How the Compression of Time Affected the Work in the US Army

Speaker A We still operate we we operate in multimodal time horizons. Our investments for fixed technology, it we're out there many years. Our future combat systems investment that we're.

Speaker B Making now is out to 2025. 2030.

Speaker A Our understanding that the M One Tank and the Bradley are going to be.

Speaker B With us out to 2050, those kinds of things.

Speaker C We're still investing in those kind of.

Speaker B Technologies for the long haul.

Speaker A Because the technical challenge to get to where we want to go with military equipment is difficult and takes a lot of engineering.

Speaker B And a lot of technical breakthroughs to get to.

Speaker A So we do do that for the long term. We're also investing for the short term.

Speaker B On things like body armor, on.

Speaker A Solving the IED problem. So those are much faster.

Speaker B The time compression is really serious in.

Speaker C Terms of things like basing.

Speaker A We just finished a round of the base realignment enclosures and those decisions are out to 2015 and we're reestablishing our international global footprint and that's out there.

Speaker B To the 2015 time frame.

Speaker A In an operational sense, we're evolving every day in terms of investment sense and in terms of a global footprint. We have a much longer time horizon.

Speaker C And our thinking is out in the.

Speaker B 25 year time frame.

Speaker C The Women.