During these austere days of budget cuts, Maj. Gen. Genaro Dellarocco, commanding general of the Army's Test and Evaluation Command, seeks to preserve the combat force while eliminating deficiencies.
"Over the next 60 days, we're putting together a targeted plan to look at efficiencies. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit out there that we know we can do a quick study on, change some procedures, and harvest the efficiencies in time and money in our test planning. That's the intent.
"In order to do that, we've got to do things a little differently," Dellarocco said at a recent AUSA Institute of Land Warfare breakfast meeting.
The Army's Test and Evaluation Command, or ATEC, was established in October 1999 by the Army's vice chief of staff with the primary function of ensuring that Soldiers go to war with weapons that work. Located throughout the continental United states, Alaska, and Hawaii, ATEC has about 1,100 ongoing tests everyday in the United States and around the world.
In their newly developed strategic plan, ATEC vows to change their culture by taking a hard look at testing on both the developmental side and the operational side of business.
