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United States Army Futures Command

October 24, 2023

The United States Army Futures Command (AFC) is a United States Army command that runs modernization projects[a]. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

United States Army Futures Command
Founded24 August 2018[2]
Country United States
Branch United States Army
TypeArmy command
Garrison/HQAustin, Texas
Motto(s)"Forge the future"[1]
Websitewww.army.mil/futures
Commanders
Commanding general[5]GEN James E. Rainey[3]
Deputy Commanding Generals[5]LTG Richard R. Coffman
LTG D. Scott McKean[4]
Command Sergeant Major[5]CSM Brian A. Hester
Deputy to the Commander[5]SES William "Willie" Nelson
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia[1]
Beret flash

The AFC began initial operations on 1 July 2018.[6] It was created as a peer of Forces Command (FORSCOM), Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and Army Materiel Command (AMC).[7][8] While the other commands focus on readiness to "fight tonight", AFC aims to improve future readiness for competition with near-peers.[9][10][11] The AFC commander functions as the Army's chief modernization investment officer.[12][13]: Section 4 [Note 1][14]

It is supported by the United States Army Reserve Innovation Command (75th Innovation Command).[15]

History Edit

See also: Reorganization plan of United States Army § Four Army commands

2018 Edit

Army Futures Command was established to improve Army acquisition by creating better requirements and reducing the time to develop a system to meet them. Between 1995 and 2009, the Army spent $32 billion on programs such as the Future Combat System[16] that were later cancelled with no harvestable content.[17] As of 2021, the Army had not fielded a new combat system in decades.[18][19][20][21][22][23]

General Mark Milley, then Army Chief of Staff, helped establish the Army Futures Command.[24] Its first commander was by General John Murray,[25] formerly the Army's G-8.[a]

Over his four-year term as the Army's chief of staff, Milley, working with top service officials, shifted billions of dollars into modernization programs and based the new command in Austin, Texas, an area known for its innovative, technology-focused workforce.[26] The Army gave the command's chief and the leaders of new groups, dubbed "§ cross-functional teams", the authority to manage requirements and the leeway to direct dollars.

At its founding, Futures Command was focused on six priorities:[Note 2] Long-range precision fires, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, Future Vertical Lift platforms, a mobile & expeditionary Army network, air and missile defense capabilities,[27] and soldier lethality.

Murray announced plans to stand up an Army Applications Lab[Note 1] to accelerate acquisition and deployment of materiel to the soldiers, including by using artificial intelligence (AI). [28][29]

Murray also said he would hire a chief technology officer for AFC.[12][30]

A fundamental strategy was formulated, involving simultaneous integrated operations across domains.[31][32] This strategy involves pushing adversaries to standoff,[b] [35][34] by presenting them with multiple simultaneous dilemmas.[36][37][c] A goal is that by 2028, the ability to project rapid, responsive power across domains will have become apparent to potential adversaries.[38][39][d]

In 2018, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Futures Command would have three areas of focus:[40]

  1. Futures and Concepts: assess gaps (needs versus opportunities,[14] given a threat).[40] Concepts for realizable future systems (with readily harvestable content)[41][42]: for definitions of terms, such as '6.3'  will flow into TRADOC doctrine, manuals, and training programs.[a]
  2. Combat Development: stabilized concepts.[41][42] Balance the current state of technology and the cash-flow requirements of the defense contractors providing the technology, that they become deliverable experiments, demonstrations, and prototypes, in an iterative process of acquisition.[43][e][f] (See Value stream)
  3. Combat Systems: experiments, demonstrations, and prototypes.[44] Transition to the acquisition, production, and sustainment programs of AMC.[45][g][h]

Army Secretary Mark Esper said that the 2018 administrative infrastructure for the Futures and Concepts Center (formerly ARCIC) and United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC, now called DEVCOM, (formerly RDECOM)) remains in place at their existing locations.[49] What has changed or will change is the layers of command (operational control, or OPCON)[50] needed to make a decision.[49]

2019 Edit

AFC declared its full operational capability in July 2019,[51][52] after an initial one-year period.[53] The FY2020 military budget allocated $30 billion for the top six modernization priorities over next five years.[54] The $30 billion came from $8 billion in cost avoidance and $22 billion in terminations.[54][55] More than 30 projects[56][57] were envisioned to become the materiel basis needed for overmatching any potential competitors in the 'continuum of conflict' over the next ten years[22][58] in multi-domain operations (MDO).[59]

From an initial 12 people at its headquarters in 2018, AFC grew to more than 17,000 people[60] across 25 states and 15 countries in 2019.[61] research facilities and personnel (including ARCIC and RDECOM) moved from other commands and parts of the Army such as the United States Army Research Laboratory.[62]

2020 Edit

ASA(ALT) Bruce Jette started xTechsearch to reward private innovators.[63][i] The COVID-19 pandemic led the Army to run an xTechsearch Ventilator Challenge.[65] TRX Systems won an xTechsearch award for technology that allows navigation in a GPS-denied environment.

2021 Edit

On 13 October 2021, Army officials said most of AFC's 31 signature systems,[66] and the four rapid capability projects of the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office would be fielded by fiscal year 2023.[67][e][f]

2022 Edit

In 2022, Army leaders projected that 24 of the top-35 priority modernization programs would be deployed by fiscal 2023.[84]

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced the top six areas for the Army of 2030:[85][86]: minute 43:30  1) improved intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; 2) "Coordination at greater speed";[c] 3) "Win the Fires fight"; 4) concealment[87][88] via improved mobility and reduced signature; 5) "talk often and quickly";[89][j] and 6) logistics.[85][90][38][39][91][92][93][94]

By 2022, Futures Command was conducting the third annual iteration of Project Convergence: experiments and joint tests of 300 technologies by the Defense Department and its allies and partners.[95][96][97][98][99]

In October 2022, Wormuth assigned AFC to work on "Army of 2040" concepts.[a][100][86]: minute 51:00 [90][101][102] Two months later, Futures Command hosted a conference with representatives from AMC, TRADOC, FORSCOM, and Headquarters Department of the Army.[103][104][105][106] AFC is leading the development of a new Army Operating Concept (v. 1.0) for the Army of 2030 to 2040.[107][108][a]

Organization Edit

The commanding general is assisted by three deputy commanders.

  • Combat Development.[117][118][109] Helps AFC commander to assess and integrate the future operational environment, emerging threats, and technologies to develop and deliver concepts, requirements, and future force designs.
    • The capability development integration directorate (CDID) of each Center of Excellence, works with its CFT[Note 2] and its research, development and engineering center to develop operational experiments and prototypes to test.
    • The Battle Labs and the Research Analysis Center[119][115] prototype and analyze the concepts to test.
    • JMC provides live developmental experiments to test those concepts or capabilities, "scalable from company level to corps, amid tough, realistic multi-domain operations".[120][10][121]
    • Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC, or DEVCOM), the former RDECOM, part of the Combat Development element. Stood up on 3 February 2019.[117][122][123][124][41][42]
  • Acquisition and Systems (founded as Combat Systems in 2018).[k][a]
    • Gen. Robert Abrams has tasked III Corps with providing soldier feedback for the Next Generation Combat Vehicles CFT, XVIII Corps for the soldier feedback on the soldier lethality CFT, the Network CFT, as well as the Synthetic Training CFT, and I Corps for the Long Range Precision Fires CFT.[132]
    • Combat Systems refines, engineers, and produces the developed solutions from Combat Development.[133][134]
 
Multi-domain operations (MDO): Friendly forces (denoted in black)[135] operating in multi-domains (gray, yellow, light blue, dark gray, and dark blue)—Space, Cyber, Air, Land, and Maritime respectively—cooperate across domains,[h] working as an integrated force against adversaries (denoted in red). These operations will disrupt these adversaries, and present them multiple simultaneous dilemmas,[c] to encourage adversaries to return to competition rather than continue a conflict.[59][136][137]

Cross-functional teams Edit

When AFC was created in 2018, it was given eight cross-functional teams, or CFTs: one for each of the Army's six modernization priorities, and two others for broader capabilities. These teams are Long-Range Precision Fires, Next-Generation Combat Vehicles, Future Vertical Lift, the Network to include Precision Navigation and Timing, Air-and-Missile Defense, Soldier Lethality and Synthetic Training Environment.

In 2023, the Army announced that it would create a ninth team, for Contested Logistics.[138][93][139] The 2023 exercises for IndoPacom will test its prepositioned stocks.[140] The CG of Army Materiel Command is taking the lead for contested logistics.[141]

In 2018, McCarthy characterized a CFT as a team of teams, led by a requirements leader, program manager, sustainer and tester.[142] Some CFTs also have representatives of U.S. allies.[143][52] Each CFT lead is mentored by a 4-star general.[144] Each CFT can have a Capability Development Integration Directorate.[Note 2] For example, the Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, in coordination with the Aviation Program Executive Officer (PEO), contains the Vertical Lift CFT and the Aviation CDID. "We were never above probably a total of eight people", the Aviation CFT's Brigadier General Wally Rugen said in 2018.[144] Four of the eight CFT leads have now shifted from dual-hat jobs to full-time status.

Each CFT must strike a balance amid constraints—the realms of requirements, acquisition, science and technology, test, resourcing, costing, and sustainment—to produce a realizable concept before a competitor achieves it.[145]

The Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) itself serves as a kind of CFT,[a] operating at a higher level[146][147][129][148][149][150] as response to Congressional oversight, budgeting, funding, policy, and authorization for action.[41][42][151][130][152][153][154]

AFC and the CFTs are expected to unify control of the Army' s $30 billion modernization budget.[155][52]

 
Multi-domain operations (MDO)[h] span multiple domains: cislunar space, land, air, maritime, cyber, and populations.[156]: minute 17:45 [157][158][159] Echelons above brigade (division, corps, and theater army) engage in a continuum of conflict. —This illustration is from The MDO Concept, TRADOC pamphlet 525-3-1.[l]

Partners Edit

Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to aggressively pursue an Artificial Intelligence and machine learning-enabled battlefield management system.[j]

AFC has given research funding to more than 300 colleges and universities[52] with one-year program cycles.[162] "We will come to you. You don't have to come to us," Murray said on 24 August 2018"[53]: minute 6:07 ,[163]

Multiple incubator tech hubs are available in Austin,[164] especially Capital Factory, with offices of Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and AFWERX (USAF tech hub).[120]

AFC will work with other organizations such as Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) as needed.[111][165]

Locations Edit

AFC's headquarters is based in Austin, Texas where it spreads across three locations totaling 75,000 ft2;[163] One location is a University of Texas System building at 210 W. Seventh St. in downtown Austin, on the 15th and 19th floors; UT Regents did not charge rent to AFC through December 2019.[166][167]

AFC personnel also operate in and from dozens of military installations around the country, including:

 
A simulation used to put leadership teams in a situation akin to a Combat Training Center rotation, "an intellectually and emotionally challenging environment that forgives the mistakes of the participants"[168][169] In a role-playing session; a trainer (not seen) must tell the virtual Soldier what the Soldier is not doing correctly. Trainers using this program show a 40% increase in their knowledge of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention policy.[170] These simulations are created at Army Research Laboratory (ARL) West, and ICT, Playa Vista, CA
 
CCDC Army Research Laboratory Neuroscience Big Data: over ten years of EEG data, comprising over 1,000 recording sessions (The Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance)[171]

Work Edit

AI Edit

In 2018, the Army secretary ordered AFC to draft an execution order to create an Army AI Task Force (A-AI TF) to support the DoD Joint AI center.[218][219][28][220] The Army AI task force establish scalable machine learning projects at Carnegie Mellon University.[221][222]

That same year, the Army Applications Laboratory was established along with AFC to help connect Army-future efforts and commercial products and ideas.[Note 1]

In 2019, the Army CIO/G-6 was ordered to create an Identity, Credential, and Access Management system to efficiently issue and verify credentials to non-person entities (AI agents and machines)[223] As well, DCS G-2 will coordinate with CG AFC, and director of A-AI TF, to provide intelligence for Long-Range Precision Fires. CG AMC will provide functional expertise and systems for maintenance of materiel with AI. AFC and A-AI TF will establish an AI test bed for experimentation, training, deployment, and testing of machine learning capabilities and workflows.[224][225][226][227]

In 2022, DEVCOM Analysis Center (DAC) signed a cooperative agreement with Northeastern University's Kostas Research Institute (KRI) to build on KRI's analytic framework, with six other universities on artificial intelligence and assistive automation (AI/AA), to further Army sub-goals ("mission effectiveness analysis, ontology for decision making, automatic target recognition, human systems integration, cyber resilience/electronic warfare threat defense, and assessing autonomous maneuver/mobility").[228]

Software Edit

Futures Command was to stand up Army Software Factory in August 2021, to immerse soldiers and Army civilians of all ranks in modern software development, in Austin.[229][230][231][232][233] Like the Training with Industry program, participants are expected to take these practices back with them, to influence other Army people in their future assignments, and to build up the Army's capability in software development. The training program lasts three years, and will produce skill sets for trainees as product managers, user experience and user interface designers, software engineers, or platform engineers.[229] The Al Work Force Development program and this Software Factory will complement the Artificial Intelligence Task Force.[230][234] The Army has identified soldiers who can already code at Ph.D.-level, but who are in unexpected MOSs.[235] In March 2023 the Marine Corps moved its software factory to the Army's software factory in Austin, Texas.[236]

Data

The Army looks for ideas from defense contractors In 2018, for example, the Network CFT and the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications—Tactical (PEO C3T) hosted a forum so vendors could learn what products might soon work as testable or deployable systems.[187][237][238][239] Vendors submitted hundreds of white papers; ones with "very mature ideas" were passed to the Army's acquisition community and to the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC).[240]

The Army is interested in ways to accelerate acquisition programs. For example, this was an explicit request in the 2019 solicitation for requests for information about Future Vertical Lift.[81] In January 2020, the optionally manned fighting vehicle solicitation was cancelled when its requirements added up to an unobtainable project;[241]

Robotic combat vehicles
 
Robotic combat vehicle (RCV)
 
Project Origin unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany[242][243][244]

By October 2021, experiments with a company-sized tele-operated / unmanned formation were underway at Camp Grayling, Michigan.[245][244][246][247] The 18 light and medium robotic combat vehicles, in concert with surrogate heavy RCVs (modified M-113s), proxy manned control vehicles (MET-Ds), and drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), were to complete ATEC (Army Test and Evaluation Command) safety testing in May 2022[247] and live-fire drills in August 2022.[247][248]

By June 2022, Army RCVs had demonstrated some disruptive capabilities,[242] in preparation for Project Convergence 2022. At PC22, resupply by unmanned helicopters and other autonomous capabilities were demonstrated by systems from the US, Australia, and UK.[249]: min 25:30 [250][251][252]

In May 2023, Army Futures Command disclosed concepts for robotic combat platoons,[253] akin to the Collaborative combat aircraft of the Air Force.[254]

Acquisition Edit

Futures Command works with the ASA(ALT),[255][256] who as Army Acquisition Executive (AAE),[13] has milestone decision authority (MDA)[44][23] at multiple points in a materiel development decision (MDD).[257] AFC consolidates expertise into the relevant CFT, which balances the constraints needed to realize a prototype, beginning with requirements, science and technology, test, etc., then enters the acquisition process (typically the Army prototypes on its own and, as of 2019, initiates acquisition at Milestone B in order to have the Acquisition Executive, with the concurrence of the Army Chief of Staff, decide on production as a Program of Record at Milestone C).[258] Next, refine the prototype to address the factors needed to pass the Milestone decisions A, B, and C which require Milestone decision authority (MDA) in an acquisition process.[258] This consolidation of expertise thus reduces the risks in a Materiel development decision (MDD), for the Army to admit a prototype into a program of record.) The existing processes (as of April 2018) for a Materiel development decision (MDD) have been updated to clarify their place in the Life Cycle of a program of record:[13][257][41] over 1,200 programs/projects were reviewed;[259] by October 2019, over 600 programs of record had been moved from the acquisition phase to the sustainment phase.[259] An additional life cycle management action is underway, to re-examine which of these projects or programs should be cancelled.[259]

Futures Command picks which programs to develop.[259][260][261][14] Each CFT works with the Army Acquisition Corps,[262][263][264][265][266][267] U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC), and Army Contracting Command.[257] The Principal Military Deputy to the ASA(ALT) is also deputy commanding general for Combat Systems, Army Futures Command,[13] and leads the Program Executive Officers (PEO); he has directed each PEO who does not have a CFT to coordinate with, to immediately form one, at least informally.[127]

The current acquisition system has pieces all throughout the Army. ... There's chunks of it in TRADOC and chunks of it in AMC and then other pieces. So really all we're trying to do is get them all lined up under a single command…..from concept, S&T, RDT&E, through the requirements process, through the beginnings of the acquisition system—Milestone A, B, and C.[40]

— Defense Secretary Mark Esper

The PEOs work closely with their respective CFTs.[262] Operationally, the CFTs reduce degrees of separation between Army echelons,[144] and provide a point of contact for Army reformers.[14][144]

Prototyping and experimentation Edit

The development process will consist of one or more cycles (prototype, demonstration/testing, and evaluation,[46][268]) meant to find and discard unrealistic requirements before a project becomes a program.[52][23] "Our new approach is really to prototype as much as we can to help us identify requirements, so our reach doesn't exceed our grasp. ... A good example is Future Vertical Lift: The prototyping has been exceptional," Esper said in 2019.[269][f]

AFC activities include at least one cross-functional team, its capability development integration directorate (CDID),[270]: Para. 2b  and the associated Battle Lab,[270]: Para. 2b  for each Army Center of Excellence. Each CDID and associated Battle Lab work with their CFT to develop operational experiments and prototypes to test.[122]

ASA(ALT), in coordination with AFC, has dotted-line relationships between its PEOs and the CFTs. In particular, the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office of ASA(ALT) has a PEO to develop experimental prototype "units of action" for rapid fielding. In June 2019, the prototypes were for long-range hypersonic weapons, high-energy laser defense, and space,[271][272][273] The Army tripled its spending on speed and range capabilities from 2017 to 2019.[274][199][275][276][277]

CFTs and PEOs order up tests run by JMC and White Sands Missile Range, which hosts United States Army Test and Evaluation Command.[172][8][278][122][279] Test results are analyzed by the Research and Analysis Center at Fort Leavenworth.[122]

CCDC, now called DEVCOM (formerly RDECOM, at APG) includes the several Army research laboratory locations,[280] as well as research, development and engineering centers listed:[270][122][281]

CCDC is focusing on long-range precision fires the six RDECs and the Army Research Laboratory. As of September 2018, RDECOM's "concept of operation" is first to support the LRPF CFT,[211] with ARDEC. AMRDEC is looking to improve the energetics and efficiency of projectiles. TARDEC Ground Vehicle Center is working on high-voltage components for extended range cannon artillery that save on size and weight.[211] Two dedicated RDECOM people support the LRPF CFT, with reachback support from two dozen more at RDECOM.[282] In January 2019, RDECOM was renamed CCDC; General Murray noted that CCDC will have to support more soldier feedback, and that prototyping and testing will have to begin before a project ever becomes a program of record.[123][281]

Acquisition specialists are being encouraged to accept lateral transfers to RDECs where their skills are needed: Ground Vehicle Systems Center (formerly TARDEC, at Detroit Arsenal. Michigan), Aviation and Missile Center (formerly AMRDEC, at Redstone Arsenal), C5ISR Center (formerly CERDEC, at Aberdeen Proving Ground), Soldier Center (formerly NSRDEC, Natick, Massachusetts), and Armaments Center (formerly ARDEC, at Picatinny Arsenal) listed below.[283]

Esper said AFC will reduce the time needed to define requirements for a new program from 60 to 12 months.[284][9][50] Requirements may be reduced to "a simple statement of a problem."[285]: minute 41:50 [286][53]: minute 11:00 [112][287][281][41] The development process will consist of repeated prototyping, demonstration/testing, and evaluation, designed to find and eliminated unrealistic requirements. ASA(ALT) Bruce Jette says the acquisition community should seek to fail and find a new solution rather than commit a program to a drawn-out failure.[288][289][262]

Esper scrubbed through 800[290] modernization programs to reprioritize funding[291] for the top six modernization priorities,[155] which will consume 80% of the modernization funding,[292] of 18 systems.[292] His "night court" budget review process shifted $2.4 billion for modernization from programs that were not tied to modernization or to the 2018 National Defense Strategy.[293]

Budgets will likely restrict the fielding of new materiel to one Armor BCT per year;[294] at that rate, updates would take decades.[294][295]

In 2019, the CIO/G6 piloted "enterprise IT-as-a-service"-style service contracts at AFC. In July 2019, such a contract set up a sensitive compartmented information facility at AFC headquarters.[51]

In February 2020, the Army vice chief of staff said Army modernization was perceptibly speeding up.[296]

This Life Cycle Management (formulated in 2004)[297][298] was intended to exert the kind of operational control (OPCON)[50] needed just for the sustainment function (AMC's need for Readiness today),[288] rather than for its relevance to modernization for the future. AFC now serves as the deciding authority when moving a project in its Life Cycle, out of the Acquisition phase and into the Sustainment phase.[259][23][a]

During to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Acquisition Executive and the AFC commander created a COVID-19 task force to try to project supplier problems 30, 60, and 90 days out. In 2020, they tracked 800 programs and 35 priorities.[299]

The CFTs must balance requirements, acquisition, science and technology, test, resourcing, costing, and sustainment.[145][142][Note 2]

Some modernization work will be done via the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and education, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) framework.[9][300]

The plan is to have an MDO-capable Army by 2028[d] and an MDO-ready Army by 2035.[300][301]

In 2018, McConville said TRADOC, ASA (ALT), and AFC are tied together.[302] The ASA(ALT) will coordinate the acquisition reform with AFC.[270]: Para. 1c [256][23] He also said AFC will have to be "a little bit disruptive" to institute reforms within budget in a timely way.[303]

Congress has given the Army Other Transaction Authority (OTA),[304][Note 1] which allows the PEOs to enter into Full Rate Production quicker by permitting the services to control their own programs of record, rather than DoD.[127] This strips out one layer of bureaucracy.[127][305][306] Middle tier acquisition authority is another tool.[307][308]

There is now a PEO for Rapid Capabilities (RCO) with two program managers, one for rapid prototyping, and one for rapid acquisition, of a capability.[309] Requirements are developed by the Cross-functional team (CFT).[310] In 2019 RCO became the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO).[311]

In 2019, Futures Command was formulating multiyear enterprise campaign plans.[312][175] The planning process includes Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), AFC's cross-functional teams (CFTs), Futures and Concepts (FCC), Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), and Army Reserve's Houston-based 75th Innovation Command. Pne goal is to formulate the plans in simple, coherent language which nests within the national security strategic documents.[312][89][313][252][314][315] By October 2022 Field Manual 3-0 said "Multi-domain Operations are at the root of all Army operations".[316]: § 1-11, p.1-3 [317]: minute 28:09 to 36:00 

A goal of AFC is overmatch of the capability of a competitor or adversary, particularly the imposition of multiple simultaneous dilemmas upon a competitor or adversary.[10] By 2021, Army leaders recognized that the multi-domain operations task force[318] could do so.[319]: min 30:45 [c]

Planning for the Army of 2040 is underway.[107][a][320]

Futures Edit

 
XM1113 extended range artillery round, shown here at a range demonstration, uses a rocket-assist motor
  • Long-range precision fires developments include[m]:[323][324]
  • Mobile & Expeditionary Network[113] / MDO Multi-domain operations[31][294]
    • Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT)[157][337][338]
      • An A-PNT event was scheduled at WSMR for August 2019
      • Prototype jam-resistant GPS kits are being fielded to 2nd Cavalry Regiment in US European Command (EUCOM) before year-end 2019.[268] More than 300 Strykers of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are being fitted with the Mounted Assured Precision Navigation & Timing System (MAPS), with thousands more planned for EUCOM.[344]
      • A Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) is under development.[345][346][239]
        • Low Earth orbit satellites for Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing—"When you look at the sheer number of satellites that go up and the reduced cost to do it, it gives us an array of opportunities on how to solve the problems" in A-PNT[347]
      • ARL researchers have proposed and demonstrated a way for small ground-based robots with mounted antennas to configure phased arrays, a technique which usually takes a static laboratory to develop. Instead the researchers used robots to covertly create and focus a highly directional parasitic array (see Yagi antenna).[348]
      • ARL's Army Research Office is funding researchers at University of Texas at Austin, and University of Lille who have built a new 5G component using hexagonal boron nitride which can switch at performant speeds, while remaining 50 times more energy-efficient than current materials—the "thinnest known insulator with a thickness of 0.33 nanometers".[349]
      • ARL's Army Research Office is seeking diamond colloids, microscopic spheres which can assemble bottom-up into promising structures for laser action.[350]
      • A demonstration of proof of concept allows soldiers to communicate their position using a wearable tracking unit. The technology allows soldiers (or robots) to prosecute a fight even indoors or underground, even if GPS were lost.[351]
  • Air, Missile Defense:[324][331][332][352][353][354][355] An Integrated Air and Missile Battle Command System (IBCS)[356] award, including next software build.[357][331][332] of $238 million also funds initial prototypes of the command and control system for fielding in fiscal 2022.[358]
      • Hypersonic glide vehicle launch preparations,[306] beginning in 2020, and continuing with launches every six months.[359]
      • At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, an FVL CFT-sponsored demonstration of interconnected sensors handed off control of a glide munition which had been launched from a Grey Eagle drone. When another group of sensors picked up a higher-priority target, another operator at the Tactical Operations Center redirected the glide munition to the higher-priority targe.[360][361][362]
  • Soldier lethality
    • Network CFT sponsors sensor-to-shooter prototype for multi-domain battle, 2019 operational assessment. [363][364][365]
    • Night vision goggles thermal polarimetric camera.[366] Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)[367][368][369][370][371][372][373][374][375] The Synthetic Training Environment (STE) is available to some of the troops outfitted with IVAS.[376] Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Army work on a common operating picture will be a foundation for joint operations.[377][378][379]
    • CCDC ARL researchers are developing a flexible, waterproof, lithium-ion battery of any size and shape, for soldiers to wear; the electrolyte is water itself. In 2020 the batteries were engineering prototypes; by 2021 soldiers will wear the battery for themselves for the first time.[380]
      • CCDC ARL and DoE's PNNL are examining the solid-electrolyte-interphase (SEI) as it first forms during the initial charging of a Lithium-ion battery. They have found an inner SEI (thin, dense, and inorganic—most likely lithium oxide) between the copper electrode, and an outer SEI which is organic and permeable—a finding which will be useful when building future batteries.[381]
    • CCDC ARL and MIT researchers are formulating atomically thin materials to be layered upon soldiers' equipment and clothing for MDO information display and processing.[382]
    • Integrated, wearable cabling for capabilities such as IVAS, NGSW, or Nett Warrior are under development;[383] the potential exists to reduce 20 pounds of batteries to half that weight.[384]
    • CCDC ARL is studying additive manufacturing (3D printing) for munitions.[385]
    • Natick Soldier RDEC has awarded an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract to prototype soldier exoskeletons which augment human leg strength under harsh conditions.[386][387][388][389]
    • DEVCOM Chem Bio Center (CBC) is developing sensors to detect contaminants.[390]
    • The Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV)[391][392] is meant to be airdropped for a squad of nine paratroopers.[393] The GM design was selected; first unit is expected at 1/82nd AB division in February 2021.[394][395]
      • A-PNT devices are being miniaturized, with more redundant positioning sources.[341][45]: pp220-3 [g]
      • In September 2019 in the Maneuver CoE's Battle Lab at Fort Moore, OneSAF simulations[396] of a platoon augmented by UAS drones, ground robots, and AI were able to dislodge a defending force 3 times larger, repeatedly. But by current doctrine, a near-battalion would have been required to accomplish that mission.[396]

List of commanding generals Edit

 
LTG James E. Rainey assumes command of AFC from LTG James M. Richardson on 4 October 2022.

Lieutenant General John M. Murray became Army Futures Command's first commanding general upon its activation on 24 August 2018.[163][397][398][399][151][130][131][152][153][154] Lieutenant General James E. Rainey (promoted to general on 7 October 2022)[400] became AFC's second commanding general on 4 October 2022.[a]

No. Portrait Name and rank Took office Left office Term length
1
 
General
John M. Murray		24 August 20183 December 20213 years, 101 days
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Lieutenant General
James M. Richardson
Acting		3 December 20214 October 2022305 days
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General
James E. Rainey		4 October 2022Incumbent1 year, 9 days

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Notes Edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j The CG,AFC is responsible for Force design (in the style of TRADOC's G357,[401] but applied to Force modernization, rather than training).[146] The Army's Force management model begins with a projection of the Future operating environment, in terms of resources: political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and the time available to bring the Current army to bear on the situation.[402] The AROC serves as a discussion forum of these factors.[146]
    • The Army G-8 and G-3/5/7 sit on the Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC), chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA).[403]: diagram on p.559 [146][402]
    • The relevant strategy is provided by the Army's leadership to guide Army staff.[403]
    • The resources are "dictated by Congress".[402]
    • A DOTMLPF analysis models the factors necessary to change the Current force into a relevant Future force.
    • A JCIDS/ACIDS[404] process identifies the gaps in capability between Current and Future force.
    • A Force design to meet the materiel gaps is underway.
    • An organization with the desired capabilities (manpower, materiel, training) is brought to bear on each gap.
      • AR 5-22(pdf) lists the Force modernization proponent for each Army branch, which can be a CoE or Branch proponent leader.
      • Staff uses Synchronization meetings[405]: minute 8:29  before seeking approval —HTAR Force Management 3-2b: "Managing change in any large, complex organization requires the synchronization of many interrelated processes".[403]: p.3-1 
    • A budget request is submitted to Congress.
    • Approved requests then await resource deliveries which then become available to the combatant commanders.
  2. ^
     
    In standoff,[33] adversaries attempt to project protected areas against each other.[34] Within these protected areas, friends are deemed safe, but foes who attempt penetration are endangered by the capabilities of the allies arrayed against them. Outside these protected areas, adversaries compete for control, by projecting their power.
  3. ^ a b c d e Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (November 22, 2019) SecArmy's Multi-Domain Kill Chain: Space-Cloud-AI Army Multi-Domain Operations Concept, December 2018 slide from TRADOC pamphlet 525-3-1 (Dec 2018).
     
    Multi-domain operations (MDO) span multiple domains: cislunar space, land, air, maritime, cyber, and populations.
    • In September 2020 an ABMS Onramp demonstrated a specific scenario, which can be illustrated by the 5 red numbered bullet points from the slide in TRADOC pamphlet 525-3-1:
    1. Competition— No overt hostilities are yet detected. Blue bar (force projection) is in standoff against red bar (threat).
    2. Strategic Support area— National assets (blue) detect breaching of standoff by adversary (in red).
    3. Close area support— blue assets hand-off to the combatant commands, who are to create effects visible to the adversary (in red).
    4. Deep maneuver— blue combatant actions dis-integrate adversary efforts (per TRADOC pamphlet 525-3-1: "militarily compete, penetrate, dis-integrate, and exploit" the adversary); —Operational and Strategic deep fires create effects on the adversary. Adversary is further subject to defeat in detail, until adversaries perceive they are overmatched (no more red assets to expend).
    5. Adversary retreats to standoff. The populations perceive that the adversary is defeated, for now. (Compare to Perkins' cycle, 'return to competition', in which deterrence has succeeded in avoiding a total war, in favor of pushing an adversary back to standoff (the red threat bar). Blue force projection still has overmatched red threat.)
  4. ^ a b As informed by lessons learned in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  5. ^ a b Andrew Eversden (17 Dec 2021) Here's the Army's 24 programs in soldiers' hands by 2023
    1. Precision Strike Missile (§ PrSM)
    2. Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA)
    3. Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) will not deploy by 1 Oct 2023.[68]
    4. Mid-range capability (§ MRC) missile, also called Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF)[69]
    5. Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV)
    6. Robotic Combat Vehicle (§ RCV)
    7. Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF)
    8. Future Unmanned Aircraft Systems/ Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS)/(FTUAS)[70][71]
    9. Integrated Tactical Network (§ ITN) unified with § echelons above brigade, and the multi-domain task forces
    10. Common Operating Environment: Command Post Computing Environment[72]/Mounted Computed Environment (CPCE)/(MCE) See Common operational picture
    11. Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2)
    12. Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (MAPS)[73][74]
    13. Dismounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (DAPS)[73]
    14. Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) using high-energy lasers
    15. Indirect Fires Protection Capability: Iron Dome
    16. Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (§ LTAMDS)[75] - Patriot radar replacement
    17. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (§ IBCS)
    18. Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD)[76] High energy lasers
    19. Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW)
    20. Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)
    21. Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular (ENVG-B)
    22. Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT) - Synthetic training environment
    23. IVAS Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT) - Synthetic training environment
    24. One World Terrain/ Training Management Tools/ Training Simulation Software (OWT) / (TMT) / (TSS) - Synthetic training environment,[77]
    [66][67][78][79] [80]
  6. ^ a b c In Future Vertical Lift, FARA and FLRAA are projected to be prototyped by 2028, with fielding by 2030.[81][82] The OMFV prototype is projected for 2025.[83]
  7. ^ a b c d e f ASA(ALT) (2018) Weapon Systems Handbook update Page 32 lists how the Weapon Systems Handbook is organized. 440 pages.
    • By Modernization priority
    • By Acquisition or Business System category (ACAT or BSC). The Weapon systems in each ACAT are sorted alphabetically by Weapon system name. Each weapon system might also be in several variants (Lettered); a weapon system's variants might be severally and simultaneously in the following phases of its Life Cycle, namely—°Materiel Solution Analysis; °Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction; °Engineering & Manufacturing Development; °Production & Deployment; °Operations & Support
    • ACAT I, II, III, IV are defined on page 404.[44][22][46][47][33]
  8. ^ a b c The Army's unclassified Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept is "the combined arms employment of capabilities from all domains that create and exploit relative advantages to defeat enemy forces, achieve objectives and consolidate gains during competition, crisis, and armed conflict".[48]
  9. ^ The 2020 xTechSearch top ten semifinalists (who will each receive $120,000) are:[64]
    • Bounce Imaging, for a tactical throwable camera (self-orienting, pointable camera)
    • GeneCapture, for deployable medical tests
    • Inductive Ventures, for magnetic braking of helicopters
    • IoT/AI, for hardware IoT AI devices
    • LynQ Technologies, for a GPS beacon
    • KeriCure, for wound care
    • MEI Micro, for Micro Electronic-Mechanical System Inertial Measurement Unit (assured position, navigation, and timing—A-PNT)
    • Multiscale Systems, for meta-material
    • Novaa, for single-aperture antennas ( multi-band rather than 1 dedicated antenna per application)
    • Vita Inclinata, stabilized anti-spin hoisting for pulling injured people on a stretcher into a hovering helicopter
    [63]
  10. ^ a b c Colin Clark (18 Feb 2020) Gen. Hyten On The New American Way of War: All-Domain Operations (ADO)
    • "A computer-coordinated fight": in the air, land, sea, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS)
      • "forces from satellites to foot soldiers to submarines sharing battle data at machine-to-machine speed"
    • "it's the ability to integrate and effectively command and control all domains in a conflict or in a crisis seamlessly"—Gen. Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
      • All-Domain Operations (ADO) use global capabilities: "space, cyber, deterrent [the nuclear triad (for mutually assured destruction in the Cold War, an evolving concept in itself)], transportation, electromagnetic spectrum operations, missile defense"
  11. ^ The Combat Systems Directorate[118] was to be led by the ASA(ALT)'s Principal Military Deputy [125][126] (Principal Military Deputy (PMILDEP) to the ASA(ALT)) [13]: AD2018-15, 6b:PMILDEP will additionally be AFC director, Combat Systems [127] who will produce those developed solutions and seek feedback.[44][128] In 2022, AD2018-15 was rescinded by Army Directive AD2022-07,[129] which in turn is subject to rescission 180 days after passage of FY2023 NDAA.[130][131]
  12. ^ Echelons above brigade (division, corps, and theater army) engage in a continuum of conflict.[j] [c][160]: minute 17:45 [161]
  13. ^ Munitions such as PrSM will need to fire and then move, at targets on the move.[321][322]
  1. ^ a b c d Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Army Applications Lab: (23 October 2018) Army Futures Command Wants YOU (To Innovate)
    • —Adam Jay Harrison's list for types of Funding Authority
  2. ^ a b c d The capabilities as prioritized by the Chief of Staff, will use subject-matter experts (SMEs) in the realms of requirements, acquisition, science and technology, test, resourcing, costing, and sustainment, using CFTs for:
    1. Improved long-range precision fires (artillery):—(Fort Sill, Oklahoma) Lead: BG John Rafferty ... PEO Ammunition (AMMO)
    2. Next Generation Combat Vehicle—(Detroit Arsenal, Warren, Michigan) Lead: BG Geoffrey Norman ... PEO Ground Combat Systems (GCS)
    3. Vertical lift platforms—(Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama) Lead: BG Wally Rugen ... PEO Aviation (AVN)
    4. Mobile and expeditionary (usable in ground combat) communications network (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland)
      1. Network Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence—Lead: BG Jeth Rey ... PEO Command Control Communications Tactical (C3T)
      2. Assured Position Navigation and Timing—(Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama) Lead: William B. Nelson, SES
    5. Air and missile defense—(Fort Sill, Oklahoma) Lead: BG Brian Gibson, ... PEO Missiles and Space (M&S)
    6. Soldier lethality
      1. Soldier Lethality—(Fort Moore, Georgia) Lead: BG Larry Q. Burris, Jr. ... PEO Soldier
      2. Synthetic Training Environment—(Orlando, Florida) Lead: BG William Glaser ... PEO Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation (STRI)
    7. Contested logistics—(Huntsville, Alabama) Lead: Army Materiel Command (AMC) stood up in 2023
    • Above, 'dotted line' relationship (i.e., coordination) is denoted by a ' ... '
  3. ^ As an example, any number of effects can be weaponized (see p.1 The New York Times 2 September 2018 "Invisible strikes may be cause of envoy's ills", describing the Microwave auditory effect), or else countered. Hypersonic vehicles are a countermeasure to ballistic missiles.

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    2. Incorporate 'scientific research into "Appendix C: Functional Concepts" and specify pathways for technology development';
    3. Buy into the 'fail fast' mentality;
    4. '6.3-funded projects to produce knowledge (technical data) that can be consumed by requirements developers as opposed to PMs';
    5. Use 'evidence-based requirements process' (early hypothesis testing) with citations for evidence:
      • All projects will be executed in no less than two increments.
      • No new requirements once an increment is started.
    6. Summary: 'advances on the battlefield requires comprehensive, coordinated changes in the entire acquisition system';
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    • preliminary design review (PDR) second quarter of FY23
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    • critical design review (CDR) in the fourth quarter of FY24
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        1. Backbone layer for data transport downward to the long-range precision fires
        2. Custody layer for missiles' trajectories, whether friendly or threat
        3. Tracking layer for hypersonic glide vehicles which represent threats to the multi-layer satellite system
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    3. SHOT, which is also software, tracks each target on a custody list, correlating each target's current location, signature, and threat assessment, with a list of candidate fires countermeasures, ranked by capability, range to the target, kill radius, etc. "SHOT then computes the optimal match of weapons to targets", and passes the list to AFATDS.
    4. Human commanders choose whether to fire, or not, from the list of fires assets (Nelson notes that ERCA and Grey Eagle drones are to be added to the list of fires assets—currently M777 howitzers and MLRS 270 rocket launchers in the upcoming tests, August 2020).
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      • LRPF: $1700 million
      • FVL: $514 million
      • OMFV: $328 million
      • MPF: $135 million
      • LTAMDS: $376 million
      • IFPC $236 million
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    • Army Common Operating Environment (COE)
    • C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS)
    • Future Air-Borne Capability Environment (FACE)
    • Integrated Sensor Architecture (ISA)
    • Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)
    • Vehicle Integration for C4ISR/EW Interoperability (VICTORY)
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    • Theresa Hitchens (12 October 2020) SMDC Pushes For New PNT, Tracking Sat Payloads In addition to the 3 LEO satellite programs mentioned above, SMDC's technical center is working on project TITAN (Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node), a "common, mobile ground station" for the Army's tactical needs.
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  350. ^ Todd South (20 Nov 2020) New Army research breakthrough could lead to more powerful lasers
    • David J. Pine is investigator for ARO, using colloids of microscopic spheres which can assemble bottom-up into promising structures.
    • Mingxin He, Johnathon P. Gales, Étienne Ducrot, Zhe Gong, Gi-Ra Yi, Stefano Sacanna, & David J. Pine (23 Sep 2020) Colloidal diamond
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  354. ^ Paul McLeary (17 January 2019) Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House
  355. ^ Miles Brown (5 July 2019) Aviation, missile commander addresses workforce CG Todd Royar's statement of his expectations
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      2. GM Defense, and
      3. SAIC/Polaris
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External links Edit

  • Official website
  • See AFC Events for the upcoming events: Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 26–28 March 2019: Multi-Domain Operations. Previous event: 8–10 October 2018 20 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine

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The United States Army Futures Command AFC is a United States Army command that runs modernization projects a It is headquartered in Austin Texas United States Army Futures CommandAFC s shoulder sleeve insignia 1 Founded24 August 2018 2 Country United StatesBranch United States ArmyTypeArmy commandGarrison HQAustin TexasMotto s Forge the future 1 Websitewww wbr army wbr mil wbr futuresCommandersCommanding general 5 GEN James E Rainey 3 Deputy Commanding Generals 5 LTG Richard R Coffman LTG D Scott McKean 4 Command Sergeant Major 5 CSM Brian A HesterDeputy to the Commander 5 SES William Willie NelsonInsigniaDistinctive unit insignia 1 Beret flash The AFC began initial operations on 1 July 2018 6 It was created as a peer of Forces Command FORSCOM Training and Doctrine Command TRADOC and Army Materiel Command AMC 7 8 While the other commands focus on readiness to fight tonight AFC aims to improve future readiness for competition with near peers 9 10 11 The AFC commander functions as the Army s chief modernization investment officer 12 13 Section 4 Note 1 14 It is supported by the United States Army Reserve Innovation Command 75th Innovation Command 15 Contents 1 History 1 1 2018 1 2 2019 1 3 2020 1 4 2021 1 5 2022 2 Organization 2 1 Cross functional teams 2 2 Partners 3 Locations 4 Work 4 1 AI 4 2 Software 4 2 1 Acquisition 4 2 2 Prototyping and experimentation 4 3 Futures 5 List of commanding generals 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditSee also Reorganization plan of United States Army Four Army commands 2018 Edit Army Futures Command was established to improve Army acquisition by creating better requirements and reducing the time to develop a system to meet them Between 1995 and 2009 the Army spent 32 billion on programs such as the Future Combat System 16 that were later cancelled with no harvestable content 17 As of 2021 the Army had not fielded a new combat system in decades 18 19 20 21 22 23 General Mark Milley then Army Chief of Staff helped establish the Army Futures Command 24 Its first commander was by General John Murray 25 formerly the Army s G 8 a Over his four year term as the Army s chief of staff Milley working with top service officials shifted billions of dollars into modernization programs and based the new command in Austin Texas an area known for its innovative technology focused workforce 26 The Army gave the command s chief and the leaders of new groups dubbed cross functional teams the authority to manage requirements and the leeway to direct dollars At its founding Futures Command was focused on six priorities Note 2 Long range precision fires Next Generation Combat Vehicle Future Vertical Lift platforms a mobile amp expeditionary Army network air and missile defense capabilities 27 and soldier lethality Murray announced plans to stand up an Army Applications Lab Note 1 to accelerate acquisition and deployment of materiel to the soldiers including by using artificial intelligence AI 28 29 Murray also said he would hire a chief technology officer for AFC 12 30 A fundamental strategy was formulated involving simultaneous integrated operations across domains 31 32 This strategy involves pushing adversaries to standoff b 35 34 by presenting them with multiple simultaneous dilemmas 36 37 c A goal is that by 2028 the ability to project rapid responsive power across domains will have become apparent to potential adversaries 38 39 d In 2018 Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Futures Command would have three areas of focus 40 Futures and Concepts assess gaps needs versus opportunities 14 given a threat 40 Concepts for realizable future systems with readily harvestable content 41 42 for definitions of terms such as 6 3 will flow into TRADOC doctrine manuals and training programs a Combat Development stabilized concepts 41 42 Balance the current state of technology and the cash flow requirements of the defense contractors providing the technology that they become deliverable experiments demonstrations and prototypes in an iterative process of acquisition 43 e f See Value stream Combat Systems experiments demonstrations and prototypes 44 Transition to the acquisition production and sustainment programs of AMC 45 g h Army Secretary Mark Esper said that the 2018 administrative infrastructure for the Futures and Concepts Center formerly ARCIC and United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command CCDC now called DEVCOM formerly RDECOM remains in place at their existing locations 49 What has changed or will change is the layers of command operational control or OPCON 50 needed to make a decision 49 2019 Edit AFC declared its full operational capability in July 2019 51 52 after an initial one year period 53 The FY2020 military budget allocated 30 billion for the top six modernization priorities over next five years 54 The 30 billion came from 8 billion in cost avoidance and 22 billion in terminations 54 55 More than 30 projects 56 57 were envisioned to become the materiel basis needed for overmatching any potential competitors in the continuum of conflict over the next ten years 22 58 in multi domain operations MDO 59 From an initial 12 people at its headquarters in 2018 AFC grew to more than 17 000 people 60 across 25 states and 15 countries in 2019 61 research facilities and personnel including ARCIC and RDECOM moved from other commands and parts of the Army such as the United States Army Research Laboratory 62 2020 Edit ASA ALT Bruce Jette started xTechsearch to reward private innovators 63 i The COVID 19 pandemic led the Army to run an xTechsearch Ventilator Challenge 65 TRX Systems won an xTechsearch award for technology that allows navigation in a GPS denied environment 2021 Edit On 13 October 2021 Army officials said most of AFC s 31 signature systems 66 and the four rapid capability projects of the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office would be fielded by fiscal year 2023 67 e f 2022 Edit In 2022 Army leaders projected that 24 of the top 35 priority modernization programs would be deployed by fiscal 2023 84 Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced the top six areas for the Army of 2030 85 86 minute 43 30 1 improved intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance 2 Coordination at greater speed c 3 Win the Fires fight 4 concealment 87 88 via improved mobility and reduced signature 5 talk often and quickly 89 j and 6 logistics 85 90 38 39 91 92 93 94 By 2022 Futures Command was conducting the third annual iteration of Project Convergence experiments and joint tests of 300 technologies by the Defense Department and its allies and partners 95 96 97 98 99 In October 2022 Wormuth assigned AFC to work on Army of 2040 concepts a 100 86 minute 51 00 90 101 102 Two months later Futures Command hosted a conference with representatives from AMC TRADOC FORSCOM and Headquarters Department of the Army 103 104 105 106 AFC is leading the development of a new Army Operating Concept v 1 0 for the Army of 2030 to 2040 107 108 a Organization EditThe commanding general is assisted by three deputy commanders The Futures and Concepts Center 109 The first commander was AFC deputy commanding general General Eric J Wesley 110 111 112 41 42 and it was led in 2021 by Lieutenant General Scott McKean 113 The center operates along four lines of effort science and technology Note 3 114 experiments concepts development 14 115 116 an requirements development 35 Combat Development 117 118 109 Helps AFC commander to assess and integrate the future operational environment emerging threats and technologies to develop and deliver concepts requirements and future force designs The capability development integration directorate CDID of each Center of Excellence works with its CFT Note 2 and its research development and engineering center to develop operational experiments and prototypes to test The Battle Labs and the Research Analysis Center 119 115 prototype and analyze the concepts to test JMC provides live developmental experiments to test those concepts or capabilities scalable from company level to corps amid tough realistic multi domain operations 120 10 121 Combat Capabilities Development Command CCDC or DEVCOM the former RDECOM part of the Combat Development element Stood up on 3 February 2019 117 122 123 124 41 42 Acquisition and Systems founded as Combat Systems in 2018 k a Gen Robert Abrams has tasked III Corps with providing soldier feedback for the Next Generation Combat Vehicles CFT XVIII Corps for the soldier feedback on the soldier lethality CFT the Network CFT as well as the Synthetic Training CFT and I Corps for the Long Range Precision Fires CFT 132 Combat Systems refines engineers and produces the developed solutions from Combat Development 133 134 nbsp Multi domain operations MDO Friendly forces denoted in black 135 operating in multi domains gray yellow light blue dark gray and dark blue Space Cyber Air Land and Maritime respectively cooperate across domains h working as an integrated force against adversaries denoted in red These operations will disrupt these adversaries and present them multiple simultaneous dilemmas c to encourage adversaries to return to competition rather than continue a conflict 59 136 137 Cross functional teams Edit When AFC was created in 2018 it was given eight cross functional teams or CFTs one for each of the Army s six modernization priorities and two others for broader capabilities These teams are Long Range Precision Fires Next Generation Combat Vehicles Future Vertical Lift the Network to include Precision Navigation and Timing Air and Missile Defense Soldier Lethality and Synthetic Training Environment In 2023 the Army announced that it would create a ninth team for Contested Logistics 138 93 139 The 2023 exercises for IndoPacom will test its prepositioned stocks 140 The CG of Army Materiel Command is taking the lead for contested logistics 141 In 2018 McCarthy characterized a CFT as a team of teams led by a requirements leader program manager sustainer and tester 142 Some CFTs also have representatives of U S allies 143 52 Each CFT lead is mentored by a 4 star general 144 Each CFT can have a Capability Development Integration Directorate Note 2 For example the Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker in coordination with the Aviation Program Executive Officer PEO contains the Vertical Lift CFT and the Aviation CDID We were never above probably a total of eight people the Aviation CFT s Brigadier General Wally Rugen said in 2018 144 Four of the eight CFT leads have now shifted from dual hat jobs to full time status Each CFT must strike a balance amid constraints the realms of requirements acquisition science and technology test resourcing costing and sustainment to produce a realizable concept before a competitor achieves it 145 The Army Requirements Oversight Council AROC itself serves as a kind of CFT a operating at a higher level 146 147 129 148 149 150 as response to Congressional oversight budgeting funding policy and authorization for action 41 42 151 130 152 153 154 AFC and the CFTs are expected to unify control of the Army s 30 billion modernization budget 155 52 nbsp Multi domain operations MDO h span multiple domains cislunar space land air maritime cyber and populations 156 minute 17 45 157 158 159 Echelons above brigade division corps and theater army engage in a continuum of conflict This illustration is from The MDO Concept TRADOC pamphlet 525 3 1 l Partners Edit source source source source source source Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to aggressively pursue an Artificial Intelligence and machine learning enabled battlefield management system j AFC has given research funding to more than 300 colleges and universities 52 with one year program cycles 162 We will come to you You don t have to come to us Murray said on 24 August 2018 53 minute 6 07 163 Multiple incubator tech hubs are available in Austin 164 especially Capital Factory with offices of Defense Innovation Unit DIU and AFWERX USAF tech hub 120 AFC will work with other organizations such as Defense Innovation Unit Experimental DIUx as needed 111 165 Locations EditThis section may contain an excessive number of citations Please consider removing references to unnecessary or disreputable sources merging citations where possible or if necessary flagging the content for deletion December 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message AFC s headquarters is based in Austin Texas where it spreads across three locations totaling 75 000 ft2 163 One location is a University of Texas System building at 210 W Seventh St in downtown Austin on the 15th and 19th floors UT Regents did not charge rent to AFC through December 2019 166 167 AFC personnel also operate in and from dozens of military installations around the country including nbsp A simulation used to put leadership teams in a situation akin to a Combat Training Center rotation an intellectually and emotionally challenging environment that forgives the mistakes of the participants 168 169 In a role playing session a trainer not seen must tell the virtual Soldier what the Soldier is not doing correctly Trainers using this program show a 40 increase in their knowledge of the Sexual Harassment Assault Response amp Prevention policy 170 These simulations are created at Army Research Laboratory ARL West and ICT Playa Vista CA nbsp CCDC Army Research Laboratory Neuroscience Big Data over ten years of EEG data comprising over 1 000 recording sessions The Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance 171 AFSG Army Future Studies Group 41 42 2530 Crystal Dr Arlington VA 22202 AFC Futures and Concepts Center 109 formerly ARCIC Fort Eustis VA JMC Joint Modernization Command 120 Fort Bliss which is contiguous to WSMR White Sands Missile Range NM 172 also houses ARL 173 TRAC 119 and Army Test and Evaluation Command 174 minute 1 19 00 FT LVN Operations research Mission Command Battle Lab 116 175 176 177 178 Capability development integration directorate CDID 179 The Research Analysis Center TRAC formerly TRADOC Analysis Center 119 115 Fort Leavenworth KS CFT Synthetic Training Environment STE 180 181 182 The HQ for STE has opened in Orlando 28 January 2019 183 184 185 45 p 27 g CCOE Cyber CoE its CDID and Battle Lab 186 Fort Gordon GA CFT Mobile and Expeditionary Network 187 MCOE Maneuver CoE its CDID and Battle Lab 188 Fort Moore GA CFT Next Generation Combat Vehicle NGCV 189 CFT Soldier Lethality AVNCOE Aviation CoE its CDID 190 191 at Fort Novosel CFT Future Vertical Lift FVL FCOE Fires CoE its CDID and Battle Lab 192 193 194 195 196 Doctrine updates to support strategic fires 197 198 Fort Sill OK CFT Long Range Precision Fires LRPF 199 194 CFT Air and Missile Defense ICOE Intelligence CoE its CDID 200 Fort Huachuca AZ MSCOE Maneuver Support CoE its CDID and Battle Lab 201 Fort Leonard Wood MO SCOE Sustainment CoE its CDID 202 Fort Gregg Adams VA APG 203 204 Aberdeen Proving Ground Aberdeen MD also houses Combat Capabilities Development Command CCDC now called DEVCOM 117 formerly RDECOM Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity AMSAA and C5ISR center 205 206 207 the Command Control Communications Computers Cyber Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center was formerly CERDEC CFT Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing A PNT 205 208 209 210 CFT Network CFT N CFT 203 p 5 CFT Long Range Precision Fires 211 CCDC Armaments Center formerly Armament research development and engineering center ARDEC Picatinny Arsenal PEO AMMO CFT Long Range Precision Fires CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center formerly Tank Automotive research development and engineering center TARDEC Detroit Arsenal Warren Michigan CFT Next Generation Combat Vehicle NGCV Army Aviation and Missile Center formerly Aviation and Missile research development and engineering center AMRDEC Redstone Arsenal Huntsville AL 212 CFT Air and Missile Defense CCDC Soldier Center 213 formerly Natick Soldier research development and engineering center NSRDEC General Greene Ave Natick MA Army Research Laboratory ARL 214 215 216 171 Adelphi MD ARL Orlando Army Research Laboratory 183 184 45 p 27 g Orlando FL ARL West Playa Vista 217 CA ARL RTP Army Research Laboratory Raleigh Durham NC AI task force at Carnegie Mellon University 218 122 Work EditAI Edit In 2018 the Army secretary ordered AFC to draft an execution order to create an Army AI Task Force A AI TF to support the DoD Joint AI center 218 219 28 220 The Army AI task force establish scalable machine learning projects at Carnegie Mellon University 221 222 That same year the Army Applications Laboratory was established along with AFC to help connect Army future efforts and commercial products and ideas Note 1 In 2019 the Army CIO G 6 was ordered to create an Identity Credential and Access Management system to efficiently issue and verify credentials to non person entities AI agents and machines 223 As well DCS G 2 will coordinate with CG AFC and director of A AI TF to provide intelligence for Long Range Precision Fires CG AMC will provide functional expertise and systems for maintenance of materiel with AI AFC and A AI TF will establish an AI test bed for experimentation training deployment and testing of machine learning capabilities and workflows 224 225 226 227 In 2022 DEVCOM Analysis Center DAC signed a cooperative agreement with Northeastern University s Kostas Research Institute KRI to build on KRI s analytic framework with six other universities on artificial intelligence and assistive automation AI AA to further Army sub goals mission effectiveness analysis ontology for decision making automatic target recognition human systems integration cyber resilience electronic warfare threat defense and assessing autonomous maneuver mobility 228 Software Edit Futures Command was to stand up Army Software Factory in August 2021 to immerse soldiers and Army civilians of all ranks in modern software development in Austin 229 230 231 232 233 Like the Training with Industry program participants are expected to take these practices back with them to influence other Army people in their future assignments and to build up the Army s capability in software development The training program lasts three years and will produce skill sets for trainees as product managers user experience and user interface designers software engineers or platform engineers 229 The Al Work Force Development program and this Software Factory will complement the Artificial Intelligence Task Force 230 234 The Army has identified soldiers who can already code at Ph D level but who are in unexpected MOSs 235 In March 2023 the Marine Corps moved its software factory to the Army s software factory in Austin Texas 236 DataThe Army looks for ideas from defense contractors In 2018 for example the Network CFT and the Program Executive Office Command Control Communications Tactical PEO C3T hosted a forum so vendors could learn what products might soon work as testable or deployable systems 187 237 238 239 Vendors submitted hundreds of white papers ones with very mature ideas were passed to the Army s acquisition community and to the Communications Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center CERDEC 240 The Army is interested in ways to accelerate acquisition programs For example this was an explicit request in the 2019 solicitation for requests for information about Future Vertical Lift 81 In January 2020 the optionally manned fighting vehicle solicitation was cancelled when its requirements added up to an unobtainable project 241 Robotic combat vehicles nbsp Robotic combat vehicle RCV nbsp Project Origin unmanned ground vehicle UGV at Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels Germany 242 243 244 By October 2021 experiments with a company sized tele operated unmanned formation were underway at Camp Grayling Michigan 245 244 246 247 The 18 light and medium robotic combat vehicles in concert with surrogate heavy RCVs modified M 113s proxy manned control vehicles MET Ds and drones for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ISR were to complete ATEC Army Test and Evaluation Command safety testing in May 2022 247 and live fire drills in August 2022 247 248 By June 2022 Army RCVs had demonstrated some disruptive capabilities 242 in preparation for Project Convergence 2022 At PC22 resupply by unmanned helicopters and other autonomous capabilities were demonstrated by systems from the US Australia and UK 249 min 25 30 250 251 252 In May 2023 Army Futures Command disclosed concepts for robotic combat platoons 253 akin to the Collaborative combat aircraft of the Air Force 254 Acquisition Edit Futures Command works with the ASA ALT 255 256 who as Army Acquisition Executive AAE 13 has milestone decision authority MDA 44 23 at multiple points in a materiel development decision MDD 257 AFC consolidates expertise into the relevant CFT which balances the constraints needed to realize a prototype beginning with requirements science and technology test etc then enters the acquisition process typically the Army prototypes on its own and as of 2019 initiates acquisition at Milestone B in order to have the Acquisition Executive with the concurrence of the Army Chief of Staff decide on production as a Program of Record at Milestone C 258 Next refine the prototype to address the factors needed to pass the Milestone decisions A B and C which require Milestone decision authority MDA in an acquisition process 258 This consolidation of expertise thus reduces the risks in a Materiel development decision MDD for the Army to admit a prototype into a program of record The existing processes as of April 2018 for a Materiel development decision MDD have been updated to clarify their place in the Life Cycle of a program of record 13 257 41 over 1 200 programs projects were reviewed 259 by October 2019 over 600 programs of record had been moved from the acquisition phase to the sustainment phase 259 An additional life cycle management action is underway to re examine which of these projects or programs should be cancelled 259 Futures Command picks which programs to develop 259 260 261 14 Each CFT works with the Army Acquisition Corps 262 263 264 265 266 267 U S Army Acquisition Support Center USAASC and Army Contracting Command 257 The Principal Military Deputy to the ASA ALT is also deputy commanding general for Combat Systems Army Futures Command 13 and leads the Program Executive Officers PEO he has directed each PEO who does not have a CFT to coordinate with to immediately form one at least informally 127 The current acquisition system has pieces all throughout the Army There s chunks of it in TRADOC and chunks of it in AMC and then other pieces So really all we re trying to do is get them all lined up under a single command from concept S amp T RDT amp E through the requirements process through the beginnings of the acquisition system Milestone A B and C 40 Defense Secretary Mark Esper The PEOs work closely with their respective CFTs 262 Operationally the CFTs reduce degrees of separation between Army echelons 144 and provide a point of contact for Army reformers 14 144 Prototyping and experimentation Edit The development process will consist of one or more cycles prototype demonstration testing and evaluation 46 268 meant to find and discard unrealistic requirements before a project becomes a program 52 23 Our new approach is really to prototype as much as we can to help us identify requirements so our reach doesn t exceed our grasp A good example is Future Vertical Lift The prototyping has been exceptional Esper said in 2019 269 f AFC activities include at least one cross functional team its capability development integration directorate CDID 270 Para 2b and the associated Battle Lab 270 Para 2b for each Army Center of Excellence Each CDID and associated Battle Lab work with their CFT to develop operational experiments and prototypes to test 122 ASA ALT in coordination with AFC has dotted line relationships between its PEOs and the CFTs In particular the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office of ASA ALT has a PEO to develop experimental prototype units of action for rapid fielding In June 2019 the prototypes were for long range hypersonic weapons high energy laser defense and space 271 272 273 The Army tripled its spending on speed and range capabilities from 2017 to 2019 274 199 275 276 277 CFTs and PEOs order up tests run by JMC and White Sands Missile Range which hosts United States Army Test and Evaluation Command 172 8 278 122 279 Test results are analyzed by the Research and Analysis Center at Fort Leavenworth 122 CCDC now called DEVCOM formerly RDECOM at APG includes the several Army research laboratory locations 280 as well as research development and engineering centers listed 270 122 281 CCDC is focusing on long range precision fires the six RDECs and the Army Research Laboratory As of September 2018 RDECOM s concept of operation is first to support the LRPF CFT 211 with ARDEC AMRDEC is looking to improve the energetics and efficiency of projectiles TARDEC Ground Vehicle Center is working on high voltage components for extended range cannon artillery that save on size and weight 211 Two dedicated RDECOM people support the LRPF CFT with reachback support from two dozen more at RDECOM 282 In January 2019 RDECOM was renamed CCDC General Murray noted that CCDC will have to support more soldier feedback and that prototyping and testing will have to begin before a project ever becomes a program of record 123 281 Acquisition specialists are being encouraged to accept lateral transfers to RDECs where their skills are needed Ground Vehicle Systems Center formerly TARDEC at Detroit Arsenal Michigan Aviation and Missile Center formerly AMRDEC at Redstone Arsenal C5ISR Center formerly CERDEC at Aberdeen Proving Ground Soldier Center formerly NSRDEC Natick Massachusetts and Armaments Center formerly ARDEC at Picatinny Arsenal listed below 283 Esper said AFC will reduce the time needed to define requirements for a new program from 60 to 12 months 284 9 50 Requirements may be reduced to a simple statement of a problem 285 minute 41 50 286 53 minute 11 00 112 287 281 41 The development process will consist of repeated prototyping demonstration testing and evaluation designed to find and eliminated unrealistic requirements ASA ALT Bruce Jette says the acquisition community should seek to fail and find a new solution rather than commit a program to a drawn out failure 288 289 262 Esper scrubbed through 800 290 modernization programs to reprioritize funding 291 for the top six modernization priorities 155 which will consume 80 of the modernization funding 292 of 18 systems 292 His night court budget review process shifted 2 4 billion for modernization from programs that were not tied to modernization or to the 2018 National Defense Strategy 293 Budgets will likely restrict the fielding of new materiel to one Armor BCT per year 294 at that rate updates would take decades 294 295 In 2019 the CIO G6 piloted enterprise IT as a service style service contracts at AFC In July 2019 such a contract set up a sensitive compartmented information facility at AFC headquarters 51 In February 2020 the Army vice chief of staff said Army modernization was perceptibly speeding up 296 This Life Cycle Management formulated in 2004 297 298 was intended to exert the kind of operational control OPCON 50 needed just for the sustainment function AMC s need for Readiness today 288 rather than for its relevance to modernization for the future AFC now serves as the deciding authority when moving a project in its Life Cycle out of the Acquisition phase and into the Sustainment phase 259 23 a During to the COVID 19 pandemic the Acquisition Executive and the AFC commander created a COVID 19 task force to try to project supplier problems 30 60 and 90 days out In 2020 they tracked 800 programs and 35 priorities 299 The CFTs must balance requirements acquisition science and technology test resourcing costing and sustainment 145 142 Note 2 Some modernization work will be done via the Doctrine Organization Training Materiel Leadership and education Personnel and Facilities DOTMLPF framework 9 300 The plan is to have an MDO capable Army by 2028 d and an MDO ready Army by 2035 300 301 In 2018 McConville said TRADOC ASA ALT and AFC are tied together 302 The ASA ALT will coordinate the acquisition reform with AFC 270 Para 1c 256 23 He also said AFC will have to be a little bit disruptive to institute reforms within budget in a timely way 303 Congress has given the Army Other Transaction Authority OTA 304 Note 1 which allows the PEOs to enter into Full Rate Production quicker by permitting the services to control their own programs of record rather than DoD 127 This strips out one layer of bureaucracy 127 305 306 Middle tier acquisition authority is another tool 307 308 There is now a PEO for Rapid Capabilities RCO with two program managers one for rapid prototyping and one for rapid acquisition of a capability 309 Requirements are developed by the Cross functional team CFT 310 In 2019 RCO became the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office RCCTO 311 In 2019 Futures Command was formulating multiyear enterprise campaign plans 312 175 The planning process includes Army Test and Evaluation Command ATEC AFC s cross functional teams CFTs Futures and Concepts FCC Combat Capabilities Development Command CCDC and Army Reserve s Houston based 75th Innovation Command Pne goal is to formulate the plans in simple coherent language which nests within the national security strategic documents 312 89 313 252 314 315 By October 2022 Field Manual 3 0 said Multi domain Operations are at the root of all Army operations 316 1 11 p 1 3 317 minute 28 09 to 36 00 A goal of AFC is overmatch of the capability of a competitor or adversary particularly the imposition of multiple simultaneous dilemmas upon a competitor or adversary 10 By 2021 Army leaders recognized that the multi domain operations task force 318 could do so 319 min 30 45 c Planning for the Army of 2040 is underway 107 a 320 Futures Edit nbsp XM1113 extended range artillery round shown here at a range demonstration uses a rocket assist motorLong range precision fires developments include m 323 324 Hypersonic materiel development 274 the Strategic long range cannon SLRC for a hypersonic projectile 325 326 is meant to have a range up to 1 000 nautical miles 327 An early ballistic test took place at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren as announced at AUSA in October 2019 327 328 ERCA development at Picatinny Arsenal evaluate several manufacturing technologies tied to the XM1113 munition 329 330 Targeting with thousand mile missiles 276 199 196 331 332 streamlining the sensor shooter link at every echelon BG 333 John Rafferty 199 in Integrated fire 334 335 336 Mobile amp Expeditionary Network 113 MDO Multi domain operations 31 294 Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing A PNT 157 337 338 An A PNT event was scheduled at WSMR for August 2019 45 pp220 3 g 339 340 341 45 pp220 1 g 342 343 Prototype jam resistant GPS kits are being fielded to 2nd Cavalry Regiment in US European Command EUCOM before year end 2019 268 More than 300 Strykers of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are being fitted with the Mounted Assured Precision Navigation amp Timing System MAPS with thousands more planned for EUCOM 344 A Modular Open Systems Approach MOSA to Positioning Navigation and Timing PNT is under development 345 346 239 Low Earth orbit satellites for Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing When you look at the sheer number of satellites that go up and the reduced cost to do it it gives us an array of opportunities on how to solve the problems in A PNT 347 ARL researchers have proposed and demonstrated a way for small ground based robots with mounted antennas to configure phased arrays a technique which usually takes a static laboratory to develop Instead the researchers used robots to covertly create and focus a highly directional parasitic array see Yagi antenna 348 ARL s Army Research Office is funding researchers at University of Texas at Austin and University of Lille who have built a new 5G component using hexagonal boron nitride which can switch at performant speeds while remaining 50 times more energy efficient than current materials the thinnest known insulator with a thickness of 0 33 nanometers 349 ARL s Army Research Office is seeking diamond colloids microscopic spheres which can assemble bottom up into promising structures for laser action 350 A demonstration of proof of concept allows soldiers to communicate their position using a wearable tracking unit The technology allows soldiers or robots to prosecute a fight even indoors or underground even if GPS were lost 351 Air Missile Defense 324 331 332 352 353 354 355 An Integrated Air and Missile Battle Command System IBCS 356 award including next software build 357 331 332 of 238 million also funds initial prototypes of the command and control system for fielding in fiscal 2022 358 Hypersonic glide vehicle launch preparations 306 beginning in 2020 and continuing with launches every six months 359 At Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake an FVL CFT sponsored demonstration of interconnected sensors handed off control of a glide munition which had been launched from a Grey Eagle drone When another group of sensors picked up a higher priority target another operator at the Tactical Operations Center redirected the glide munition to the higher priority targe 360 361 362 Soldier lethality Network CFT sponsors sensor to shooter prototype for multi domain battle 2019 operational assessment 363 364 365 Night vision goggles thermal polarimetric camera 366 Integrated Visual Augmentation System IVAS 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 The Synthetic Training Environment STE is available to some of the troops outfitted with IVAS 376 Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Army work on a common operating picture will be a foundation for joint operations 377 378 379 CCDC ARL researchers are developing a flexible waterproof lithium ion battery of any size and shape for soldiers to wear the electrolyte is water itself In 2020 the batteries were engineering prototypes by 2021 soldiers will wear the battery for themselves for the first time 380 CCDC ARL and DoE s PNNL are examining the solid electrolyte interphase SEI as it first forms during the initial charging of a Lithium ion battery They have found an inner SEI thin dense and inorganic most likely lithium oxide between the copper electrode and an outer SEI which is organic and permeable a finding which will be useful when building future batteries 381 CCDC ARL and MIT researchers are formulating atomically thin materials to be layered upon soldiers equipment and clothing for MDO information display and processing 382 Integrated wearable cabling for capabilities such as IVAS NGSW or Nett Warrior are under development 383 the potential exists to reduce 20 pounds of batteries to half that weight 384 CCDC ARL is studying additive manufacturing 3D printing for munitions 385 Natick Soldier RDEC has awarded an Other Transaction Authority OTA contract to prototype soldier exoskeletons which augment human leg strength under harsh conditions 386 387 388 389 DEVCOM Chem Bio Center CBC is developing sensors to detect contaminants 390 The Infantry Squad Vehicle ISV 391 392 is meant to be airdropped for a squad of nine paratroopers 393 The GM design was selected first unit is expected at 1 82nd AB division in February 2021 394 395 A PNT devices are being miniaturized with more redundant positioning sources 341 45 pp220 3 g In September 2019 in the Maneuver CoE s Battle Lab at Fort Moore OneSAF simulations 396 of a platoon augmented by UAS drones ground robots and AI were able to dislodge a defending force 3 times larger repeatedly But by current doctrine a near battalion would have been required to accomplish that mission 396 List of commanding generals Edit nbsp LTG James E Rainey assumes command of AFC from LTG James M Richardson on 4 October 2022 Lieutenant General John M Murray became Army Futures Command s first commanding general upon its activation on 24 August 2018 163 397 398 399 151 130 131 152 153 154 Lieutenant General James E Rainey promoted to general on 7 October 2022 400 became AFC s second commanding general on 4 October 2022 a No Portrait Name and rank Took office Left office Term length1 nbsp GeneralJohn M Murray24 August 20183 December 20213 years 101 days nbsp Lieutenant GeneralJames M RichardsonActing3 December 20214 October 2022305 days2 nbsp GeneralJames E Rainey4 October 2022Incumbent1 year 9 daysSee also EditMilitary acquisition In the United States Military budget of the United States Command systems in the United States Army Air and Missile Defense Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center Soldier Lethality Manhattan Project Space Warfighting Analysis CenterNotes Edit a b c d e f g h i j The CG AFC is responsible for Force design in the style of TRADOC s G357 401 but applied to Force modernization rather than training 146 The Army s Force management model begins with a projection of the Future operating environment in terms of resources political military economic social information infrastructure physical environment and the time available to bring the Current army to bear on the situation 402 The AROC serves as a discussion forum of these factors 146 The Army G 8 and G 3 5 7 sit on the Army Requirements Oversight Council AROC chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Army CSA 403 diagram on p 559 146 402 The relevant strategy is provided by the Army s leadership to guide Army staff 403 The resources are dictated by Congress 402 A DOTMLPF analysis models the factors necessary to change the Current force into a relevant Future force A JCIDS ACIDS 404 process identifies the gaps in capability between Current and Future force A Force design to meet the materiel gaps is underway An organization with the desired capabilities manpower materiel training is brought to bear on each gap AR 5 22 pdf lists the Force modernization proponent for each Army branch which can be a CoE or Branch proponent leader Staff uses Synchronization meetings 405 minute 8 29 before seeking approval HTAR Force Management 3 2b Managing change in any large complex organization requires the synchronization of many interrelated processes 403 p 3 1 A budget request is submitted to Congress Approved requests then await resource deliveries which then become available to the combatant commanders nbsp In standoff 33 adversaries attempt to project protected areas against each other 34 Within these protected areas friends are deemed safe but foes who attempt penetration are endangered by the capabilities of the allies arrayed against them Outside these protected areas adversaries compete for control by projecting their power a b c d e Sydney J Freedberg Jr November 22 2019 SecArmy s Multi Domain Kill Chain Space Cloud AI Army Multi Domain Operations Concept December 2018 slide from TRADOC pamphlet 525 3 1 Dec 2018 nbsp Multi domain operations MDO span multiple domains cislunar space land air maritime cyber and populations In September 2020 an ABMS Onramp demonstrated a specific scenario which can be illustrated by the 5 red numbered bullet points from the slide in TRADOC pamphlet 525 3 1 Competition No overt hostilities are yet detected Blue bar force projection is in standoff against red bar threat Strategic Support area National assets blue detect breaching of standoff by adversary in red Close area support blue assets hand off to the combatant commands who are to create effects visible to the adversary in red Deep maneuver blue combatant actions dis integrate adversary efforts per TRADOC pamphlet 525 3 1 militarily compete penetrate dis integrate and exploit the adversary Operational and Strategic deep fires create effects on the adversary Adversary is further subject to defeat in detail until adversaries perceive they are overmatched no more red assets to expend Adversary retreats to standoff The populations perceive that the adversary is defeated for now Compare to Perkins cycle return to competition in which deterrence has succeeded in avoiding a total war in favor of pushing an adversary back to standoff the red threat bar Blue force projection still has overmatched red threat a b As informed by lessons learned in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine a b Andrew Eversden 17 Dec 2021 Here s the Army s 24 programs in soldiers hands by 2023 Precision Strike Missile PrSM Extended Range Cannon Artillery ERCA Long Range Hypersonic Weapon LRHW will not deploy by 1 Oct 2023 68 Mid range capability MRC missile also called Strategic Mid Range Fires SMRF 69 Armored Multi Purpose Vehicle AMPV Robotic Combat Vehicle RCV Mobile Protected Firepower MPF Future Unmanned Aircraft Systems Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System FUAS FTUAS 70 71 Integrated Tactical Network ITN unified with echelons above brigade and the multi domain task forces Common Operating Environment Command Post Computing Environment 72 Mounted Computed Environment CPCE MCE See Common operational picture Command Post Integrated Infrastructure CPI2 Mounted Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing System MAPS 73 74 Dismounted Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing System DAPS 73 Maneuver Short Range Air Defense M SHORAD using high energy lasers Indirect Fires Protection Capability Iron Dome Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor LTAMDS 75 Patriot radar replacement Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense IBCS Directed Energy Maneuver Short Range Air Defense DE M SHORAD 76 High energy lasers Next Generation Squad Weapon NGSW Integrated Visual Augmentation System IVAS Enhanced Night Vision Goggle Binocular ENVG B Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer RVCT Synthetic training environment IVAS Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer SiVT Synthetic training environment One World Terrain Training Management Tools Training Simulation Software OWT TMT TSS Synthetic training environment 77 66 67 78 79 80 a b c In Future Vertical Lift FARA and FLRAA are projected to be prototyped by 2028 with fielding by 2030 81 82 The OMFV prototype is projected for 2025 83 a b c d e f ASA ALT 2018 Weapon Systems Handbook update Page 32 lists how the Weapon Systems Handbook is organized 440 pages By Modernization priority By Acquisition or Business System category ACAT or BSC The Weapon systems in each ACAT are sorted alphabetically by Weapon system name Each weapon system might also be in several variants Lettered a weapon system s variants might be severally and simultaneously in the following phases of its Life Cycle namely Materiel Solution Analysis Technology Maturation amp Risk Reduction Engineering amp Manufacturing Development Production amp Deployment Operations amp Support ACAT I II III IV are defined on page 404 44 22 46 47 33 a b c The Army s unclassified Multi Domain Operations MDO concept is the combined arms employment of capabilities from all domains that create and exploit relative advantages to defeat enemy forces achieve objectives and consolidate gains during competition crisis and armed conflict 48 The 2020 xTechSearch top ten semifinalists who will each receive 120 000 are 64 Bounce Imaging for a tactical throwable camera self orienting pointable camera GeneCapture for deployable medical tests Inductive Ventures for magnetic braking of helicopters IoT AI for hardware IoT AI devices LynQ Technologies for a GPS beacon KeriCure for wound care MEI Micro for Micro Electronic Mechanical System Inertial Measurement Unit assured position navigation and timing A PNT Multiscale Systems for meta material Novaa for single aperture antennas multi band rather than 1 dedicated antenna per application Vita Inclinata stabilized anti spin hoisting for pulling injured people on a stretcher into a hovering helicopter 63 a b c Colin Clark 18 Feb 2020 Gen Hyten On The New American Way of War All Domain Operations ADO A computer coordinated fight in the air land sea space cyber and the electromagnetic spectrum EMS forces from satellites to foot soldiers to submarines sharing battle data at machine to machine speed it s the ability to integrate and effectively command and control all domains in a conflict or in a crisis seamlessly Gen Hyten Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs All Domain Operations ADO use global capabilities space cyber deterrent the nuclear triad for mutually assured destruction in the Cold War an evolving concept in itself transportation electromagnetic spectrum operations missile defense The Combat Systems Directorate 118 was to be led by the ASA ALT s Principal Military Deputy 125 126 Principal Military Deputy PMILDEP to the ASA ALT 13 AD2018 15 6b PMILDEP will additionally be AFC director Combat Systems 127 who will produce those developed solutions and seek feedback 44 128 In 2022 AD2018 15 was rescinded by Army Directive AD2022 07 129 which in turn is subject to rescission 180 days after passage of FY2023 NDAA 130 131 Echelons above brigade division corps and theater army engage in a continuum of conflict j c 160 minute 17 45 161 Munitions such as PrSM will need to fire and then move at targets on the move 321 322 a b c d Sydney J Freedberg Jr Army Applications Lab 23 October 2018 Army Futures Command Wants YOU To Innovate Adam Jay Harrison s list for types of Funding Authority a b c d The capabilities as prioritized by the Chief of Staff will use subject matter experts SMEs in the realms of requirements acquisition science and technology test resourcing costing and sustainment using CFTs for Improved long range precision fires artillery Fort Sill Oklahoma Lead BG John Rafferty PEO Ammunition AMMO Next Generation Combat Vehicle Detroit Arsenal Warren Michigan Lead BG Geoffrey Norman PEO Ground Combat Systems GCS Vertical lift platforms Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Alabama Lead BG Wally Rugen PEO Aviation AVN Mobile and expeditionary usable in ground combat communications network Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland Network Command Control Communications and Intelligence Lead BG Jeth Rey PEO Command Control Communications Tactical C3T Assured Position Navigation and Timing Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Alabama Lead William B Nelson SES Air and missile defense Fort Sill Oklahoma Lead BG Brian Gibson PEO Missiles and Space M amp S Soldier lethality Soldier Lethality Fort Moore Georgia Lead BG Larry Q Burris Jr PEO Soldier Synthetic Training Environment Orlando Florida Lead BG William Glaser PEO Simulation Training amp Instrumentation STRI Contested logistics Huntsville Alabama Lead Army Materiel Command AMC stood up in 2023Above dotted line relationship i e coordination is denoted by a As an 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Futures Command to set up DIU like innovation lab Archived 17 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine Ronald Sega CTO for AFC Starts 1 July 2019 Ronald Ron Michael Sega Ronald M Sega a b c d e Army Directive 2018 15 U S Army Futures Command Relationship With the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army Acquisition Logistics and Technology and DCS G 8 27 August 2018 a b c d e Jr Sydney J Freedberg 25 October 2017 Can The Pentagon Protect Young Innovators Breaking Defense Retrieved 3 October 2023 75th Innovation Command Page About Us US Army Reserve Retrieved 12 February 2021 Sydney J Freedberg Jr 8 August 2014 Pentagon Struggles To Get Small Biz Tech FCS misuse of OTA other acquisition issues Dan Lamothe Washington Post 2018 07 12 Army to unveil details about new Futures Command in biggest reorganization in 45 years Thomas E Ricks MARCH 2 2015 Why hasn t the Army s regular acquisition process produced anything in decades Future of War conference Matthew Cox 28 April 2018 How Future Combat Systems Failed Arpi Dilanian and Matthew Howard Army mil 6 September 2018 Safer smarter faster An interview with Gen James McConville US edge has eroded to a dangerous degree a b c Sydney J Freedberg Jr 14 March 2019 Army Big Six Ramp Up in 2021 Learning From FCS a b c d e Jaspreet Gill 4 May 2022 EXCLUSIVE New Army directive shakes up modernization enterprise Jr Sydney J Freedberg 24 August 2018 How McCain amp Milley Created Army Futures Command It Almost Didn t Happen Breaking Defense Retrieved 12 June 2023 Carlson Kara Modernizing is key Austin based Army Futures Command continues to grow adapt Austin American Statesman 11 May 2021 Retrieved 18 March 2022 Jen Judson 28 Aug 2018 Can Austin make the Army weird MG Cedric T Wins 09 10 2019 CCDC S road map to modernizing the Army air and missile defense DVIDS release 10 September 2019 Same CCDC text but with 3 more images Fifth in a series a b Army AI task force Army Directive 2018 18 Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force in Support of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center 2 October 2018 Kelley M Sayler CRS 10 Nov 2020 Artificial Intelligence and National Security R45178 C5ISR Army leaders get firsthand look at C5ISR Center research development projects www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b TRADOC Pamphlet 525 3 1 6 December 2018 The U S Army in Multi Domain Operations 2028 describes how US Army forces as part of the Joint Force will militarily compete penetrate dis integrate and exploit our adversaries in the future Link moved here The U S Army Modernization Strategy APG News 13 June 2018 Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b Kerensa Crum CCDC Aviation amp Missile Center Public Affairs 14 August 2019 Leader updates Army s modernization priorities Standoff a b Yasmin Tadjdeh 10 10 2018 Army to Focus on Defeating Enemies Standoff Capabilities Summary of standoff a b CRS Insight IN11019 17 January 2019 The U S Army and Multi Domain Operations Congressional Research Service CRS Todd South 11 August 2019 This 3 star Army general explains what multi domain operations mean for you think assess and employ all domains when necessary General Wesley Sydney Freedberg Jr 14 January 2020 Army Chief Seeks Minimally Manned Vehicles Joint C2 LRPF ITN IBCS FARA FLRAA and We need a joint command and control system Army Chief of Staff James C McConville Sydney Freedberg Jr 2021 Army Chief To Navy Air Force We ve Got Speed amp Range The future is all about range and speed Gen McConville a b Chief of Staff paper 1 Headquarters Department of the Army 16 March 2021 Army Multi Domain Transformation Ready to Win in Competition and Conflict Unclassified version by 40th Chief of Staff of the Army Gen James C McConville a b Chief of Staff paper 2 1 March 2021 The Army in Military Competition a b c Sydney Freedberg Jr 26 March 2018 Army Outlines Futures Command Org Chart In Flux a b c d e f g h Lt Col Thomas Bull Holland PhD U S Army 15 January 2019 Proposed Army Futures Command Process Tenets Scientific research is a fundamentally different activity than technology development Incorporate scientific research into Appendix C Functional Concepts and specify pathways for technology development Buy into the fail fast mentality 6 3 funded projects to produce knowledge technical data that can be consumed by requirements developers as opposed to PMs Use evidence based requirements process early hypothesis testing with citations for evidence All projects will be executed in no less than two increments No new requirements once an increment is started Summary advances on the battlefield requires comprehensive coordinated changes in the entire acquisition system a b c d e f The RAND Corporation 2000 Discovery and Innovation Federal Research and Development in the Fifty States District of Columbia and Puerto Rico RAND MR1194 Appendix B Government Wide and DOD Definitions of R amp D Archived 6 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine See Appendix B p 615 for DOD Financial Management Regulation Volume 2B Chapter 5 Neil Hollenbeck and Benjamin Jensen 6 December 2017 Why the Army needs a Futures Command Enable a culture of experimentation and develop concepts and technology together a b c d Sydney J Freedberg Jr 13 Sep 2018 Futures Command Won t Hurt Oversight Army Tells Congress a b c d e f ASA ALT Weapon Systems Handbook 2018 update a b Gary Sheftick Army News Service 3 April 2019 Army Shark Tank enabling quick prototyping of new systems Sean Kimmons Army News Service 18 July 2019 Futures Command showcases efforts ahead of upcoming FOC Jen Judson 23 Mar 2022 Multidomain operations concept will become doctrine this summer a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 7 May 2018 Permanent Evolution SecArmy Esper On Futures Command a b c JP 1 Archived 26 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine p xxi has the definition of operational control OPCON Note that command authority may not be delegated COCOM being command authority p xxii has the definition of administrative control ADCON one application being coordinating authority see also C Berry 3 May 2010 Understanding OPCON COCOM is the legal authority of a combatant commander CCDR OPCON on the other hand is derived from the authorities of COCOM and delineated in JP 1 a b Scott Maucione 19 July 2019 Army Futures Command fully operational dinged by GAO on announcement a b c d e Sean Kimmons Army News Service 11 July 2019 Embracing a new culture at Army Futures Command www army mil Retrieved 25 December 2021 a b c Army Futures Command Press Conference DVIDS Retrieved 25 December 2021 a b Devon L Suits Army News Service Army 26 February 2019 FY20 budget proposal realigns 30 billion Sydney J Freedberg Jr 29 May 2019 Army Big 6 Gets 10B More Over 2021 2025 Michael A Grinston James C McConville and Ryan McCarthy 2019 2019 Army Modernization Strategy revision 7 CFTs 31 signature efforts Sydney J Freedberg Jr 19 September 2019 Can Army Control Costs Of Its New Weapons Currently the Army has 692 programs of record Sydney J Freedberg Jr 11 January 2019 12 Moments Of Truth For Army Modernization In 2019 a b MDO Challenge 15 May 2019 Start here MDO 101 General explanation of multi domain operations MDO for the layman America s Future Series April 2023 GEN Mike Murray Army Futures Command What we got right Sean Kimmons In first year Futures Command grows from 12 to 24 000 personnel Army News Service 19 July 2019 Freedberg Jr Sydney J 13 September 2018 Futures Command Won t Hurt Oversight Army Tells Congress Breakingdefense com a b Futures Command 2022 xTechSearch The Army s ongoing search for capabilities Sydney J Freedberg Jr 20 March 2020 xTechSearch Army Picks Top 10 Tech Innovators breakingdefense com Sydney J Freedberg Jr 13 April 2020 COVID 19 Army Tries Prizes To Get Ventilator Tech ASAP breakingdefense com a b Grinston McConville and McCarthy 2019 2019 Army Modernization Strategy Investing in the future 7 Figure 3 Current Cross Functional Teams and Signature Efforts a b Chief of staff Most signature systems to be fielded by 2023 people still No 1 www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Anthony Capaccio 14 Sep 2023 US Army Faces Facts Its Hypersonic Weapon To Miss a Deadline Sharon Weinberger WSJ 15 Sep 2023 Hypersonic Missiles Are Game Changers and America Doesn t Have Them Andrew Feickert Specialist in Military Ground Forces Congressional Research Service CRS 27 Dec 2022 The U S Army s Strategic Mid Range Fires SMRF System Formerly Mid Range Capabilities MRC System report IF12135 Ashley Roque 22 Aug 2022 US Army picks AeroVironment s Jump 20 for FTUAS Increment 1 Sydney J Freedberg Jr 27 Feb 2023 Unmanned drones take too many humans to operate says top Army aviator Jaspreet Gill 14 Jan 2022 Army well on its way to first OCONUS cloud in Indo Pacific a b Alternative PNT amp Area Protection DAPS Andrew Eversden Feb 2 2022 at 12 09 PM ET update Here s the Army s 24 programs in soldiers hands by 2023 Updated by AFC MDAA 24 Jul 2020 Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor LTAMDS Jen Judson 13 Jan 2022 Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50 kilowatt laser weapons Jaspreet Gill 27 Feb 2023 Maxar plans geospatial data multi source collection for Army s One World Terrain Sydney J Freedberg Jr 20 May 2020 Army Braces For Post COVID Cuts Gen Murray 34 Signature Programs 31 in Futures Command 3 in RCCTO MG Cedric T Wins 5 Dec 2018 RDECOM S ROAD MAP TO MODERNIZING THE ARMY NEXT GENERATION COMBAT VEHICLE MODULAR ACTIVE PROTECTION SYSTEMS Second in a series U S Army Public Affairs 21 Sep 2023 Transcript Media Roundtable with Douglas Bush ASA for AL amp T September 19 2023 Updates for IBCS IVAS 1 2 Mid range capability MRC AMPV Abrams M1E3 XM30 MPF XM7 XM250 Ukraine related 155mm shells GMLRS HIMARS Javelin Stinger 777 tubes other questions which are out of the scope of ASA ALT etc a b Jen Judson 4 April 2019 US Army plans to field a future long range assault helicopter by 2030 FLRAA RFI posted on the Federal Business Opportunities 4 April Contract award fourth quarter of FY21 preliminary design review PDR second quarter of FY23 first flight in the third quarter of FY24 critical design review CDR in the fourth quarter of FY24 fielding to first unit in second quarter of FY30 Steve Trimble 24 July 2020 U S Army Upgrades Vision For Future Vertical Lift Programs Sydney J Freedberg Jr 10 April 2020 Army Revamps OMFV Bradley Replacement For Russian Front OMFV digital designs by 2023 prototypes by 2025 operational by 2028 OMFV OPTIONALLY MANNED FIGHTING VEHICLE OMFV INDUSTRY DAY amp PROGRAM QUESTIONS 9 April 2020 Archived 17 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine 14 pages Sydney J Freedberg Jr 11 Mar 2021 A War With China Would Spread To Land Says Army Tanker Judson Jen 6 September 2022 Futures Command faces identity crisis as Army shifts mission Defense News Retrieved 12 June 2023 a b Andrew Eversden 15 Sep 2022 Wormuth Here are the 6 areas the Army must be prepared for in 2030 a b Christine Wormuth 25th Secretary of the Army 10 Oct 2022 AUSA 2022 Opening Ceremony hour 0 37 50 to 1 05 41 Patrick Tucker 14 Sep 2022 Ukraine War Offers Clues to Future War Joint Chiefs Chairman Says The Economist 30 Nov 2022 What is the war in Ukraine teaching Western armies It shows the importance of dispersal firepower and stockpiles a b Gen David Goldfein and Gen Jay Raymond 28 Feb 2020 America s future battle network is key to multidomain defense JADC2 We cannot yet share data in a seamless and simultaneous way between the Army Air Force Navy Marine Corps or the Space Force a b Joe Lacdan Army News Service 24 Oct 2022 Army of 2030 Collaboration key to Army modernization US Army Public Affairs 10 Oct 2022 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum Army 2030 Preparing Today for Tomorrow s Fight Gen McConville Gen Ret Perkins DepUnderSec Diaz Gen Rainey LTG Beagle Prof Greer SAMS Caitlin Kenny 10 Oct 2022 Divisions Corps to Replace Brigades As Army s Wartime Formation Of Choice Brigades that operated largely independently in Iraq and Afghanistan will fight as part of larger units in future conflicts officials said a b Jen Judson 29 Mar 2023 US Army has a gigantic problem with logistics in the Indo Pacific AMC is lead AFC sets requirements TRADOC 13 Apr 2022 The Operational Environment and the Changing Character of Warfare TP 525 92 Colin Demarest 21 Oct 2022 Project Convergence shows JADC2 alignment leaders from 3 services say Interoperations show the services are aligned and not disjointed Jason Cutshaw 5 Dec 2022 Experiment demos Army space capabilities to test 300 technologies Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest 8 Dec 2022 Project Overmatch US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech Jen Judson 7 Feb 2023 Army sets sights on 2024 for next Project Convergence Ashley Roque 8 Feb 2023 No Convergence in 2023 Army deliberating the path ahead for signature JADC2 exercise Signal 10 Oct 2022 The Army Takes an Extended View to 2040 Jaspreet Gill 19 Oct 2022 As Project Convergence tries new tech gateways 2 AI algorithms to transition to programs of record Todd Army 2040 Parth Satam 15 Nov 2022 Decoding HIMARS Design Philosophy Latest Images Show Russia Could Be Analyzing Deadly US Rockets Maureena Thompson Army Futures Command 3 January 2023 AFC hosts inaugural Army Future Readiness Conference Jen Judson 8 Feb 2023 New Futures Command chief shifts main effort to designing Army of 2040 John Ferrari 2 Mar 2023 Congress can put Army modernization back on track AEI s John Ferrari asks five important questions that the Army needs to answer before committing to high dollar procurments sic during its modernization push Jen Judson 4 Apr 2023 The US Army moves to tweak its formations for future conflicts AFC to work with TRADOC a b Jen Judson 31 July 2023 Army Futures Command drafting next operating concept Joe Lacdan Army News Service 19 May 2023 LANPAC 2023 Army faces most disruptive period since World War II a b c Army Futures Command YouTube clip 7 December 2018 ARCIC Transition of Authority Ceremony 7 Dec 2018 to Futures and Concepts Center AFC Army Futures Command FCC Leadership 20 February 2020 Futures and Concepts Center Futures and Concepts Center Retrieved 20 February 2020 a b US Army 15 August 2018 Army Futures Command aims to tap into innovative culture in Austin and beyond a b Federal News Radio Army has picked a location for its new Futures Command but now comes the hard part a b Scott McKean 14 Jul 2021 AFC Pamphlet 71 20 9 Army Futures Command Concept for Command and Control Pursuing decision dominance AFCC C2 is the future communications network 14 Jul 2021 see FUTURES AND CONCEPTS CENTER resources BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN ANDREW DESIDERIO LARA SELIGMAN and ERIN BANCO 22 Apr 2021 Pentagon investigated suspected Russian directed energy attacks on U S troops a b c TRADOC Analysis Center Combined Arms training center Fort Leavenworth Archived 2 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine a b Mission Command Battle Lab MCBL usacac army mil US Army Combined Arms Center Retrieved 25 December 2021 a b c Argie Sarantinos Perrin CCDC HQ Public Affairs 31 January 2019 RDECOM transitions to Army Futures Command a b Sydney Freedberg 10 Dec 2018 US Army s Brain Transplant Futurists Move To Futures Command a b c TRAC makes official move to Futures Command www army mil Retrieved 25 December 2021 a b c Lea Maj Brett 5 September 2018 Army establishes Futures Command U S Army JMC at Fort Bliss is operational arm Fort Bliss Bugle US Army 4 Sep 2018 U S Army Pacific Commander Gen Robert Brown State of the Pacific a b c d e f Jr Sydney J Freedberg 8 February 2019 Army R amp D Chief I Don t Think We Went Far Enough But Futures Command Can Breaking Defense Retrieved 3 October 2023 a b Freedberg Jr 31 Jan 2019 Army Completes Biggest Reorg In 45 Years Can Futures Command End Weapons Disasters another thing we ve not done very well is doing the prototyping and experimentation with soldiers from the beginning so we got soldier input into a program before it ever becomes a program of record Gen Mike Murray CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs 29 April 2019 Army selects senior research scientist for terminal ballistics Fewer than 50 STs across the Army An ST is a general officer equivalent U S Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory 18 September 2019 Army research uncovers law like progression of weapons technologies from a crossbowman to a tank Jerome Aliotta TARDEC 6 September 2019 Army demos prototype manned fighting vehicle teamed with robotic combat vehicle platoon Argie R Sarantinos Perrin CCDC 30 September 2019 Army reform drives innovation at CCDC Jen Judson 6 September 2018 Military deputy to US Army acquisition now has two bosses Lt Gen Paul Ostrowski Bio a b c d Ms Audra Calloway Picatinny 19 September 2018 With new Army Futures Command senior acquisition leader discusses role of Program Executive Offices ASA ALT 20 September 2019 Army Acquisition Reform Stand to Army Acquisition Reform a summary a b HQDA 3 May 2022 Army Directive 2022 07 Army Modernization Roles and Responsibilities AD2022 07 is 6 pages a b c Andrew Eversden 24 Jun 2022 House lawmakers ask Army Who s in charge of massive modernization program 180 day timer after FY2023 NDAA takes effect could trigger rescission of AD2022 07 To find an Army document enter the pub form identifier such as ar 71 9 in the menu ARMY PUBLISHING INDEX a b Marcus Weisgerber 10 Nov 2022 Defense Business Brief What a split Congress means for defense spending on the lame duck Congress to do list Pass the fiscal 2023 defense appropriation by December and the National Defense Authorization Act Passage of the NDAA starts the 180 day timer on AD 2022 07 Myers 27 March 2018 Abrams Army units will be tasked to work on each of Futures Command s priorities Arpi Dilanian and Matthew Howard 18 July 2019 The Cheese Has Moved An Interview With Lt Gen Paul Ostrowski Ft Meade Soundoff 19 July 2018 New site for Army Futures Command US Army 2020 AMERICA S ARMY READY NOW INVESTING IN THE FUTURE FY19 21 accomplishments and investment plan Andrew Smith 9 Apr 2020 Convergence within SOCOM A Bottom Up Approach to Multi Domain Operations Todd South 17 Jun 2021 Even generals must learn new skills in tech dominated special operations future Judson Jen 29 March 2023 US Army forms new modernization team to tackle contested logistics Defense News Retrieved 3 October 2023 Ashley Rocque 7 Aug 2023 From petroleum pipes to pest problems what a US Army 2 star learned from Talisman Sabre 23 Ashley Roque 31 Mar 2023 Army to use Pacific Pathways to test assumptions about contested logistics prepositioned stocks Jen Judson 31 Mar 2023 Army Materiel Command boss says logistics are key to future warfare a b Scott Maucione 14 Sep 2018 Army leaders ask for trust in lieu of metrics for Futures Command Allies to join Army Futures Command www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b c d Freedberg Jr Sydney 14 August 2018 Inside Army Futures Command CFT Chiefs Take Charge Breaking Defense Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b US Army 6 Oct 2017 Army Directive 2017 24 Cross Functional Team Pilot In Support of Materiel Development a b c d Headquarters Department of the Army 29 Jun 2021 Army Regulation 71 9 Force Management Warfighting Capabilities Determination 1 6c p 1 tasks for CG AFC 2 24 p 13 CG AFC is a principal member of AROC with 43 duties a through qq 3 1 ch 3 pp20 21 AROC is a forum for requirements decisions RDF 4 1 p 24 CG AFC is responsible for force design 6 4 p39 figure 6 1 Deliberate staffing and review process figures for more staffing and review processes follow Research Development and Acquisition AR 71 9 2009 Warfighting Capabilities Determination Aug 15 2019 update Research Development and Acquisition 22 Jul 2011 Army Acquisition Policy Archived 22 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine AR 70 1 Jared Serbu 11 Mar 2016 Army puts its chief of staff at the center of acquisition decisions USAASC Army ALT Magazine Best Practices 16 February 2018 A Model and Process for Transitioning Urgent Acquisition USAASC United States Army Acquisition Corps a b Jen Judson 6 Sep 2022 Futures Command faces identity crisis as Army shifts mission a b Judson Jen 6 September 2022 Army s next Futures Command leader could come in short order Defense News Retrieved 3 October 2023 a b Eversden Andrew 7 September 2022 After months of delay Army nominates new commander for Futures Command Breaking Defense Retrieved 3 October 2023 a b Army announces new Futures Command leader as Texas senator calls for clarity on innovating force Stars and Stripes Retrieved 3 October 2023 a b Sydney Freedberg 29 August 2018 Army Futures Command 100M 500 Staff amp Access To Top Leaders Office of the Chief of Public Affairs US Army 10 16 2019 2019 AUSA Warriors Corner TacticalSpace Delivering Future Force Space Capabilities a b Office of the Chief of Public Affairs 10 16 2019 2019 AUSA Warriors Corner TacticalSpace Delivering Future Force Space Capabilities Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing Tactical Space SDA is structuring a multi layer satellite system Backbone layer for data transport downward to the long range precision fires Custody layer for missiles trajectories whether friendly or threat Tracking layer for hypersonic glide vehicles which represent threats to the multi layer satellite system Space situational awareness for cis lunar trajectories NavWar Sydney J Freedberg Jr 5 August 2020 Army Tests New All Domain Kill Chain From Space To AI Initially satellites feed data to TITAN Prometheus which is AI software combs through the data for potential threats and targets SHOT which is also software tracks each target on a custody list correlating each target s current location signature and threat assessment with a list of candidate fires countermeasures ranked by capability range to the target kill radius etc SHOT then computes the optimal match of weapons to targets and passes the list to AFATDS Human commanders choose whether to fire or not from the list of fires assets Nelson notes that ERCA and Grey Eagle drones are to be added to the list of fires assets currently M777 howitzers and MLRS 270 rocket launchers in the upcoming tests August 2020 satellites perform Battle damage assessment to update the list of threats and targets Sydney J Freedberg Jr 14 August 2020 Can Army Intel Data Feed The Kill Chain Quickly pooling data will take AI and cloud Project Convergence Office of the Chief of Public Affairs US Army 10 16 2019 2019 AUSA Warriors Corner TacticalSpace Delivering Future Force Space Capabilities The Army is the largest user of Space Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing Tactical Space SDA is structuring a multi layer satellite system Backbone layer for data transport downward to the long range precision fires Custody layer for missiles trajectories whether friendly or threat Tracking layer for hypersonic glide vehicles which represent threats to the multi layer satellite system Space situational awareness for cis lunar trajectories NavWar Lt Gen Eric J Wesley U S Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jon Bates U S Army May Jun 2020 To Change an Army Winning Tomorrow The MDO concept TRADOC pamphlet 525 3 1 SARA ARL 29 Jun 2021 Army program introduces new software for robot autonomy AIMM ERP Artificial Intelligence for Maneuver and Mobility Essential Research Program a b c Sean Kimmons Army Futures Command aims to tap into innovative culture in Austin and beyond Army News Service 15 August 2018 Lamothe Dan 14 July 2018 Why the Army decided to put its new high tech Futures Command in Texas Washington Post Technology Review 19 December 2016 The Pentagon s Innovation Experiment University of Texas System 13 July 2018 University of Texas System to serve as home base for U S Army Futures Command Ralph K M Haurwitz American Statesman Staff 10 August 2018 UT regents give Army s Futures Command free use of space temporarily Archived 10 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine Dr Charles K Pickar Naval Postgraduate School October 29 2019 An exercise to experience Army ALT Magazine January 29 2019 Then And Now Training for the Future Lacdan Joe 25 June 2019 Virtual program adds elite dimensions to SHARP training US Army a b U S Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs 3 February 2020 Army develops big data approach to neuroscience Dr Jonathan Touryan co author The Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance Automated EEG mega analysis I Spectral and amplitude characteristics across studies NeuroImage Volume 20 15 February 2020 116361 19 Sep 2018 Automated EEG mega analysis II Cognitive aspects of event related features a b Team White Sands Organizations www wsmr army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Locations and Facilities DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory www arl army mil Retrieved 25 December 2021 DoD 16 May 2018 Army Officials Testify on FY 2019 Budget Request a b Judson Jen 26 February 2018 US Army s war gaming is under resourced three star says Defense News Retrieved 15 December 2021 Maj Chris Parker Dr Paul Reese Director Fielded Force Integration Division COL E J Karlberg Director Combined Arms Integration Directorate and Mr Rich Creed Director Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate Breaking Doctrine podcast at Fort Leavenworth 2020 Breaking Doctrine Episode 14 Transitioning the Army to MDO 1 02 44 How a Concept becomes Doctrine at TRADOC Combined Arms Center Fort Leavenworth DOTMLPF P Headquarters Dept of the Army July 2019 ADP 6 0 Mission Command Command and Control of Army Forces 4 chapters See also ADP 3 0 ADP 6 22 FM 6 22 ADP 1 1 and ADP 5 0 Todd South 13 September 2019 Massive simulation shows the need for speed in multi domain ops 400 participants working with 55 formations 64 concepts and 150 capabilities Mission Command Center Of Excellence MC CoE CDID Maj Gen Maria R Gervais 31 August 2018 The Synthetic Training Environment revolutionizes sustainment training Jacqueline M Hames and Margaret C Roth 14 January 2019 Virtual battlefield represents future of training Training as a service more content at scale needed Army ALT Magazine 29 January 2019 THEN AND NOW TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE critique a b STE CFT Cuts Ribbon in Orlando www army mil Retrieved 14 December 2021 a b Army pursuing improved realism in live and virtual training www army mil Retrieved 25 December 2021 Jen Judson 17 May 2019 US Army s jumping to the next level in virtual training reconfigurable virtual collective trainers RVCTs Cyber CoE its CDID a b David Vergun 29 March 2018 Army network modernization efforts spearheaded by new Cross Functional Teams The Army conducts a network demonstration at Fort Bliss Texas The Army is pursuing network modernization through Cross Functional Teams Maneuver CoE its CDID and Battle Lab Archived from the original on 5 September 2018 Retrieved 5 September 2018 Bob Purtiman NGCV Cross Functional Team 17 September 2018 Preparing for future battlefields The Next Generation Combat Vehicle Aviation CoE its CDID Archived from the original on 15 October 2018 Retrieved 5 September 2018 Aviation Industry Days Army Aviation aims for more lethal Multi Domain Operations capability www army mil Retrieved 25 December 2021 Matthew Murch Futures and Concepts Center 30 Jan 2023 Fires CDID Supporting war winning future readiness Fires CoE its CDID and Battle Lab Archived from the original on 24 August 2018 Retrieved 5 September 2018 a b Col Yi Se Gwon Fort Sill Fires Bulletin September October 2018 The Army Multi Domain Targeting Center Army Multi Domain Targeting Center 16 July 2019 Target Mensuration Only TMO a b Maj Anthony Clas 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team 1st Armored Division Public Affairs SEPTEMBER 4 2019 Target Mensuration course Bulldog Brigade trains target acquisition with precision Target Mensuration Only TMO Including TMO in a unit training plan Maj Anthony Clas 28 August 2019 Bulldog Brigade Trains Target Acquisition with Precision Mitch Meador Fort Sill Tribune August 27 2020 Lawton Fort Sill welcomes Fires Five families DOTMLPF P formulated at Fort Sill Mitch Meador Fort Sill Tribune August 13 2020 Ceremony recognizes new Air Defense Artillery capability manager Karen Flowers Fort Sill Tribune 4 September 2020 Air defense Army Capability Manager gets new director a b c d Sydney J Freedberg Jr 11 September 2018 Aiming The Army s Thousand Mile Missiles Multi domain Ft Sill Intelligence CoE no information on its CDID Maneuver Support CoE its CDID and Battle Lab PDF Archived from the original PDF on 9 February 2017 Retrieved 17 September 2018 Sustainment CoE CDID not found permanent dead link a b APG Guide 12 January 2019 Aberdeen Proving Ground 2019 Your road map to the Home of Innovation with more than 90 tenant organizations PEO Command Control Communications Tactical PEO C3T 12 September 2018 ASA ALT MilDep talks APG s role in Futures Command Paul Ostrowski is PMILDEP to ASA ALT a b Suits Devon L 22 August 2019 Army showcases new electronic warfare tech Army News Service Caitlin O Neill PM PNT staff writer 17 November 2017 Army s PNT programs transition to PEO IEW amp S Dan Lafontaine C5ISR Center Public Affairs 19 November 2019 C5ISR Center hosts CCDC commander for town hall lab tours a renewed emphasis on collaboration across CCDC s eight research centers Andrew Eversden 25 Oct 2021 Army Seeks Cutting Edge Network Aided PNT Technologies For Battle Army Applications Lab 19 Oct 2021 Broad Agency Announcement Special Notice W911NF 19 S 0004 Network Aided Position Navigation and Timing solutions for dismounted Soldiers Theresa Hitchens 1 Nov 2021 Sandia s Atomic Avocado Could Allow GPS Free PNT Tobias Naegele 27 Nov 2022 Q amp A The New Chief of Space Operations on Empowering the Force one B 2 hits 80 independent targets because of GPS Gen B Chance Saltzman Space Force a b c Maj Gen Cedric T Wins CG RDECOM 25 September 2018 RDECOM s road map to modernizing the Army Long range precision fires First in a series RCCTO is located in Huntsville 26 August 2019 RCCTO About us Tolson Amy 10 December 2019 CCDC commanding general pays first visit to Aviation Missile Center Aviation amp Missile Center Public Affairs Lee Roop 17 Sep 2019 Lockheed Martin opens plant to test hypersonics in Alabama Thomas Brading Army News Service 23 August 2019 Soldiers at the heart of modernizing warfighter gear Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs 25 February 2019 Army funded researcher wins Nobel Prize Argie Sarantinos Perrin CCDC 21 August 2019 Army develops cold spray technology to repair Bradley gun mounts Army Research Laboratory ARL Army releases top 10 list of coolest science technology advances www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 LATechdigest com 15 April 2016 US Army Research Lab Opens at USC ICT in Playa Vista Archived 9 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine a b Defense gov 12 February 2019 SUMMARY OF THE 2018 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY Ashton Carter 2012 11 21 Autonomy in Weapon Systems Most recent DoD guideline 2012 Terri Moon Cronk Artificial intelligence experts address getting capabilities to warfighters army mil 13 December 2018 Carnegie Mellon University 1 February 2019 Carnegie Mellon Hosts Activation of U S Army AI Task Force Brigadier General Matt Easley is Director of Army Artificial Intelligence task force A AI TF Gary Sheftick 13 August 2019 AI Task Force taking giant leaps forward Coordinating with NREC Talent management task force the CFTs and DOD s Joint AI Center Douglas Scott 6 August 2019 New wearable authentication more than a token gesture Tactical Identity and Access Management TIDAM see Army AI task force A AI TF U S Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs 27 February 2020 Army researchers enhance AI critical to Soldier machine teamwork Explainability amp tellability coalition situational understanding CSU amp human agent knowledge fusion HAKF Alun Preece Dave Braines Federico Cerutti Tien Pham 16 Oct 2019 Explainable AI for Intelligence Augmentation in Multi Domain Operations RDECOM Research Laboratory Public Affairs 18 December 2018 Black Hawk helicopter pilot interns with Army researchers Army aligning modernization programs with other services www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Sydney J Freedberg Jr 11 September 2020 JAIC Wants AI Victory Gardens Across DoD Kaylan Hutchison DAC Strategic Communications 22 Jun 2022 Collaborative agreement propels Army analysis of artificial intelligence a b Eversden Andrew Army Software Factory experiments with a new culture to unleash coders in its ranks C4ISRNet 14 April 2021 Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b Army Futures Command STAND TO www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Army Software Factory Katie Davis Skelley DEVCOM Aviation amp Missile Center Public Affairs 27 May 2022 Software Factory helps transform Army from industrial to information age 16 week boot camp Four different tracks platform engineer software developer product manager and designer Anyone soldier or Army civilian can submit a problem to the Factory A team interviews the problem performs an initial scoping and then decides whether to accept the problem to work on Lindsay Grant 25 May 2022 New Army application enhances equipment readiness PMCS app developed by first cohort in ASF allows soldiers to gain access to field manuals without a CAC card using only a cell phone USAF Assistant Secretary of Acquisition Chief Software Office 19 Dec 2019 SpaceCAMP USAF Software Factory AI TF Artificial Intelligence Task Force Archived 24 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine US Army Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force 31 August 2020 AFC Growing an AI ready workforce U S ARMY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TASK FORCE Nov 2019 U S ARMY FUTURES COMMAND AREAS OF INTEREST Archived 18 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine Colin Clark 8 Aug 2021 Wormuth Hints At Cuts To 35 Core Army Modernization Programs Jaspreet Gill 10 March 2023 Marines teaming with Army on 3 year software factory pilot technical accelerator 3 year pilot is to build applications at least 50 Marines 8 to enter the technical accelerator every 6 months each of them in a program to accelerate modernization as product managers designers or software developers The teams will learn baseline skillsets using pair programming for one on one mentoring and utilization US Army 27 June 2018 U S Army to host tactical Cloud computing industry forum army mil Kathryn Bailey PEO C3T Public Affairs 26 November 2019 The Army gathers industry to inspire network modernization Network Cross Functional Team N CFT and PEO C3T hosted 670 industry partners at the Technical Exchange Meeting TEM 4 Capability Set CS 23 www army mil a b Nathan Strout 30 Nov 2019 Can hundreds of unrelated satellites create a GPS backup Sean Kimmons Army News Service 3 August 2018 Army leveraging industry ideas to modernize network Sydney J Freedberg Jr 21 January 2020 Army Fully Committed To Replacing The Bradley Gen McConville Bradley fighting vehicle replacement is still a project Sydney J Freedberg Jr 23 January 2020 Bradley Replacement Did Army Ask For Unobtainium U S Army Public Affairs 16 January 2020 Army decides to cancel current OMFV solicitation U S Army Public Affairs 7 February 2020 Army aggressively moves forward on OMFV seeks industry input on path forward We are not releasing a prescribed set of requirements we are describing the problem set and giving industry the freedom to be creative and innovative in their approach Gen John Mike Murray Sydney J Freedberg Jr 26 February 2020 OMFV Army Seeks Industry Advice On Bradley Replacement a b Andrew Eversden 24 Aug 2022 Army s robotic vehicle slipped behind enemy lines in European exercise Spc Garrison Waites 12 Jun 2022 Soldiers get hands on experience with new tech during Combined Resolve Using RCVs with Javelins and CROWS a b Andrew Eversden 21 Oct 2022 Lightning in a bottle Inside the Origin of the Army s future robotic fleet Andrew Eversden 22 Nov 2021 Robotic vehicles drones coordinate recon at Army s Project Convergence 21 Ben Watson 6 May 2022 Defense One Radio Ep 99 The role of drones in Russia s Ukraine invasion a b c Sydney J Freedberg Jr 19 Mar 2021 Army Outlines Ambitious Schedule For Robots Armor Army mil Robotic combat vehicles could change way Army looks fights www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Defense One staff 9 Sep 2022 The Army s top officer discusses the future of the force and how the six month old Ukraine invasion is evolving LTG Scott McKean Army Futures Command 19 Sep 2022 Project Convergence 2022 to demonstrate futuristic joint multinational warfighting technologies inaugural PC22 Technology Gateway Joe Lacdan Army News Service 21 Sep 2022 Army to test robotic vehicles on land and sea during PC 22 AFC s McKean JADC2 experiment to reach from continental US to Pacific 1 establish an IAMD 2 use Joint offensive fires 3 examine which authorities and policies hinder the mission a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 14 Nov 2022 Can the Army s robotics programs build AI the Silicon Valley way RCV navigation DIU has brokered a potentially groundbreaking contract between the Army s Robotic Combat Vehicle program and a small California firm that trains AI algorithms to navigate off road Max Boot 28 May 2023 Opinion An Army command like no other seeks to master the future of war AUSA 2023 Warriors Corner BG Stephanie Ahern moderator 9 Oct 2023 Human Machine Integrated Formations panel First fielding 2028 Ms Karen Diane Kurtz ASA ALT and Steven Y Lusher JPEO CBRND PAO 8 October 2018 ASA ALT Participates in U S Army Futures Command Panel at AUSA a b Matthew Cox 14 Sep 2018 Head of Army Futures Command Fields Tough Questions From Congress a b c Richard Simonetti 23 April 2018 US Army turns to new technologies linkedin com a b Acquisition process Materiel development decision MDD a b c d e 24 October 2019 Army Pushes 600 Programs From Acquisition To Sustainment USArmy tweet Futures Command will have the overarching objective to achieve clear overmatch in future conflicts making Soldiers and units more lethal to win the nation s wars then return home safely Anthony Small Futures Command Deputy Commanding General talks the U S Army s Future at South by Southwest US Army 13 March 2019 a b c Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army Acquisition Logistics and Technology ASA ALT Archived 18 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine Org Chart as of May 2020 see also February 2020 and 11 5 19 as well as Org Chart as of 11 26 18 Mr Craig A Spisak Director Acquisition Career Management 3 October 2018 A vigorous talent management strategy keeps the acquisition workforce prepared for threats Jacqueline M Hames U S Army Acquisition Support Center 31 January 2020 TWI worth it Training with Industry a work experience program for Army Acquisition officers from captain to lieutenant colonel After their TWI rotation officers are expected to identify industry best practices and implement them at their next duty station A sample career path here Aviation Engineering director to SES 1 Aug 2018 Military Officer Corner Army Acquisition Centralized Selection List 29 Apr 2015 Army Acquisition Corps Recognized a b Jr Sydney J Freedberg 6 June 2019 Army Fields Anti Jam GPS In Germany This Fall Breaking Defense Retrieved 3 October 2023 Sydney J Freedberg Jr 24 January 2019 Bell V 280 Flies 322 MPH Army Secretary Praises Program a b c d Secretary of the Army Mark T Esper ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES ARMY FUTURES COMMAND Army General order G O 2018 10 Nancy Jones Bonbrest Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office 14 June 2019 Partnering for speed Army rapid prototyping office hosts industry open house Clark Colin 2019 05 24 Army Moves Out On Lasers Hypersonics Lt Gen Thurgood Jen Judson 13 March 2019 Army Rapid Capabilities Office is getting a new name and mission a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 22 August 2018 Army Warhead Is Key To Joint Hypersonics Judson Jen 5 June 2019 Coming soon to the US Army Combat capable hypersonic and laser weapons C4ISRNet Retrieved 15 December 2021 a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 19 March 2019 Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test Strategic Cannon Advances Sydney J Freedberg 2 Oct 2020 Army Tripled OTA Prototyping To 4 8B In Just 3 Years GAO For example Request for ATEC Acquisition Support Form Archived 27 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine or Rapid evaluation of a capability or Private industry test January 2011 Implementing Acquisition Reform The Decker Wagner Army Acquisition Review U S Army Combat Capabilities Development Command 4 February 2019 CCDC Research Laboratory a b c Army Directive 2017 33 Enabling the Army Modernization Task Force 7 November 2017 References Decker Wagner 2011 Argie Sarantinos Perrin 17 October 2018 RDECOM at the forefront of creating a more modern lethal Army Get that moving truck ready www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 US Army Futures Command to reform modernization says secretary of the Army www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 AUSA 2018 CMF 1 Army Futures Command Unifies Force Modernization DVIDS video of panelists Gen Murray Sec McCarthy Dr Jette and Trae Stephens Trae Stephens 6 Jun 2022 Rebooting the arsenal of democracy 4 principles for the new defense companies Association of the United States Army AUSA Scott R Gourley Friday 13 January 2017 CLOSING THE CAPABILITIES GAP SEVEN THINGS THE ARMY NEEDS FOR A WINNING FUTURE a b United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report GAO 17 457 Jun 2017 ARMY CONTRACTING Leadership Lacks Information Needed to Evaluate and Improve Operations Building the Army of the future www army mil Retrieved 3 October 2023 Hannah Wiley 6 April 2018 Program cuts likely under Army secretary s new Futures Command Jen Judson 17 July 2018 US Army asks Congress to shift millions in FY18 dollars What s behind the request a b David Vergun 5 September 2018 Richardson confirmed as Futures Command deputy commander FY2021 budget request Sean Kimmons Army News Service 13 February 2020 Army budget request eyes 2B boost for modernization 10 6 billion for modernization in 2021 request up from 8 5 billion in 2020 LRPF 1700 million FVL 514 million OMFV 328 million MPF 135 million LTAMDS 376 million IFPC 236 million a b c Todd South Military Times 8 May 2019 4 things the general in charge of the Army s newest command says are needed to win the wars of the future Sydney J Freedberg Jr 15 January 2020 Army To Navy Hey We Already Get Less Than You Army 26 6 Navy 28 7 Air Force 28 5 Other 16 3 Sean Kimmons Army News Service 7 February 2020 Vice chief of staff Speed of modernization no longer at glacial pace Kern Life Cycle Management Command LCMC 2004 Ed Worley 1 October 2018 Two contracting centers achieve full operational capability Jon Harper 3 April 2020 COVID 19 NEWS Army Trying to Mitigate Disruptions for Top Modernization Programs Devon Suits Army News Service 7 April 2020 Army looks to keep critical modernization programs on schedule 800 acquisition logistics and technology related programs and nearly 35 key modernization priorities Sydney J Freedberg Jr 23 April 2020 COVID 19 Won t Slow New Army Weapons McCarthy Murray Jette Subcontractors are holding to their schedules when making up for COVID 19 shutdowns a b Connie Lee 3 26 2019 NEWS FROM AUSA GLOBAL Army Fleshing Out Updated Modernization Strategy Readiness for the 21st Century An interview with retired Gen David McKiernan www army mil Retrieved 14 December 2021 Lauren C Williams 21 Aug 2018 PEO structure survives Army Futures reorg for now Archived from the original on 1 September 2018 Retrieved 1 September 2018 Sydney Freeberg 6 September 2018 A Little Bit Disruptive Murray amp McCarthy On Army Futures Command Acqnote AcqNotes 17 Jan 2017 Other Transaction Authority OTA Guide 17 Jan 2017 Paul McCleary 31 December 2018 Amidst Turmoil Pentagon Persists On Acquisition Reform Ellen Lord a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 30 August 2019 Hypersonics Army Awards 699M To Build First Missiles For A Combat Unit prototypes Dynetics Common hypersonic glide body C HGB Lockheed Long range hypersonic weapon LRHW Nancy Jones Bonbrest U S Army RCCTO 30 August 2019 Army awards hypersonic weapon system contracts Mr Kinsey Kiriakos ASA ALT 20 November 2019 Army Acquisition Leaders Must Speak Truth To Power MTA and OTA Sydney J Freedberg Jr 27 Feb 2023 Rapid updates flexible authorities key for modern combat says Army acquisition chief Use DOD Instruction 5000 87 for Software Pathway SWP acquisition process under middle tier acquisition authority Jen Judson 26 March 2018 The next Army program executive office will be the Rapid Capabilities Office Jen Judson 7 Oct 2018 Army Rapid Capabilities Office realigned to focus on top modernization priorities RCO RCCTO 2019 Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office a b Phil Fountain U S Army Futures Command 7 August 2019 Army Futures Command charts a campaign plan No uniforms Sydney J Freedberg Jr 14 Oct 2020 Army Seeks Open Architecture For All Air amp Ground Systems Jette In the spirit of MOSA JADC2 amp Project convergence Army Common Operating Environment COE C5ISR EW Modular Open Suite of Standards CMOSS Future Air Borne Capability Environment FACE Integrated Sensor Architecture ISA Sensor Open Systems Architecture SOSA Vehicle Integration for C4ISR EW Interoperability VICTORY Sydney J Freedberg Jr 13 Nov 2020 QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army RCV L uses UGV Interoperability Profile Katherine Spivey and Wendy Wagner Smith 19 May 2021 Positioning Yourself as a Plain Language Editor Headquarters Department of the Army 1 October 2022 FM 3 0 OPERATIONS 280 pages AUSA 2022 10 Oct 2022 AUSA Contemporary Military Forum Army 2030 Preparing Today for Tomorrow s Fight Office of the Chief of Public Affairs Andrew Feickert Specialist in Military Ground Forces Congressional Research Service CRS 31 May 2022 The Army s Multi Domain Task Force MDTF report IF11797 Christine Wormuth 10 11 2021 AUSA 2021 U S Department of Defense 28 Aug 2023 Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Keynote Address The Urgency to Innovate As Delivered Replicator introduced at the NDIA Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference Replicator is meant to overcome PRC s mass with AI en masse Brandi Vincent 28 Aug 2023 Hicks unveils DOD s new Replicator initiative to counter China via autonomous tech Todd South 20 Sep 2022 Army missile teams will add robots and multi payload rockets Hunter Blackwell CCDC Aviation and Missile Center AvMC US Army AvMC 16 Jun 2021 Video Autonomous missile launcher destroys enemy threats AvMC concept video autonomous multi domain launcher AML Jen Judson 16 Jun 2021 US Army fires autonomous launcher in Pacific focused demo AML demo at Fort Sill utilized a HIMARS launcher and the AML Breaking Defense A series on Army Strategic Fires a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 28 May 2019 Beyond INF An Affordable Arsenal Of Long Range Missiles INF Treaty likely to expire in August 2019 Loren Thompson 7 Aug 2020 Army breakthroughs in Long range fires raise novel questions about targeting organization and command about SLRC a long barrelled cannon which uses GPS guided munitions Matthew Cox 14 September 2018 The Army is developing a new strategic cannon to devastate targets over 1 000 miles away a b Sean Gallagher 10 15 2019 Bringing in the big gun Army paves way for strategic cannon Defense Updates 4 Feb 2019 U S ARMY S SUPER GUN STRATEGIC LONG RANGE CANNON SLRC Smaller GPS enabled shells Judson Jen 15 October 2019 Strategic long range cannon preps to jump its first tech hurdle Defense News Retrieved 3 October 2023 Eric Kowal August 27 2020 By Improving Artillery Shells Picatinny Engineers Seek to Greatly Extend Range of Cannon Artillery Richard P Hansen Scranton Army Ammunition Plant August 19 2020 Scranton Army Ammunition Plant Manufactures and Ships Large Caliber Ammunition Metal Parts a b c Lacdan Joe 19 June 2019 Army leaders say service must shore up its space defense PDF Army News Service I Corps has I2CEWS Battalion or Intelligence Information Cyber Electronic Warfare and Space Battalion Archived from the original PDF on 23 June 2019 Retrieved 30 September 2023 Fyi the original link at fortblissbugle com is now a gaming site Only use the archive link a b c Jason Cutshaw SMDC ARSTRAT 21 February 2019 SMDC supports the development of I2CEWS battalions for multi domain operations Sydney J Freedberg Jr 24 Jan 2019 Hack Jam Sense amp Shoot Army Creates 1st Multi Domain Unit an MDO BN for Targeting I Corps Monica K Guthrie LRPF communications director 9 October 2019 Army Futures Command gains new general Daniel Cebul 8 Oct 2018 Army looks to a future of integrated fire Sean Kimmons Army News Service 24 October 2019 TITAN system being developed to tie deep sensing to long range fires For use in I2CEWS battalion of a Multi domain task force Sandra Erwin 19 April 2021 U S Army approves plans for a future tactical space layer tactical space layer will be integrated with an existing ground station called Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node TITAN ARL Public Affairs 16 October 2018 Researchers develop technique to locate robots Soldiers in GPS challenged environments Joe Lacdan Army News Service 10 June 2019 Army leaders Space tech crucial to future combat Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing Cross Functional Team Assessment Exercise 1 16 Aug 2019 WSMR rfpdb com Positioning Navigation and Timing Assessment Exercise PNTAX a b Koester Jonathan 4 September 2019 Army JMC assess new navigation positioning systems Wearable A PN fortissbugle com Joint Modernization Command Public Affairs Archived from the original on 4 September 2019 Retrieved 30 September 2023 Fyi the original link at fortblissbugle com is now a gaming site Only use the archive link Mark Pomerleau 28 March 2019 If GPS goes out the Army now has a requirement for that Caitlin O Neill APNT CFT Public Affairs 23 August 2019 APNT CFT Hosts First Annual Assessment Exercise Thomas Brading Army News Service 7 October 2019 Army fields anti jam GPS plans for thousands more by 2028 Dan Lafontaine CCDC C5ISR Center Public Affairs 17 June 2019 Futures Command looks to enable plug and play PNT across Army platforms Theresa Hitchens and Sydney J Freedberg Jr 7 August 2019 Army Seeks Small Satellites To Support Ground Troops 3 programs Gunsmoke Lonestar and Polaris Theresa Hitchens 12 October 2020 SMDC Pushes For New PNT Tracking Sat Payloads In addition to the 3 LEO satellite programs mentioned above SMDC s technical center is working on project TITAN Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node a common mobile ground station for the Army s tactical needs Gary Sheftick Army News Service 10 March 2020 Army looks to leverage low Earth orbit satellites LEO satellites orbit 100 1200 miles above Earth CCDC Army Research Laboratory 29 August 2019 Army scientists discover a new way for robots to exchange directed messages Kim M Pallecchi E Ge R et al 2020 Analogue switches made from boron nitride monolayers for application in 5G and terahertz communication systems Nature Electron https doi org 10 1038 s41928 020 0416 x U S Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs May 26 2020 New 5G switch provides 50 times more energy efficiency than currently exists Todd South 20 Nov 2020 New Army research breakthrough could lead to more powerful lasers David J Pine is investigator for ARO using colloids of microscopic spheres which can assemble bottom up into promising structures Mingxin He Johnathon P Gales Etienne Ducrot Zhe Gong Gi Ra Yi Stefano Sacanna amp David J Pine 23 Sep 2020 Colloidal diamond Michael Howard 11 September 2020 Technology Providing Navigation in GPS Denied Environment wins Grand Prize in xTechSearch Competition Sydney J Freedberg Jr Iron Dome Doesn t Work For Army Gen Murray Interoperability with IBCS is critical breakingdefense com 5 March 2020 Jen Judson 27 March 2019 Army debuts missile defense framework in move to counter drones hypersonic threats Paul McLeary 17 January 2019 Missile Defense Review a Multi Billion IOU to White House Miles Brown 5 July 2019 Aviation missile commander addresses workforce CG Todd Royar s statement of his expectations Lisa Simanuci Aviation and Missile Command Public Affairs 27 Nov 2019 Field grade officers hear general s perspective Maj Gen Todd Royar s talk at the Command and General Staff School PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE MISSILES AND SPACE 2018 Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense IAMD Program Overview Archived 23 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine Sydney J Freedberg Jr 1 October 2018 Army Awards Northrop 289M For IBCS Missile Defense Network Gary Sheftick Army News Service 13 March 2019 FY20 budget to boost air amp missile defense Sean Kimmons Army News Service Joint hypersonic weapon tests to start next year www army mil Retrieved 15 December 2021 Gary Sheftick Army News Service 9 September 2019 Smart sensor network helps redirect missile The GBU 69 was redirected FARA is slated to replace AH 64 in subsequent A3I experiments Dan Goure 20 Mar 2020 SOCOM Has Solved the Military s Tower of Babel Problem Sydney J Freedberg Jr 25 February 2020 Future Vertical Lift Army s Aerial Vanguard LRPF will be the prime customer for the AI targeting data provided via FVL The Joint force is also a consumer of this data provided by FVL s manned or unmanned missions Claire Heininger 9 August 2018 Army Air Force team on sensor to shooter prototype for multi domain battle Mark Pomerleau 11 April 2018 In the move to multi domain operations what gets lost The space cyber and information domains transcend geographic AoRs Dan Goure 2 August 2019 Army Futures Command s Report Card After Its First Year Need MDO doctrine in DoD Two theater operation at island amp continent augment BCTs with higher echelon capability ARL 24 September 2018 New Army technology guides Soldiers in complete darkness Andrew Eversden 18 Oct 2021 Army Says Next Gen AR Goggles Delayed Over Field Of View Issues Joe Lacdan 13 May 2019 Augmented reality training on the horizon to give Soldiers edge in combat allows repetition for training Tom McKay 6 April 2019 The Army Just Gave a Press Demo of Microsoft s HoloLens 2 Military Prototype Bridgett Siter 19 November 2019 Soldiers test new IVAS technology capabilities with hand on exercises IVAS 1 Soldier Touchpoint STP STP is becoming rapid acquisitions methodology for AFC Kathryn Bailey PEO C3T Public Affairs 19 November 2019 The Army s tactical network empowers advanced goggle platform IVAS is under STP 2 In July 2020 STP 3 will fully integrate the ITN with IVAS Sydney J Freedberg Jr 13 December 2019 Soldiers Coders Surprise Army Brass By Changing IVAS Goggles FOV is turning out to be more important to the infantrymen than the range of the goggles Devon L Suits Army News Service 9 December 2019 Third IVAS evaluation slated for July Soldier Touchpoint successfully increased IVAS FOV to 80 degrees while range of the goggles was still at 900 meters from thermal nightsight capability Thomas Brading Army News Service 10 February 2020 New technology recognizes faces in the dark far away Combines night vision with facial recognition Sydney J Freedberg Jr 5 October 2020 From Frankengoggle To Battle Ready Army IVAS waterproof IVAS Adam Stone 30 Sep 2021 US Army makes headway on Synthetic Training Environment Andrew Eversden 1 Dec 2021 Wormuth Here s the Army s role in a Pacific fight Immersive Ops 15 Nov 2021 Immersive Wisdom briefs Secretary of the Army at Project Convergence 21 on future of Army operations centers 3D Virtual Operations Center software platform Caitlin M Kenney 1 Dec 2021 Army Would Have 5 Core Tasks in a Pacific Conflict Thomas Brading Army News Service 6 February 2020 Army scientists on verge of nearly unbreakable battery First announced in 2015 U S Army CCDC Research Laboratory Public Affairs 5 February 2020 Army scientists look inside batteries with a molecular eye CCDC ARL teamed with researchers from the U S Department of Energy s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL Nature Nanotechnology 27 January 2020 Real time mass spectrometric characterization of the solid electrolyte interphase of a lithium ion battery CCDC Army Research Laboratory March 2020 Researchers imagine devices without cords or batteries permanent dead link Molybdenum disulphide Dan Lafontaine C5ISR Center Public Affairs 4 May 2020 In modernization push Army researches integrated power cables for Soldiers uses technology from Foreign Comparative Testing program FCT Dan Lafontaine C5ISR Center Public Affairs 17 Jan 2020 Army boosts Soldier battery power for greater lethality mobility by using silicon based anodes U S Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs 25 February 2020 Additive manufacturing to provide Soldiers with cutting edge munitions They printed the world s first 3 D hybrid microcontroller circuit on a hemisphere that survived high G environments NSRDEC Public Affairs 15 October 2018 Natick s exoskeleton work is a powerful step toward the future of Soldier lethality RDECOM Soldier Center Public Affairs Office 23 January 2019 Soldier Center partners with industry experts to advance exoskeleton technologies Harvard 17 Sep 2018 Multi joint Personalized Exosuit Breaks New Ground video clip David Roza 26 Aug 2022 The Army wants exoskeletons so soldiers can defeat their worst enemy Lower back pain Assistive technology adds 3 pounds of equipment but stabilizes lower back Jerilyn Coleman 28 Apr 2022 DEVCOM teams explore low cost lightweight sensors for warfighter use Chem Bio Center CBC sensors to detect possible hazardous contamination Thomas Brading Army News Service 29 August 2019 Army closer to delivering new infantry squad vehicle ISV 9 Soldiers of an infantry squad will maneuver in an ISV Plans to purchase 649 prototypes were approved in February 2019 3 industry leaders have been named 23 Aug 2019 to deliver ISV prototypes Oshkosh Defense Flyer GM Defense and SAIC Polaris Prototypes are due for initial assessment at Aberdeen Test Center 13 November 2019 through December 2019 At Fort Bragg a second round of operational testing by Soldiers will be performed on the candidate ISV prototypes Downselect to one vendor is expected 2nd Quarter of FY2020 Sydney J Freedberg Jr 8 October 2019 Who Will Build 651 Parachuting Trucks For The Army 2 air drop able prototypes from each vendor due 13 November 2019 Kyle Mizokami 13 Oct 2019 Meet the Army s New Airborne Trucks GM Defense LLC 8 Aug 2020 US Army Selects GM Design for Infantry Squad Vehicle Sydney J Freedberg Jr 27 October 2020 GM Defense Delivers 1st Air Droppable Trucks Cybersecurity is part of ISV electronics Kyle Mizokami 29 Oct 2020 Here It Is the Army s New Infantry Squad Vehicle Janes 21 Oct 2019 AUSA 2019 GM Defense s Infantry Squad Vehicle ISV for U S Army Youtube clip 9 27 No armor has Roll bars Ashley Roque 5 Apr 2023 US Army waves green flag for Infantry Squad Vehicle full rate production a b Sydney J Freedberg Jr 19 December 2019 AI amp Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame PM ITE October 2019 ONE SEMI AUTOMATED FORCES OneSAF Roger Smith 2008 OneSAF Next Generation Wargame Model pdf Austin gets its general Army Futures Command leader confirmed PN2622 Lt Gen John M Murray Army U S Congress 16 July 2018 Retrieved 17 July 2018 Jen Judson 12 Jul 2021 Army Futures Command chief on what his team got right and wrong since its founding Promotion Ceremony iho LTG James E Rainey DVIDS 7 October 2022 Retrieved 13 October 2022 TRADOC Regulation 10 5 1 G357 a b c James Kennedy 2019 Force Management Model Complete a b c United States Army War College and Army Force Management School 2019 2020 How the Army Runs HTAR A senior leader reference handbook which synthesizes existing and developing National Defense Joint and Army systems processes and procedures currently practiced James Kennedy Aug 2022 JCIDS ACIDS James Kennedy CGSC Jun 2022 AY22 Force Integration CGSC Weekly meetings on Change Crisis Competition or Conflict 50 31External links EditOfficial website 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