Friday 28 February 2014

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology)

In addition to the duties listed in paragraph 2–4, the Army CIO/G–6 and the ASA (ALT) are strategic partners in transforming Warfighter-required capabilities into standardized, compatible, interoperable, secure, and resourced DM and PfM solutions. Responsibilities for the ASA (ALT) are defined in AR 70–1. The ASA (ALT) responsibilities unique to IT are to—

a. Serve as the source selection authority (or delegate the source selection authority responsibility) for acquiring IT

systems, working together with the Army CIO/G–6. This includes assisting the GFEA lead in the Acquisition IT Program implementation.

b. Direct and review command, control, communications, and intelligence systems; target acquisition systems; and direct tactical IT requiring research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts.

c. Execute the planning, programming Enterprise Email, budgeting, and life cycle management necessary for the research, develop-ment, and acquisition of ISs required for strategic and tactical programs.

d. Execute the RDT&E and procurement portions of IT programs and budgets, in collaboration with the Army CIO/ G–6.
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e. Oversee the IT base relative to its impact on the Army industrial base.

f.    Review IT system readiness for testing during full-scale development.

g.    Participate as a core member of the BSIT-ESG in the role of materiel provider.

h.    Ensure that project managers (PMs) and program executive officers (PEOs) successfully complete developmental interoperability assessments prior to AIC.

i.    Ensure that PMs and PEOs design, build, test, and field IP-enabled IT and NSSs to efficiently use IP address space. Coordinate materiel solution, and IP address space requirements with TRADOC and Army Cyber Command/ Second U.S. Army as required.

j.    Review and approve the Army position for acquisition category (ACAT) ID and ACAT IAM programs at each decision milestone, before the Defense Acquisition Board or IT Acquisition Board review. This includes the review and approval of acquisition program baselines (see DODI 5000.2 for further clarification on ACAT programs).

k.    Serve as the milestone decision authority for Army ACAT IC, ACAT IAC, and ACAT II programs.

l.    Serve as the Army executive architect for mission command system architectures. In the mission command segment, validate Army system views and ensure managed programs develop system views that are integrated with approved operational views (OVs), as prescribed by TRADOC and approved standards views as prescribed by the Army CIO/G–6.

m.    Approve and assign software reuse domains and domain management responsibility, based on recommendations from the CIO/G–6.

n.    Ensure that materiel developers comply with software assurance, technical architecture (TA), AIC, and baseline configuration management policies and procedures.

o.    Ensure that PEOs and PMs comply with AIC policy (chap 6) and configuration-management procedures, and that they resource adequately for systems to undergo AIC testing (see DA Pam 25–1–1).

p.    Serve as the Army’s domain lead for the acquisition sub-segment within the GFEA segment.

Serve as the Army’s system engineer responsible for planning, developing, acquiring, fielding, sustaining, and properly disposing of equipment and services; and leveraging technologies and capabilities to meet current and future Army needs. Apply approved system-engineering methods to ensure the integration and interoperability of all Army C4ISR programs of record.

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