FACES OF THE FORCE MR. DANIEL COWELL

摘要

Daniel Cowell's first experience with Army acquisition was an aircraft project that never really got off the ground. An inauspicious start, maybe, but one that he found to be invaluable. Cowell was working for the Air Force Space Command in 2010 when he heard about a project that the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command was sponsoring. "It was the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), part blimp, part air vehicle, and the goal was to use it for extended surveillance and intelligence gathering," he explained. "It was a high-priority project to quickly field an asset that would benefit the theater commanders. We used a nontraditional type of contracting called 'other transaction authority,' which allowed us to streamline many of the traditional regulatory processes that take a lot of time and resources."