United States Army Futures Command Explained

Unit Name:United States Army Futures Command
Start Date:24 August 2018[1]
Type:Army command
Commander1 Label:Commanding general[2]
Commander1:GEN James E. Rainey[3]
Commander4 Label:Deputy to the Commander
Commander4:SES William "Willie" Nelson[4]
Commander2 Label:Deputy Commanding Generals
Commander2:LTG Richard R. Coffman
LTG David M. Hodne[5]
Commander3 Label:Command Sergeant Major
Commander3:CSM Brian A. Hester
Garrison:Austin, Texas
Motto:"Forge the future"
Identification Symbol Label:Distinctive unit insignia
Identification Symbol 2 Label:Beret flash

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

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] While the other commands focus on readiness to "fight tonight", AFC aims to improve future readiness for competition with near-peers.[8] [9] [10] The AFC commander functions as the Army's chief modernization investment officer.

It is supported by the United States Army Reserve Innovation Command (75th Innovation Command).[11]

History

2018

Army Futures Command was established by Secretary of the Army Mark Esper to improve Army acquisition by creating better requirements and reducing the time to develop a system to meet them. [12] [13] [14] [15] 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]

General Mark Milley, then Army Chief of Staff, helped establish the Army Futures Command.[23] Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy played a major role in its development. Its first commander was General John Murray,[24] formerly the Army's G-8.

Over his tenure as Army Secretary, Esper led a process known as "night court", working with other top service officials, to free up and shift billions of dollars into modernization programs and based the new command in Austin, Texas, an area known for its innovative, technology-focused workforce.[25] [26] [27] [28] 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:[29] Long-range precision fires, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, Future Vertical Lift platforms, a mobile & expeditionary Army network, air and missile defense capabilities,[30] and soldier lethality.

Murray announced plans to stand up an Army Applications Lab[31] to accelerate acquisition and deployment of materiel to the soldiers, including by using artificial intelligence (AI).[32]

Murray also said he would hire a chief technology officer for AFC.[33] [34]

A fundamental strategy was formulated, involving simultaneous integrated operations across domains.[35] [36] This strategy involves pushing adversaries to standoff, [37] [38] by presenting them with multiple simultaneous dilemmas.[39] [40] A goal is that by 2028, the ability to project rapid, responsive power across domains will have become apparent to potential adversaries.[41] [42]

In 2018, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Futures Command would have three areas of focus:[43]

  1. Futures and Concepts: assess gaps (needs versus opportunities, given a threat). Concepts for realizable future systems (with readily harvestable content)[44] [45] will flow into TRADOC doctrine, manuals, and training programs.
  2. Combat Development: stabilized concepts. 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.[46] (See Value stream)
  3. Combat Systems: experiments, demonstrations, and prototypes. Transition to the acquisition, production, and sustainment programs of AMC.[47]

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.[48] What has changed or will change is the layers of command (operational control, or OPCON) needed to make a decision.

2019

AFC declared its full operational capability in July 2019,[49] [50] after an initial one-year period.[51] The FY2020 military budget allocated $30 billion for the top six modernization priorities over next five years.[52] The $30 billion came from $8 billion in cost avoidance and $22 billion in terminations.[53] More than 30 projects[54] [55] were envisioned to become the materiel basis needed for overmatching any potential competitors in the 'continuum of conflict' over the next ten years[56] in multi-domain operations (MDO).[57]

From an initial 12 people at its headquarters in 2018, AFC grew to more than 17,000 people[58] across 25 states and 15 countries in 2019.[59] 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.

2020

ASA(ALT) Bruce Jette started xTechsearch to reward private innovators.[60] The COVID-19 pandemic led the Army to run an Ventilator Challenge.[61] TRX Systems won an award for technology that allows navigation in a GPS-denied environment.

2021

On 13 October 2021, Army officials said most of AFC's 31 signature systems,[62] and the four rapid capability projects of the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office would be fielded by fiscal year 2023.[63]

2022

In 2022, Army leaders projected that 24 of the top-35 priority modernization programs would be deployed by fiscal 2023.[64]

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced the top six areas for the Army of 2030:[65] [66] 1) improved intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; 2) "Coordination at greater speed"; 3) "Win the Fires fight"; 4) concealment[67] [68] via improved mobility and reduced signature; 5) "talk often and quickly"; and 6) logistics.[69] [70] [71] [72] [73]

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.[74] [75] [76] [77] [78]

In October 2022, Wormuth assigned AFC to work on "Army of 2040" concepts.[79] [80] [81] Two months later, Futures Command hosted a conference with representatives from AMC, TRADOC, FORSCOM, and Headquarters Department of the Army.[82] [83] [84] [85] AFC is leading the development of a new Army Operating Concept (v. 1.0) for the Army of 2030 to 2040.[86] [87]

2024

The 'All-domain sensing cross-functional team' (CFT) is standing up to support the plethora of data coming from data sources across the joint and combined services, allies, and partners.[88] This CFT is built from the existing PNT (positioning, navigation, and tracking) CFT.[88] See Combined JADC2. The contested logistics CFT was stood up in 2023.[89]

Organization

The commanding general is assisted by three deputy commanders.

Cross-functional teams

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.[106] [107] The 2023 exercises for IndoPacom will test its prepositioned stocks.[108] The CG of Army Materiel Command is taking the lead for contested logistics.[109]

In 2018, McCarthy characterized a CFT as a team of teams, led by a requirements leader, program manager, sustainer and tester.[110] Some CFTs also have representatives of U.S. allies.[111] Each CFT lead is mentored by a 4-star general.[112] Each CFT can have a Capability Development Integration Directorate. 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. 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.[113]

The Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) itself serves as a kind of CFT, operating at a higher level[114] [115] [116] [117] [118] as response to Congressional oversight, budgeting, funding, policy, and authorization for action.[119] [120] [121] [122]

AFC and the CFTs are expected to unify control of the Army' s $30 billion modernization budget.[123] [50]

Partners

AFC has given research funding to more than 300 colleges and universities with one-year program cycles.[124] "We will come to you. You don't have to come to us," Murray said on 24 August 2018",[125]

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

AFC will work with other organizations such as Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) as needed.[126]

Locations

AFC's headquarters is based in Austin, Texas where it spreads across three locations totaling 75,000 ft2; 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.[127] [128]

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

Work

AI

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.[168] [169] [170] [171] The Army AI task force establish scalable machine learning projects at Carnegie Mellon University.[172] [173]

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

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)[174] 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.[175] [176] [177] [178]

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").[179]

Software

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.[180] [181] [182] [183] [184] 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. The Al Work Force Development program and this Software Factory will complement the Artificial Intelligence Task Force.[185] The Army has identified soldiers who can already code at Ph.D.-level, but who are in unexpected MOSs.[186] In March 2023 the Marine Corps moved its software factory to the Army's software factory in Austin, Texas.[187]

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.[188] [189] [190] [191] 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).[192]

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.[193] In January 2020, the optionally manned fighting vehicle solicitation was cancelled when its requirements added up to an unobtainable project;[194]

Robotic combat vehicles By October 2021, experiments with a company-sized tele-operated / unmanned formation were underway at Camp Grayling, Michigan.[195] [196] [197] The 18 light and medium robotic combat vehicles (RCV), in concert with surrogate heavy RCVs (modified M113 armored personnel carriers), 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[197] and live-fire drills in August 2022.[197] [198]

By June 2022, Army RCVs had demonstrated some disruptive capabilities, 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.[199] [200] [201]

In May 2023, Army Futures Command disclosed concepts for robotic combat platoons,[202] akin to the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) of the Air Force.[203]

Acquisition

Futures Command works with the ASA(ALT),[204] [205] who as Army Acquisition Executive (AAE),[206] has milestone decision authority (MDA)[207] [208] at multiple points in a materiel development decision (MDD). 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). 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.[209] 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:[206] [210] [44] over 1,200 programs/projects were reviewed; by October 2019, over 600 programs of record had been moved from the acquisition phase to the sustainment phase.[211] An additional life cycle management action is underway, to re-examine which of these projects or programs should be cancelled.[211]

Futures Command picks which programs to develop.[211] [212] [213] Each CFT works with the Army Acquisition Corps,[214] [215] [216] [217] [218] [219] U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC), and Army Contracting Command.[210] The Principal Military Deputy to the ASA(ALT) is also deputy commanding general for Combat Systems, Army Futures Command,[206] 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.[220]

The PEOs work closely with their respective CFTs.[214] Operationally, the CFTs reduce degrees of separation between Army echelons,[112] and provide a point of contact for Army reformers.[221] [112]

Prototyping and experimentation

The development process will consist of one or more cycles (prototype, demonstration/testing, and evaluation,[222]) meant to find and discard unrealistic requirements before a project becomes a program.[208] "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.[223]

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

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,[224] [225] [226] The Army tripled its spending on speed and range capabilities from 2017 to 2019.[227] [228]

CFTs and PEOs order up tests run by JMC and White Sands Missile Range, which hosts United States Army Test and Evaluation Command.[229] [230] [231] [101] [232] Test results are analyzed by the Research and Analysis Center at Fort Leavenworth.[101]

CCDC, now called DEVCOM (formerly RDECOM, at APG) includes the several Army research laboratory locations,[233] as well as research, development and engineering centers listed:[234] [235]

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,[236] 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. Two dedicated RDECOM people support the LRPF CFT, with reachback support from two dozen more at RDECOM.[237] 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.[238]

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.[239]

Esper said AFC will reduce the time needed to define requirements for a new program from 60 to 12 months.[240] Requirements may be reduced to "a simple statement of a problem."[241] [242] [243] [244] 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.[245] [246]

Esper scrubbed through 800[247] modernization programs to reprioritize funding[248] for the top six modernization priorities,[123] which will consume 80% of the modernization funding,[249] of 18 systems. 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.[250]

Budgets will likely restrict the fielding of new materiel to one Armor BCT per year; at that rate, updates would take decades.[251]

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.

In February 2020, the Army vice chief of staff said Army modernization was perceptibly speeding up.[252]

This Life Cycle Management (formulated in 2004)[253] [254] was intended to exert the kind of operational control (OPCON)[255] needed just for the sustainment function (AMC's need for Readiness today),[245] 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.[211]

During 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.[256]

The CFTs must balance requirements, acquisition, science and technology, test, resourcing, costing, and sustainment.[113] [110]

Some modernization work will be done via the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and education, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) framework.[8] [257]

The plan is to have an MDO-capable Army by 2028 and an MDO-ready Army by 2035.[258]

In 2018, McConville said TRADOC, ASA (ALT), and AFC are tied together.[259] The ASA(ALT) will coordinate the acquisition reform with AFC.[208] He also said AFC will have to be "a little bit disruptive" to institute reforms within budget in a timely way.[260]

Congress has given the Army Other Transaction Authority (OTA),[261] 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. This strips out one layer of bureaucracy.[262] [263] Middle tier acquisition authority is another tool.[264] [265]

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.[266] Requirements are developed by the Cross-functional team (CFT).[267] In 2019 RCO became the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO).[268]

In 2019, Futures Command was formulating multiyear enterprise campaign plans.[269] [270] 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.[271] [272] [273] [274] [275] By October 2022 Field Manual 3-0 said "Multi-domain Operations are at the root of all Army operations".[276] [277]

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. By 2021, Army leaders recognized that the multi-domain operations task force[278] could do so.[279]

Planning for the Army of 2040 is underway.[280]

Futures

[283] the Strategic long range cannon (SLRC), for a hypersonic projectile,[284] [285] is meant to have a range up to 1,000 nautical miles.[286] An early ballistic test took place at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, as announced at AUSA in October 2019.[287] SLRC was cancelled in March 2022.[288]

In February 2024 the department of the Air Force announced its intention to create the Space Futures Command.[362] [363] The US Air Force is seeking to launch Integrated Capabilities Command by year-end 2024 to set future requirements for the USAF.[364]

List of commanding generals

Lieutenant General John M. Murray became Army Futures Command's first commanding general upon its activation on 24 August 2018.[365] [366] [367] [119] [120] [121] [122] Lieutenant General James E. Rainey (promoted to general on 7 October 2022)[368] became AFC's second commanding general on 4 October 2022.

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See also

External links

Notes and References

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  3. Web site: About - U.S. Army Futures Command. 2021-12-03. U.S. Army. 8 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220708144726/https://www.army.mil/futures#org-about. live.
  4. Army Futures Command (6 Jun 2023) Installation ceremony for SES T3, Mr. William Nelson as the Deputy to the Commanding General of Army Futures Command Nelson to serve at the Pentagon for AFC
  5. Army Futures Command Meet Our Leadership
  6. US Army News: 13 July 2018 . Army announces Austin as the home of new Army Futures Command . C-SPAN . 17 July 2018 . 17 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180717185238/https://www.army.mil/article/208477/army_announces_austin_as_the_home_of_new_army_futures_command . live .
  7. Web site: Organization The United States Army . 2023-10-03 . Organization The United States Army . en . 8 July 2003 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030708025938/https://www.army.mil/organization/ . live .
  8. Web site: The number one priority: An interview with Gen. Mark Milley . 2023-10-03 . www.army.mil . en . 1 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401183412/https://www.army.mil/article/219028/the_number_one_priority_an_interview_with_gen_mark_milley . live .
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  10. Sébastien Roblin (11 Oct. 2019) China's stealth drones and hypersonic missiles surpass—and threaten—the U.S.
  11. Web site: 75th Innovation Command Page - About Us . 2021-02-12 . US Army Reserve . 20 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210420232632/https://www.usar.army.mil/Commands/Functional/75th-Innovation-CMD/About-Us/ . live .
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  15. Web site: Cox . Matthew . 2018-07-13 . It's Official: Austin Is Home of New Army Futures Command . 2023-11-26 . Military.com . en . 27 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230827085359/https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/07/13/its-official-austin-home-new-army-futures-command.html . live .
  16. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (8 August 2014) Pentagon Struggles To Get Small-Biz Tech : FCS misuse of OTA, other acquisition issues.
  17. Dan Lamothe Washington Post (2018-07-12) Army to unveil details about new Futures Command in biggest reorganization in 45 years
  18. Web site: Thomas E. Ricks (MARCH 2, 2015)Why hasn't the Army's regular acquisition process produced anything in decades? --Future of War conference. . 5 September 2018 . 5 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180905180206/https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/02/why-hasnt-the-armys-regular-acquisition-process-produced-anything-in-decades/ . live .
  19. Matthew Cox (28 April 2018) How Future Combat Systems Failed
  20. Arpi Dilanian and Matthew Howard Army.mil (6 September 2018) Safer, smarter, faster: An interview with Gen. James McConville
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  23. Web site: Jr . Sydney J. Freedberg . 2018-08-24 . How McCain & Milley Created Army Futures Command: It Almost Didn't Happen . 2023-06-12 . Breaking Defense . en-US . 8 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240308161714/https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/how-mccain-milley-created-army-futures-command-it-almost-didnt-happen/ . live .
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  25. Jen Judson (28 Aug 2018) Can Austin make the Army weird?
  26. Web site: Judson . Jen . 2018-10-09 . Army's 'night court' finds $25 billion to reinvest in modernization priorities . 2023-11-26 . Defense News . en . 7 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240207060631/https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2018/10/08/armys-night-court-finds-25-billion-to-reinvest-in-modernization-priorities/ . live .
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  28. Web site: Beinart . Matthew . 2019-02-08 . Esper: Army Cut $25 Billion From Low-Tier Programs To Fund Modernization Priorities . 2023-11-26 . Defense Daily . en-US . 26 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231126203927/https://www.defensedaily.com/esper-army-cut-25-billion-low-tier-programs-fund-modernization-priorities/army/ . live .
  29. 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 ' ... '
  30. MG Cedric T. Wins (09.10.2019) CCDC'S road map to modernizing the Army: air and missile defense DVIDS release
  31. 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
  32. Kelley M. Sayler, CRS (10 Nov 2020) Artificial Intelligence and National Security R45178
  33. Lauren C. Williams (14 Sep 2018) Army Futures Command to set up DIU-like innovation lab
  34. C5ISR Web site: Army leaders get firsthand look at C5ISR Center research, development projects . 2021-12-15 . www.army.mil . 7 November 2019 . en . 23 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191123004457/https://www.army.mil/article/229590/army_leaders_get_firsthand_look_at_c5isr_center_research_development_projects . live .
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  37. CRS Insight (IN11019) (17 January 2019) The U.S. Army and Multi-Domain Operations Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  38. Yasmin Tadjdeh (10/10/2018) Army to Focus on Defeating Enemies' Standoff Capabilities Summary of standoff
  39. 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
  40. Sydney Freedberg, Jr. (2021) Army Chief To Navy, Air Force: We've Got 'Speed & Range' "The future is all about range and speed" —Gen. McConville
  41. 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
  42. Chief of Staff paper #2 (1 March 2021) The Army in Military Competition
  43. Sydney Freedberg, Jr. (26 March 2018) Army Outlines Futures Command; Org Chart In Flux
  44. Lt. Col. Thomas "Bull" Holland, PhD, U.S. Army (15 January 2019) Proposed Army Futures Command Process Tenets
    1. 'Scientific research is a fundamentally different activity than technology development';
    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';
  45. 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&D See Appendix B p.615 for DOD Financial Management Regulation (Volume 2B, Chapter 5)
  46. 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.
  47. [ASA(ALT)]
  48. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (7 May 2018) Permanent Evolution: SecArmy Esper On Futures Command
  49. Scott Maucione (19 July 2019) Army Futures Command fully operational, dinged by GAO on announcement
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  53. Sydney J Freedberg Jr (29 May 2019) Army Big 6 Gets $10B More Over 2021-2025
  54. [Michael A. Grinston]
  55. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (19 September 2019) Can Army Control Costs Of Its New Weapons? Currently the Army has 692 programs of record
  56. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (11 January 2019) 12 Moments Of Truth For Army Modernization In 2019
  57. MDO Challenge (15 May 2019) *Start here* MDO 101 General explanation of multi-domain operations (MDO) for the layman
  58. America's Future Series (April 2023) GEN Mike Murray - Army Futures Command "What we got right"
  59. Sean Kimmons
  60. Futures Command (2022) xTechSearch The Army's ongoing search for capabilities
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  65. Andrew Eversden (15 Sep 2022) Wormuth: Here are the 6 areas the Army must be prepared for in 2030
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  67. Patrick Tucker (14 Sep 2022) Ukraine War Offers Clues to Future War, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says
  68. The Economist (30 Nov 2022) What is the war in Ukraine teaching Western armies? "It shows the importance of dispersal, firepower and stockpiles"
  69. Joe Lacdan, Army News Service (24 Oct 2022) Army of 2030: Collaboration key to Army modernization
  70. 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)
  71. 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".
  72. Jen Judson (29 Mar 2023) US Army has a 'gigantic problem' with logistics in the Indo-Pacific AMC is lead, AFC sets requirements
  73. TRADOC (13 Apr 2022) The Operational Environment and the Changing Character of Warfare TP 525-92
  74. Colin Demarest (21 Oct 2022) Project Convergence shows JADC2 alignment, leaders from 3 services say Interoperations "show the services are aligned and not disjointed".
  75. Jason Cutshaw (5 Dec 2022) Experiment demos Army space capabilities to test 300 technologies
  76. Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest (8 Dec 2022) Project Overmatch: US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech
  77. Jen Judson (7 Feb 2023) Army sets sights on 2024 for next Project Convergence
  78. Ashley Roque (8 Feb 2023) No Convergence in 2023: Army deliberating the path ahead for signature JADC2 exercise
  79. Signal (10 Oct 2022) The Army Takes an Extended View to 2040
  80. Jaspreet Gill (19 Oct 2022) As Project Convergence tries new 'tech gateways', 2 AI algorithms to transition to programs of record Todd Army 2040
  81. Parth Satam (15 Nov 2022) Decoding HIMARS' 'Design Philosophy', Latest Images Show Russia Could Be Analyzing Deadly US Rockets
  82. Maureena Thompson, Army Futures Command (3 January 2023) AFC hosts inaugural Army Future Readiness Conference
  83. Jen Judson (8 Feb 2023) New Futures Command chief shifts main effort to designing Army of 2040
  84. 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 during its modernization push".
  85. Jen Judson (4 Apr 2023) The US Army moves to tweak its formations for future conflicts AFC to work with TRADOC
  86. Jen Judson (31 July 2023) Army Futures Command drafting next operating concept
  87. Joe Lacdan, Army News Service (19 May 2023) LANPAC 2023: Army faces most 'disruptive' period since World War II
  88. Ashley Rocque (Army creates new 'All-Domain Sensing' cross-functional team out of 'success' of PNT team
  89. Ashley Rocque (9 Oct 2023) Army’s contested logistics team close to ‘fully’ operational: General Rainey
  90. Army Futures Command YouTube clip (7 December 2018) ARCIC Transition of Authority Ceremony 7 Dec 2018 to Futures and Concepts Center, AFC
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  93. 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.
  94. BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN, ANDREW DESIDERIO, LARA SELIGMAN and ERIN BANCO (22 Apr 2021) Pentagon investigated suspected Russian directed-energy attacks on U.S. troops
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  97. Argie Sarantinos-Perrin, CCDC HQ Public Affairs (31 January 2019) RDECOM transitions to Army Futures Command
  98. Sydney Freedberg (10 Dec 2018) US Army's Brain Transplant: Futurists Move To Futures Command
  99. Web site: TRAC makes official move to Futures Command . 2021-12-25 . www.army.mil . 6 December 2018 . en . 9 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181209130034/https://www.army.mil/article/214721/trac_makes_official_move_to_futures_command . live .
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  103. Myers (27 March 2018) Abrams: Army units will be tasked to work on each of Futures Command's priorities
  104. Arpi Dilanian and Matthew Howard (18 July 2019) The Cheese Has Moved: An Interview With Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski
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  108. Ashley Roque (31 Mar 2023) Army to use Pacific Pathways to test assumptions about ‘contested logistics,’ prepositioned stocks
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  116. Research, Development, and Acquisition (22 Jul 2011) Army Acquisition Policy AR 70-1
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  124. SARA ARL (29 Jun 2021) Army program introduces new software for robot autonomy AIMM ERP (Artificial Intelligence for Maneuver and Mobility Essential Research Program)
  125. Sean Kimmons
  126. Technology Review (19 December 2016) The Pentagon's Innovation Experiment
  127. University of Texas System (13 July 2018) University of Texas System to serve as home base for U.S. Army Futures Command
  128. Ralph K.M. Haurwitz - American-Statesman Staff (10 August 2018) UT regents give Army's Futures Command free use of space temporarily
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  156. 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)
  157. Caitlin O'Neill, PM PNT staff writer (17 November 2017) Army's PNT programs transition to PEO IEW&S
  158. 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"
  159. Andrew Eversden (25 Oct 2021) Army Seeks 'Cutting Edge' Network-Aided PNT Technologies For Battle
  160. Theresa Hitchens (1 Nov 2021) Sandia's Atomic 'Avocado' Could Allow GPS-Free PNT
  161. Tobias Naegele (27 Nov 2022) Q&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
  162. RCCTO is located in Huntsville (26 August 2019): RCCTO- About us
  163. Thomas Brading, Army News Service (23 August 2019) Soldiers 'at the heart of' modernizing warfighter gear
  164. Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs (25 February 2019) Army-funded researcher wins Nobel Prize
  165. Argie Sarantinos-Perrin, CCDC (21 August 2019) Army develops cold spray technology to repair Bradley gun mounts
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  170. 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
  171. Terri Moon Cronk
  172. 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)
  173. 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
  174. 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)
  175. U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs (27 February 2020) Army researchers enhance AI critical to Soldier-machine teamwork Explainability & tellability: coalition situational understanding (CSU) & human-agent knowledge fusion (HAKF)
  176. RDECOM Research Laboratory Public Affairs (18 December 2018) Black Hawk helicopter pilot interns with Army researchers
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  179. Kaylan Hutchison, DAC Strategic Communications (22 Jun 2022) Collaborative agreement propels Army analysis of artificial intelligence
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  184. USAF Assistant Secretary of Acquisition, Chief Software Office (19 Dec 2019) SpaceCAMP USAF Software Factory
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  186. Colin Clark (8 Aug 2021) Wormuth Hints At Cuts To 35 Core Army Modernization Programs
  187. 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.
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  190. 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
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  192. Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (3 August 2018) Army leveraging industry ideas to modernize network
  193. 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
  194. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (21 January 2020) Army 'Fully Committed To Replacing The Bradley': Gen. McConville Bradley fighting vehicle replacement is still a project
  195. Andrew Eversden (22 Nov 2021) Robotic vehicles, drones coordinate recon at Army's Project Convergence 21
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  248. Jen Judson (17 July 2018) US Army asks Congress to shift millions in FY18 dollars. What's behind the request?
  249. David Vergun (5 September 2018) Richardson confirmed as Futures Command deputy commander
  250. 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
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  263. 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)
  264. Mr. Kinsey Kiriakos (ASA (ALT)) (20 November 2019) Army Acquisition Leaders Must "Speak Truth To Power" MTA and OTA
  265. 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.
  266. Jen Judson (26 March 2018) The next Army program executive office will be the Rapid Capabilities Office
  267. Jen Judson (7 Oct 2018) Army Rapid Capabilities Office realigned to focus on top modernization priorities
  268. RCO RCCTO (2019) Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office
  269. Phil Fountain, U.S. Army Futures Command (7 August 2019) Army Futures Command charts a campaign plan No uniforms
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  272. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (14 Oct 2020) Army Seeks Open Architecture For All Air & Ground Systems: Jette In the spirit of MOSA, JADC2, & 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)
  273. 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".
  274. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (13 Nov 2020) QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army: RCV-L uses UGV Interoperability Profile
  275. Katherine Spivey and Wendy Wagner-Smith (19 May 2021) Positioning Yourself as a Plain Language Editor
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  283. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (22 August 2018) Army Warhead Is Key To Joint Hypersonics
  284. 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
  285. Matthew Cox (14 September 2018) The Army is developing a new strategic cannon to devastate targets over 1,000 miles away
  286. Sean Gallagher (10/15/2019) Bringing in the big gun: Army paves way for "strategic cannon"
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  288. Jen Judson (23 Mar 2022) US Army terminates science and technology effort for strategic long-range cannon
  289. Eric Kowal (August 27, 2020) By Improving Artillery Shells, Picatinny Engineers Seek to Greatly Extend Range of Cannon Artillery
  290. Richard P. Hansen, Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (August 19, 2020) Scranton Army Ammunition Plant Manufactures and Ships Large-Caliber Ammunition Metal Parts
  291. Ashley Rocque (11 Mar 2024) Army’s $186B budget request shuffles artillery, aviation plans
  292. Ashley Rocque (26 Mar 2024) Towed artillery has reached 'end of the effectiveness', Army four-star declares Rainey
  293. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (19 March 2019) Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances
  294. Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (11 September 2018) Aiming The Army's Thousand-Mile Missiles Multi-domain Ft Sill
  295. 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
  296. Monica K. Guthrie, LRPF communications director (9 October 2019) Army Futures Command gains new general
  297. Daniel Cebul (8 Oct 2018) Army looks to a future of integrated fire
  298. 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
  299. 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)"
  300. [Scott McKean]
  301. 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
  302. Office of the Chief of Public Affairs (10.16.2019) 2019 AUSA Warriors Corner - TacticalSpace: Delivering Future Force Space Capabilities
      1. Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing
      2. Tactical Space: SDA is structuring a multi-layer satellite system:
        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
        4. Space situational awareness for cis-lunar trajectories,
      3. NavWar
  303. ARL Public Affairs (16 October 2018) Researchers develop technique to locate robots, Soldiers in GPS-challenged environments
  304. Joe Lacdan, Army News Service (10 June 2019) Army leaders: Space tech crucial to future combat
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  306. Thomas Brading, Army News Service (7 October 2019) Army fields anti-jam GPS, plans for thousands more by 2028
  307. Dan Lafontaine, CCDC C5ISR Center Public Affairs (17 June 2019) Futures Command looks to enable plug-and-play PNT across Army platforms
  308. Theresa Hitchens and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (7 August 2019) Army Seeks Small Satellites To Support Ground Troops 3 programs: Gunsmoke, Lonestar and Polaris.
  309. Gary Sheftick, Army News Service (10 March 2020) Army looks to leverage 'low Earth orbit' satellites: LEO satellites orbit 100-1200 miles above Earth
  310. CCDC Army Research Laboratory (29 August 2019) Army scientists discover a new way for robots to exchange directed messages
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  312. 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
  313. Michael Howard (11 September 2020) Technology Providing Navigation in GPS-Denied Environment wins Grand Prize in xTechSearch Competition
  314. Sydney J Freedberg Jr.
  315. Jen Judson (27 March 2019) Army debuts missile defense framework in move to counter drones, hypersonic threats
  316. Paul McLeary (17 January 2019) Missile Defense Review a Multi-Billion IOU to White House
  317. Miles Brown (5 July 2019) Aviation, missile commander addresses workforce CG Todd Royar's statement of his expectations
  318. PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE MISSILES AND SPACE (2018) Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Program Overview
  319. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (1 October 2018) Army Awards Northrop $289M For IBCS Missile Defense Network
  320. Web site: Army leaders say service must shore up its space defense. Joe. Lacdan. 19 June 2019. Army News Service. I Corps has I2CEWS Battalion or Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Battalion. https://web.archive.org/web/20190623002507/http://fortblissbugle.com/2019/06june/062019/pdf/062019part1b.pdf. 23 June 2019. 30 September 2023. (Fyi: the "original" link at "fortblissbugle.com" is now a gaming site. Only use the archive link.).
  321. Jason Cutshaw (SMDC/ARSTRAT) (21 February 2019) SMDC supports the development of I2CEWS battalions for multi-domain operations
  322. Gary Sheftick, Army News Service (13 March 2019) FY20 budget to boost air & missile defense
  323. Sean Kimmons, Army News Service Web site: Joint hypersonic weapon tests to start next year . 2021-12-15 . www.army.mil . 8 October 2019 . en.
  324. 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
  325. Dan Gouré (20 Mar 2020) SOCOM Has Solved the Military's 'Tower of Babel' Problem
  326. 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.
  327. Claire Heininger (9 August 2018) Army, Air Force team on sensor to shooter prototype for multi-domain battle
  328. Mark Pomerleau (11 April 2018) In the move to multi-domain operations, what gets lost? The space, cyber, and information domains transcend geographic AoRs
  329. Dan Gouré (2 August 2019) Army Futures Command's Report Card After Its First Year Need: MDO doctrine in DoD, Two theater operation at island & continent, augment BCTs with higher echelon capability
  330. ARL (24 September 2018) New Army technology guides Soldiers in complete darkness
  331. Andrew Eversden (18 Oct 2021) Army Says Next-Gen AR Goggles Delayed Over Field Of View Issues
  332. Joe Lacdan (13 May 2019) Augmented reality training on the horizon to give Soldiers edge in combat allows repetition, for training
  333. Tom McKay (6 April 2019) The Army Just Gave a Press Demo of Microsoft's HoloLens 2 Military Prototype
  334. 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
  335. 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"
  336. 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
  337. 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
  338. Thomas Brading, Army News Service (10 February 2020) New technology recognizes faces in the dark, far away Combines night vision with facial recognition
  339. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (5 October 2020) From 'Frankengoggle' To Battle-Ready: Army IVAS waterproof IVAS
  340. Adam Stone (30 Sep 2021) US Army makes headway on Synthetic Training Environment
  341. Andrew Eversden (1 Dec 2021) Wormuth: Here's the Army's role in a Pacific fight
  342. 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
  343. Caitlin M Kenney (1 Dec 2021) Army Would Have 5 'Core Tasks' in a Pacific Conflict
  344. Ashley Rocque (15 May 2024) If Army's IVAS doesn't ace upcoming test, it could become bill payer: Rainey
  345. Thomas Brading, Army News Service (6 February 2020) Army scientists on verge of nearly unbreakable battery First announced in 2015
  346. 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)
  347. CCDC Army Research Laboratory March 2020) Researchers imagine devices without cords or batteries Molybdenum disulphide
  348. 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)
  349. Dan Lafontaine, C5ISR Center Public Affairs (17 Jan 2020) Army boosts Soldier battery power for greater lethality, mobility by using silicon-based anodes
  350. 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".
  351. NSRDEC Public Affairs (15 October 2018) Natick's exoskeleton work is a powerful step toward the future of Soldier lethality
  352. RDECOM Soldier Center, Public Affairs Office (23 January 2019) Soldier Center partners with industry experts to advance exoskeleton technologies
  353. Harvard (17 Sep 2018) Multi-joint Personalized Exosuit Breaks New Ground video clip
  354. 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
  355. 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
  356. 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
      1. Oshkosh Defense/Flyer,
      2. GM Defense, and
      3. 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
  357. 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,
  358. Kyle Mizokami (13 Oct 2019) Meet the Army's New Airborne Trucks
  359. GM Defense LLC (8 Aug 2020) US Army Selects GM Design for Infantry Squad Vehicle
  360. Ashley Roque (5 Apr 2023) US Army waves green flag for Infantry Squad Vehicle full-rate production
  361. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (19 December 2019) AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame
  362. Michael Marrow and Theresa Hitchens (12 February 2024) Air Force launches reorganization, as Kendall warns 'We are out of time' to match China
  363. Unshin Lee Harpley (12 February 2024) Saltzman Announces Fourth Space Force Field Command: Space Futures Command
  364. Stephen Losey (3 May 2024) US Air Force eyes deadline to launch new command Integrated Capabilities Command up and running by year-end 2024; responsible for future requirements for USAF.
  365. https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2018/08/22/austin-gets-its-general-army-futures-command.html Austin gets its general; Army Futures Command leader confirmed
  366. Web site: 16 July 2018 . PN2622—Lt. Gen. John M. Murray—Army . 17 July 2018 . U.S. Congress.
  367. Jen Judson (12 Jul 2021) Army Futures Command chief on what his team got right — and wrong — since its founding
  368. Web site: Promotion Ceremony iho LTG James E. Rainey. 7 October 2022. 13 October 2022. DVIDS.

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