MEMORANDUM FOR SEE DISTRIBUTION

SUBJECT: Army Directive 2024-03 (Army Digital Engineering)

1. References.

a. Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 5000.02 (Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework), 23 January 2020, incorporating Change 1, effective 8 June 2022

b. DoD Instruction 5000.97 (Digital Engineering), 21 December 2023

c. Office of the Deputy Assistance Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (DoD Digital Engineering Strategy), June 2018

d. Headquarters, Department of the Army General Orders 2020–01 (Assignment of Functions and Responsibilities Within Headquarters Department of the Army), 6 March 2020

e. Army Digital Transformation Strategy, 12 October 2021

f. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) (ASA (ALT)ASA (ALT)Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) policy memorandum (Policy for the Implementation of Digital Engineering Throughout the ASA (ALT)ASA (ALT)Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise)), 11 April 2022

2. Purpose.

This directive enables the Army to rapidly adopt and institutionalize modern digital engineering (DE) practices pursuant to references 1a and 1b.

3. Applicability.

The provisions of this directive apply to the Regular Army, Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and U.S. Army Reserve.

4. Background.

a. As the Army is rapidly modernizing to meet emerging threats, the pace of technological change and a constrained fiscal environment require innovation not only in terms of capabilities, but also in the various institutional processes the Army uses to develop, acquire, and maintain them. This includes the engineering processes the Army uses to develop its complex warfighting systems. Historically, the Army has relied on traditional systems engineering processes, which are largely manual, document-intensive, and stove-piped across stakeholder groups. This can often drive cost and development timelines, hindering the Army from delivering cutting-edge capabilities at pace. Greater adoption of DE approaches will allow the Army to identify cost

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