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Swiftly Upgraded Open Architecture Systems A Must For New Army Rapid Capabilities Office

Friday, September 2nd, 2016

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Swiftly Upgraded Open Architecture Systems A Must For New Army Rapid Capabilities Office

Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Katrina McFarland

A central tenet of the Army’s new Rapid Capabilities Office is ensuring that future soldier equipment and systems can be rapidly upgraded as technologies emerge and evolve.Katrina McFarland, acting assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, technology and logistics, said open architecture requirements will both keep weapons and capabilities relevant and the cost of upgrading them low.“That is an area that we believe is the future of how we will be able to address threats, especially given the short amount…

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