CDR Thomas Gamble

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Warfighter Requirements
CDR Thomas Gamble
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Agenda

• Mission
• Focus Areas
• Environment
• Organization

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Mission

• The Warfighter Requirements Directorate (WR) is
  BTAs focused engagement channel for business
  operations that bridges the gap between long-term
  strategic goals and near-term needs by making
  enterprise level capabilities transparent to the
  deployed warfighter.

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Focus Areas

• Provide the interface between BTA and the
  Deployed Warfighter
• Close business capabilities gaps for the Deployed
  Warfighter
• Ensure business enterprise solutions required in
  expeditionary environments can operate
  effectively
• Provide support and guidance to stakeholders for
  Deployed Warfighter concerns within the
  end-to-end business capabilities

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Organization Chart
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Warfighter Engagement

• Primary Engagement Activities
• COCOM Visits
• Requirements Analysis
• Deployed Warfighter Advocate
• Education
• Liaison
• Sponsorships

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Business Systems for the Expeditionary Operations
Environment

• Primary Activities
• Deployed Warfighter Advocate
• System Analysis
• Architecture Support
• Requirements Analysis
• Governance for Rapid Development

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Business Systems In an Expeditionary Operations
Environment

• Deployed Warfighter Advocate
• Define unique characteristics of the
  expeditionary environment.
• Identify system design considerations to support
  expeditionary operations environment
• Expose design consideration in Investment Review
  and Business Capability Life Cycle Processes
• Summary of challenges incorporated into ETP

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Business Systems In an Expeditionary Operations
Environment (Contd)

• Rapid Development
• Enable faster deployment of critical
  functionality to the Warfighter in expeditionary
  operations environment
• Beginning small with a limited requirements set
• Using a rapid release cycle
• Updating based on end user requests
• Reduces Schedule and Performance Issues
• Low-Risk way to determine level of interest in a
  system
• Reduce investment cost in requirements
  development

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Engagement Process Model
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Opportunity Identification Analysis
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Impact
18 Total Events

• Linking the BMA and the WMA
• Enabled the warfighter to a business operations
  concept

• Bringing business operations into the planning
  process
• Develop relationships and gain credibility while
  adding value

Impacted Approximately 2200 Participants That
Now Know Who BTA Is and What We Do!! 4 COCOMS, 4
Services, 5 Divisions, 30 Agencies, 20Academic
Institutions
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QA

• Audience, please come forward to the floor
  microphone for a maximum of three questions.