McConville: Army setting up 'decision points' on when to leave behind old systems

By Ashley Tressel / October 19, 2018 at 4:30 PM
The Army's vice chief of staff and under secretary have spent the past year crafting "business rules" and "metrics" for deciding when to stop upgrading legacy systems and start acquiring new capabilities as the service attempts to modernize its fleets. "What we see is that the new technology will come in, and along the line, we have decision points, and that's going to help us decide how quickly the new system -- as the new system comes in, we'll stop,...

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