Failure IS An Option: Army Gen. Murray
The Army must take risks to modernize, the Futures Command chief said, and the modernization effort will survive the inevitable failures along the way.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 07, 2019 at 11:31 AM
AUSA: “God help us, if, the first time something fails — and something will fail — we crush whoever it was … whoever’s responsible,†the Army’s four-star chief of modernization warned today.
“A culture that avoids risk at all costs,†Gen. Mike Murray said, means it takes too long to field new technology, if it makes it into service at all. Program managers and modernization team directors are the ones who’ll have to take risk to move faster, he said. “If we crush ’em, we’re never going to change that culture.
“It’s easy to say we want to become more accepting of risk. It’s easy to say we want to fail early and fail cheaply,†Murray warned officers, contractors, and retirees at the Association of the US Army‘s Arlington HQ this morning. “The proof will be in the pudding, because there will be a failure.â€
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