Volume 5B - Army Financial Management - U.S. Army

UNCLASSIFIEDExhibit R-2A, RDT&E Project Justification: PB 2012 Army DATE: February 2011APPROPRIATION/BUDGET ACTIVITY2040: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, ArmyBA 5: Development & Demonstration (SDD)R-1 ITEM NOMENCLATUREPE 0605013A: Information TechnologyDevelopmentPROJECT087: Distributed Learning System (DLS)are dependent upon technology maturation. DLS will be executed using four discrete increments narrow in scope and as brief in duration as practical to deliver ameasurable net benefit independent of future segments. Each increment satisfies a set of requirements identified in the Army's Training and Doctrine Command(TRADOC) requirements document and provides a militarily useful and operationally supportable function, which permits additional increments to be added over timewithout having to completely re-design and redevelop those portions of the system already fielded. New capabilities requirements will be integrated with the existingfunctional baseline system as technologies and capabilities mature using system releases where feasible. A rigid configuration management program is established tomaintain the integrity of each functional and technical baseline. The approved DLS acquisition strategy identifies four increments for implementation. Two previouslyidentified capability requirements (Video-to-Desktop and Simulations) are best satisfied by changes to the existing Increment 2 (Networked DLS) platform as futuresystem releases.E. Performance MetricsPerformance metrics used in the preparation of this justification material may be found in the FY 2010 Army Performance Budget Justification Book, dated May 2010.UNCLASSIFIEDArmy Page 5 of 42 R-1 Line Item #123Volume 5B - 396