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Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute focuses expertise on the transformation of Army acquisition.(Acquisition And Logistics Excellence)

In 1999, the U.S. Army embarked on one of its most ambitious missions to date: completely reinventing itself. In his 1999 statement to the House Armed Services Committee, then Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki called it "transforming the most respected Army in the world" into one that is "dominant at every point on the spectrum of operations." Much of the focus since then has been on revolutionary weapons concepts such as the Future Combat Systems and Future Warrior. The now famous "pitchfork" diagram (Figure 1), which symbolized the fusion of legacy and interim forces with science and technology to produce the Objective Force, became the ubiquitous symbol of transformation ...

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