order and emphasized how changes would affect the aviation and missile organizations. He also stressed the unseen value added the AMRDEC workforce brings to the Warfighter.
"The Warfighter does not see all the great things that you do," Gabram said. "Seeing this side is really amazing. You are the catalyst and glue that holds everything together. Thank you for everything you do."
AMRDEC Director James Lackey addressed communication, teamwork and technical excellence as important aspects to the organization's command climate and strategic focus. According to Lackey, the town hall was an opportunity for everyone to gain a better perspective of what AMRDEC does and the great products and solutions they provide.
"We are providing exceptional technology transitions and incredible lifecycle engineering support. Additionally our culture is changing to a more collaborative enterprise," Lackey said. "We have to continue operating as a connective entity. We are no longer working in a directorate by directorate stove pipe. Instead we are raising our heads and looking around and asking, 'how can we partner with different directorates in this technical domain?' By doing this, both our process efficiencies and more importantly end product effectiveness outcome are that much increased."
Approximately 85 percent of AMRDEC's fiscal year funding is derived from customer reimbursable sources.
"We are customer driven and maintaining that customer focus is very important," Lackey said. "The Army values drive who we are and it is our mission to continue delivering on-time, quality products and solutions utilizing Better Buying Power."
During the town hall, four of the five directorate leads discussed their ongoing strategic efforts and initiatives including their capabilities, successes, challenges and future missions.
Each directorates way-ahead lends supports to AMRDEC's strategic plan, which is currently under further development. AMRDEC's strategic map is built on a base of personal learning and growth designed to create a more collaborative culture; transforming business operations to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiencies; developing stronger relationships with customers; and communicating AMRDEC's value as a national research and development leader.
"The Army is looking to be more expeditionary, operating with reduced logistical footprints, more precise, lethal and conducting missions at greater ranges under higher survivability stressing conditions. All that plays into our aviation and missile capabilities as our core functions. We recognize if we don't keep our forward posture on our capabilities, we will fall behind our peers and adversaries. Our reputation is huge, our mission stands firm and we stand strong in making a bottom line difference for the Warfighter."
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The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to ensure decisive overmatch for unified land operations to empower the Army, the joint warfighter and our nation. RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command.
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