United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command
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Oct 8, 2026
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
That's going to get a new capability that, that is beneficial to both the field artillery and to the air defense.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
Then you asked about the DEVCOM Armament Center.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
Um, that is at Picatinny, and they're a valued partner for us.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
When we go to industry and we say, "Build us a cannon," the actual armament components, the breach, the tube, we own that design.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
And it's a combination of DEVCOM Armament Center and Water Valley, which is the factory in New York that makes all of our cannon tubes.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
And when we go to DEVCOM and we have a new idea, they're really helpful because one of the things that we're also looking at is our 105 towed howitzer.
Gregory M. TomlinGUEST
It's a very small howitzer.
Joseph VargaGUEST
Um, from there I transitioned into a role with a defense tech firm that was utilizing university technology.
Joseph VargaGUEST
So we worked very closely with, um, Devcom out of Natick, Massachusetts, um, to develop some ballistic armament that had grafting enhanced, as well as working with kind of the AI and, um, machine learning u- to create this armament.
Joseph VargaGUEST
So that's where my interest in kind of, you know, the AI technology, where the industry was going, began to peak.
Joseph VargaGUEST
And so I was at that role for roughly three and a half years or so, um, but really saw the devel- of the industry of AI and machine learning and, you know, where this industry is going and how quickly it's moving and how, you know, through all this advancement in technology and the resources that were available and what these larger organizations and enterprises were really pushing towards, that it lacked that governance layer.
Tom MonaghanGUEST
We're not trying to stand up something new that cuts off other organizations.
Tom MonaghanGUEST
We just want to bring all those assets together, DEVCOM, ARL, ASAL, et cetera.
Tom MonaghanGUEST
Put them all together in one building for a specific project or a specific problem, fix that problem or address that problem, and then break and go back to where we're, we're from.
Fran RacioppiHOST
How are you prioritizing what you're focused on?
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That is what keeps me motivated.
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Kleinbach was recruited by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Armament Center, formerly the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, directly from his undergraduate engineering program at Lafayette College.
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My grandfather played a crucial role in my decision, he said.
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He served in World War II, and his vivid stories of how his unit was sometimes overmatched and outranged by the enemy made me realize that I could put my engineering talents to use to benefit the warfighter.
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Carson joined the Army Acquisition Workforce immediately after completing his BS in mechanical engineering in 2003.
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My entire 22-year professional career has been in government service with the U.S. Army, specifically with the Combat Capabilities Development Command, DivCom, Armaments Center and PMCAS, he said.
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My academic foundation in engineering, which I later supplemented with a Master of Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, prepared me for the technical and managerial complexities of acquisition.
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I began as a systems engineer, which allowed me to apply my education directly to solving real-world challenges for the Army and our allies.
Ian TalleyGUEST
It is unclear whether they still have a contract.
Ian TalleyGUEST
I know that the last I checked, both the contractor and DEVCOM, the unit doing this future warfare contract, were investigating the contract itself, the contractor and the product.
Ian TalleyGUEST
I think DevCom said it hadn't been yet to be unwrapped, sort of trying to tell us that no information had been sort of compromised if there was a potential compromise.
Ian TalleyGUEST
So to answer your question about where the breakdown was, well, I'm not a lawyer, but I can ask the question, what responsibility did the subcontractor have to talk about its ties to a Chinese military entity? It's what kind of responsibility did the contractor have to to report its ties to a BIS entity listed entity? Well, then the question is, you know, is there sufficient enforcement? of these laws to make the the change the risk premium for companies that that don't disclose these types of risks right then there's the question of well is the To what extent is the contractor responsible and is it being held to account? Is the risk premium being raised to the extent that you better believe it's going to check its supply chain next time or not? If it's a slap on the hand fine or no fine at all, then that doesn't seem to raise the risk premium.