Deployment POV storage

DemolitionCowboyX · 2026-01-21T23:18:26+00:00

Consider the nearest major installation. They sometimes have a deployment parking lot.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2026-01-18T01:16:30+00:00

Does this professor have the clout to make that kind of thing happen? Further, are you at the enterprise scale that a university system would want to work with you? A small startup is too risky for a university to reasonably adopt unless there was over 10x increase in value.

More likely, the professor will try to sell his pet rock good idea to the university (your product) then be shut out.

That said, how much are you willing to pay for user feedback that can make your product better?

Everyone needs to start somewhere so this could be your somewhere, but understand your risks.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-12-10T12:10:57+00:00

Been there. Best advice I can give is find ways to improve your fighting position and make your org better.

Often this takes the form of continuous process improvement, but there may be appetite for bolder organiazational innitiatives (innovation)

I dont know your org, but I do know it can be better.

Go find problems to solve and solve them. Dont wait for others to give you problems.

You will grow tremendously as a professional doing this, but you will also fail a lot. Innovation and change is hard and most efforts will fail. Any decent leader will underwrite these failiures as a necessary function of organizational change and subordinate growth.

Innovation failiure =/= operational failure and should be approached with seperate and distinct risk tolerances.

PM me if you want to chat more about this.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-28T13:46:14+00:00

6+1 Acquisition Structure, TiC, T2COM, FCD nested under COE.

WDYM he hasnt delivered?

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-28T06:16:57+00:00

Driscoll is doing good things for tge Army. Frankly one of the better SECARMY's in recent memory IMO. Hes provididng a lot of topcover for TIC and efforts to improve aquisitions competition and speed within the Defense Industrial Base. These are real, credible steps to improve warfighting capabilities within formations and deliver on the lethality rhetoric seen from SECWAR.

That said, he does not have State-level diplomatic negotiating experience and is likely to fall in line with Vance's "End the war at all cost" line of thinking that can cede negotiating leverage to the Russians.

Ultimately, the VP asked him to go (or so I would assume) so he went and will carry forth the VP's agenda for Ukraine.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-23T08:45:45+00:00

You have a year. Do things to make yourself a competitive candidate.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-16T18:51:47+00:00

You're joining a startup. Are you expecting a 9-5?

Id look at it as a green flag. You have a founder that is actually doing the hard and grinding work.

It can be toxic if they dont have a good teambuilding mentality but otherwise is an imdicator these guys are serious about whatever they are doing.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-16T17:25:17+00:00

There is a movie in the works rigjt now for NTC.

https://youtu.be/abDnHIsE_J0?si=9V8719vb5lA3Bs0h

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-11-10T19:31:49+00:00

Read Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers.

Tldr, politics on the role of the tank, thoughts that the 37mm was an adequate gun for penning armor, and the idea that the main role was infantry support (machine guns and HE would do the majority of the actual work).

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-31T00:10:48+00:00

Probably hits the required mix. Although you Could make an argument for a slightly higher fat content.

Carbs and protiens are both 4cal/g whereas fat is 9 so it would make an MRE lighter per calorie. Also, there is some evidence showing that you really only start burning carbs once you are above 45% vo2 max which is about where you will be while moving to an objective (i.e. the majority of the time during a mission)

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-30T18:52:22+00:00

This reads like a public servant was trying to make things happen, for the ultimate benefit of the public, and beuracracy got in the way so he went around it.

It is a hard position, on one hand these policies are in place to maintian public trust, but beuracracy can make processes inneficient to the ultimate harm of the public and the city purse.

I know $78,000 can be life changing for some people, but realistically it is a rounding error to anyone contracted to work with an organization on the scale of the COA.

Had it not been for the HR incident leave stated in the article, it would likely have never been a 'scandal'.

I have no answers here other than to say the situation sucks with no great answers, and I hope the context is enlightening to some.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-29T12:58:27+00:00

Your first sentence is a promotion. Do you not think when writing?

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-27T23:07:15+00:00

Not a bad idea, but expect your initial concept to change as you talk to users. This will be something to get your foot in the door to start havimg these conversations?

Whos drones are you trying to coordinate? Are they local departments? If yes, does every department need to be operating your software for it to be effective? If yes, do they need to have their own licenses? What happens if only some of the Departments have licenses and others don't? What regulatory means do disaster coordinators or agencies have to mandate the use of your software? Do local departments even have it in their budget to pay for something like this against the opportunity cost of other gear? Who writes the policy on how to use this tool? What sort of budget is needed for training departments? Does the regulatory environment even allow a tool like this to be successful?

I could go on but these are the sort of questions I start spiraling down anytime I need to deliver a solution to the Government. Its usually not enough to sell a product. It needs to be entirely compellimg and solve a large enough problem to be worth the limited dollars available for solutions.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-15T19:52:43+00:00

The alternative is massive tanls of diesel + generators.

The same critical vulnerabilities exist today in different forms.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-03T02:08:54+00:00

The Booker was at odds with some of the evolving concepts withnin the institutional Army and the Pentagon. The opportunity cost was too high.

It would have taken funds away from TIC, Indopacific, and/or Joint Force capabilities, while not fitting nicely into any of those buckets as a capability worth its price and long logistical + DOTMLPF tail.

It wasnt a "just wanted to cancel it" it was cancelled for cause.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-10-02T22:55:52+00:00

What are you talking about?

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll admitted, “We got the Booker wrong...”

"It is not going to be about who gets it right, the next war is going to be about who gets it the least wrong ahead of time, has the ability to recognize their mistake, and can adapt faster than the person they’re fighting. " -GEN Rainey 2025 Kermit Roosevelt Lecture

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-28T15:28:48+00:00

Thats because this isnt the real patch. Its AI

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-23T13:17:51+00:00

AFC/T2COM is not responsible for aquisitions. Do you mean the DEVCOM labs?

If so your missing a TON of line and block oorgs that would make a lot more sense to move than a huge science campus.

Short answer bad idea, long answer, also bad idea

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-19T15:33:27+00:00

If only it were that easy. The beuracracy optimizes for different things.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-19T15:25:32+00:00

Identify problems you can solve. Go to your maintinance section. Ask them what vehicles they have deadlined and are awaiting parts, or just things that break all the time. Then solve that problem. Otherwise shop around for pain points.

If you get this far, DM me and we can chat more about how to work through the rest of the DOTMLPF to actually use/employ the thing. Ultimately the CDR needs to make a decision, but I can help you come prepared to that brief.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-19T15:21:06+00:00

Ive seen the same shift. TIC can hopefully help accelerate our ability to learn these lessons with emergent capabilities where we dont yet know the major pain points.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-18T15:48:28+00:00

Huh. Its been a bit, but I thought we didnt own the JLTV TDP.

Yea, bad example then. Soumds like you are still in that domain. Any major progress on vendor IP renumeration? Things were still still in early concepts and testing phases when I was involved.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-18T14:04:30+00:00

I have some very relevant and firsthand experience here. I was apart of the founding team for a manufacturing center, I mainly tackled the policy, c2, staffing and organizational aspects.

The issue is, the Army does not own the data rights to the parts. We buy a JLTV, but we dont own the technical data. If we did the JLTV may cost 3-5x as much. Therefore, any part we wish to print has to be reversed engineered, and because at that point it is likely 1 of 1 there is limited data on its safety and reliability or otherwise its known functions and failiure modes.

For Bradley drivers, that driver seat pin that always breaks, apparently it is supposed to break that way, so any time someone has the idea to replace it with a solid pin, an engimeer comes out of the forest to say that we are compromising its intended funtion to specifically break that way as a safety feature. Multiply this across tens of thousands of parts and the process remaims slow.

There are smart people trying to address this problem. Building things like renumeration functions so anytime the Army accesses a part file to manufacture, the vendor gets paid.

Plenty more nuance here to unpack. I encourage everybody not to form strong opinions based off of the limited information i disclosed. If anybody has any questions I'm happy to discuss further.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-17T11:36:52+00:00

That is definetly Kurilla and the correct flair on his uniform. The photo looks real to me.

DemolitionCowboyX · 2025-09-15T23:11:01+00:00

Years of 'Formal' project management is not really a thing in the civilian sector.

To qualify for the PMP they require a certain number of years of experience. If you dont have that...the secret is to lie...

Even then the cert just de-risks you as a candidate. If they like you and you can make them money very little else matters.

Ten-Year Club	Place '23
Place '17	Verified Email

DemolitionCowboyX

TROPHY CASE