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2 Today's Operating Environment
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... will expand the competitive space while pursuing three distinct lines of effort: • First, rebuilding military readiness as we build a more lethal Joint Force; • Second, strengthening alliances as we attract new partners; and • Third, reforming the Department's business practices for greater performance and affordability."4 DoD and the Army plan to support rebuilding military readiness and the lethal joint force through a comprehensive modernization program that includes hypersonic weapons and the Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC)
From page 9...
... Faced with this environment and these associated problems, the Army developed an operational concept. The concept envisions "Army forces, as an element of the Joint Force, conducts Multi-Domain Operations to prevail in competition; when necessary, Army forces penetrate and dis-integrate enemy anti-access and aerial denial systems and exploit the resultant freedom of maneuver to achieve strategic objectives (win)
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... 13 J Rafferty, Army Futures Command, 2020, "Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team Brief," presentation to the committee, September 24, Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... 18 N Thurgood, Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, 2020, "RCCTO 101 for Board of Army Research and Develop ment Report: Assessing the Feasibility of the Strategic Long Range Cannon," presentation to the committee, September 24, Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... 20 J Rafferty, Army Futures Command, 2020, "Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team Brief," presentation to the committee, September 24, Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... 24 J Rafferty, Army Futures Command, 2020, "Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team Brief," presentation to the committee, September 24, Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... 29 U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, 2021 "Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC)
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... . The committee recommends that the Army use the CpE framework to calculate a CpE in addition to identifying all the traditional Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities and Policy development, production, training, employment, and maintenance costs as part of a common CpE metric to help determine the best long-range precision fires weapons needed to fill validated capability gaps (2.4.2 Cost per Effect Framework)
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... AFC LRPF CFT is responsible for "a comprehensive modernization effort to deliver cutting-edge surface-to-surface fires systems that will significantly increase range and effects over currently fielded U.S. and adversary systems."39 • RCCTO is delivering an experimental prototype LRHW as part of the Strategic Fires Battalion in support of MDO.40 36 Congressional Research Service, 2022, Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress, CRS Report R45811, updated July 20, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45811.
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... The SLRC program directorate functions and specific responsibilities are outlined in Table 2-1. 2.5.1 Army Futures Command Long Range Precision Fires The AFC LRPF CFT focuses on three modernization areas: Strategic Fires (SLRC)
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... b Army Futures Command, Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team, "Who We Are," https://armyfuturescommand.com/lrpf, accessed November 10, 2020. c Army Futures Command, U.S.
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... Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center with CONOPS and preliminary 42 E
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... 46 U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center, 2021, "Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC)
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... Army Futures Command General Technology Research and Development Funds in the National Defense Authorization Act (in thousands of dollars) Technology Maturation Advanced Component Army System Development Funding Category Initiatives-Army Development and Prototyping and Demonstration Advanced Component $180,324 $189,483 $0 Development and Prototypes (6.4)


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