On 22 April, SE450 (Applied System Design & Decision Making) Cadets competed in the 12th Annual Lockheed Martin Sustainment Innovation Competition in Suffolk, VA. Cadets competed against the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy on a wide range of sustainment challenges across the DoD. Our team earned a third place finish out of the 10 teams that presented in the competition. Their project was Life Cycle Cost (LCC) through Engineering for Sustainment Attributes for Ground Vehicle Systems. The group identified solutions that provide a set of Engineering for Sustainment driving factors/variables to be included in future proposals and their correlated impact to LCC and readiness across the Army. Their solutions will drive how customers propose contracts and drive industry to focus on critical areas such as predictive maintenance concepts, enabling technologies, and data analytics to drive engineering for sustainment at the forefront of the design process. From left to right: CDT John McDaniel, CDT Tyler Einolf, MAJ Matt Young (Instructor), CDT Jack Mays, CDT Bill Boldt, CDT Sofia Micklovic (not pictured) and CDT Trinity Stenger (not pictured).
Follow for daily posts about Lean, CI & Innovation | Continuous Improvement Manager @ Amazon
3moI think that's why the concept of agile development has gained so much traction. It's all about continuous improvement and responding to change over rigidly sticking to a predetermined plan.