PPT Slide
Replacing proven Warfighting Equipment with Medium-weight but lightly Armored Cars to mouse-click firepower does not equal TRANSFORMATION!
- "The Army will focus on science and technology efforts until it becomes possible to develop systems that will give desired characteristics to the force." Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki House National Security Committee, Feb. 10, 2000.
- In response to this approach, DARPA Director Frank Fernandez told top Army officials that the [FCS] program will be hard-pressed to meet its deadlines, including whether his agency and the Army will be ready to build the first prototypes in 2006.
BUT REAL TRANSFORMATION involves new joint operational concepts for decisive fire & maneuver, cultural reform, reorganization and change to fully exploit existing and new technology. These are absent from the Army’s program.