U.S. Army Futures Command - Biblioteka.sk

Upozornenie: Prezeranie týchto stránok je určené len pre návštevníkov nad 18 rokov!
Zásady ochrany osobných údajov.
Používaním tohto webu súhlasíte s uchovávaním cookies, ktoré slúžia na poskytovanie služieb, nastavenie reklám a analýzu návštevnosti. OK, súhlasím

Odborná literatúra, audioknihy, eknihy:


Kategórie (12):


















© Beletria.sk

Panta Rhei Doprava Zadarmo
...
...


A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

U.S. Army Futures Command
 ...

United States Army Futures Command
AFC's shoulder sleeve insignia[1]
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 David M. Hodne[4]
Command Sergeant Major[5]CSM Brian A. Hester
Deputy to the Commander[5]SES William "Willie" Nelson[6]
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia[1]
Beret flash

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

The AFC began initial operations on 1 July 2018.[7] It was created as a peer of Forces Command (FORSCOM), Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and Army Materiel Command (AMC).[8][9] While the other commands focus on readiness to "fight tonight", AFC aims to improve future readiness for competition with near-peers.[10][11][12] The AFC commander functions as the Army's chief modernization investment officer.[13][14]: Section 4 [Note 1][15]

It is supported by the United States Army Reserve Innovation Command (75th Innovation Command).[16]

History

See also: Transformation of the United States Army § Four Army commands

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. [17] [18][19] [20]Between 1995 and 2009, the Army spent $32 billion on programs such as the Future Combat System[21] that were later cancelled with no harvestable content.[22] As of 2021, the Army had not fielded a new combat system in decades.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

General Mark Milley, then Army Chief of Staff, helped establish the Army Futures Command.[29] Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy played a major role in its development. Its first commander was General John Murray,[30] formerly the Army's G-8.[a]

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.[31] [32][33][34]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,[35] 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). [36][37]

Murray also said he would hire a chief technology officer for AFC.[13][38]

A fundamental strategy was formulated, involving simultaneous integrated operations across domains.[39][40] This strategy involves pushing adversaries to standoff,[b] [43][42] by presenting them with multiple simultaneous dilemmas.[44][45][c] A goal is that by 2028, the ability to project rapid, responsive power across domains will have become apparent to potential adversaries.[46][47][d]

In 2018, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Futures Command would have three areas of focus:[48]

  1. Futures and Concepts: assess gaps (needs versus opportunities,[15] given a threat).[48] Concepts for realizable future systems (with readily harvestable content)[49][50]: for definitions of terms, such as '6.3'  will flow into TRADOC doctrine, manuals, and training programs.[a]
  2. Combat Development: stabilized concepts.[49][50] 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.[51][e][f] (See Value stream)
  3. Combat Systems: experiments, demonstrations, and prototypes.[52] Transition to the acquisition, production, and sustainment programs of AMC.[53][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.[57] What has changed or will change is the layers of command (operational control, or OPCON)[58] needed to make a decision.[57]

2019

AFC declared its full operational capability in July 2019,[59][60] after an initial one-year period.[61] The FY2020 military budget allocated $30 billion for the top six modernization priorities over next five years.[62] The $30 billion came from $8 billion in cost avoidance and $22 billion in terminations.[62][63] More than 30 projects[64][65] were envisioned to become the materiel basis needed for overmatching any potential competitors in the 'continuum of conflict' over the next ten years[27][66] in multi-domain operations (MDO).[67]

From an initial 12 people at its headquarters in 2018, AFC grew to more than 17,000 people[68] across 25 states and 15 countries in 2019.[69] 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.[70]

2020

ASA(ALT) Bruce Jette started xTechsearch to reward private innovators.[71][i] The COVID-19 pandemic led the Army to run an xTechsearch Ventilator Challenge.[73] TRX Systems won an xTechsearch 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,[74] and the four rapid capability projects of the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office would be fielded by fiscal year 2023.[75][e][f]

2022

In 2022, Army leaders projected that 24 of the top-35 priority modernization programs would be deployed by fiscal 2023.[92]

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced the top six areas for the Army of 2030:[93][94]: minute 43:30  1) improved intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; 2) "Coordination at greater speed";[c] 3) "Win the Fires fight"; 4) concealment[95][96] via improved mobility and reduced signature; 5) "talk often and quickly";[97][j] and 6) logistics.[93][98][46][47] [99][100] [101] [102]

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.[103][104][105][106][107]

In October 2022, Wormuth assigned AFC to work on "Army of 2040" concepts.[a][108][94]: minute 51:00 [98][109][110] Two months later, Futures Command hosted a conference with representatives from AMC, TRADOC, FORSCOM, and Headquarters Department of the Army.[111][112][113][114] AFC is leading the development of a new Army Operating Concept (v. 1.0) for the Army of 2030 to 2040.[115][116][a]

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.[117] This CFT is built from the existing PNT (positioning, navigation, and tracking) CFT.[117] See Combined JADC2. The contested logistics CFT was stood up in 2023.[118][101]

Organization

The commanding general is assisted by three deputy commanders.

  • Combat Development:[127][128][119] 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.
  • 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.[142]
    • Combat Systems refines, engineers, and produces the developed solutions from Combat Development.[143][144]
Multi-domain operations (MDO): Friendly forces (denoted in black)[145] 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.[67][146][147]

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.[148][101][149] The 2023 exercises for IndoPacom will test its prepositioned stocks.[150] The CG of Army Materiel Command is taking the lead for contested logistics.[151]

In 2018, McCarthy characterized a CFT as a team of teams, led by a requirements leader, program manager, sustainer and tester.[152] Some CFTs also have representatives of U.S. allies.[153][60] Each CFT lead is mentored by a 4-star general.[154] 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.[154] 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.[155]

The Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) itself serves as a kind of CFT,[a] operating at a higher level[156][157][139][158][159][160] as response to Congressional oversight, budgeting, funding, policy, and authorization for action.[49][50][161][140][162][163][164]

AFC and the CFTs are expected to unify control of the Army' s $30 billion modernization budget.[165][60]

Multi-domain operations (MDO)[h] span multiple domains: cislunar space, land, air, maritime, cyber, and populations.[166]: minute 17:45 [167][168][169] 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

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[60] with one-year program cycles.[172] "We will come to you. You don't have to come to us," Murray said on 24 August 2018"[61]: minute 6:07 ,[173]

Multiple incubator tech hubs are available in Austin,[174] especially Capital Factory, with offices of Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and AFWERX (USAF tech hub).[130]

AFC will work with other organizations such as Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) as needed.[121][175]

Locations

AFC's headquarters is based in Austin, Texas where it spreads across three locations totaling 75,000 ft2;[173] 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.[176][177]

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"[178][179] 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.[180] 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)[181]

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.[228][229][36][230] The Army AI task force establish scalable machine learning projects at Carnegie Mellon University.[231][232]

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)[233] 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.[234][235][236][237]

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").[238]

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.[239][240][241][242][243] 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.[239] The Al Work Force Development program and this Software Factory will complement the Artificial Intelligence Task Force.[240][244] The Army has identified soldiers who can already code at Ph.D.-level, but who are in unexpected MOSs.[245] In March 2023 the Marine Corps moved its software factory to the Army's software factory in Austin, Texas.[246]

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.[197][247][248][249] 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).[250]

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.[89] In January 2020, the optionally manned fighting vehicle solicitation was cancelled when its requirements added up to an unobtainable project;[251]

Robotic combat vehicles
Robotic combat vehicle (RCV)
Project Origin unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany[252][253][254]

By October 2021, experiments with a company-sized tele-operated / unmanned formation were underway at Camp Grayling, Michigan.[255][254][256][257] 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[257] and live-fire drills in August 2022.[257][258]

By June 2022, Army RCVs had demonstrated some disruptive capabilities,[252] 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.[259]: min 25:30 [260][261][262]

In May 2023, Army Futures Command disclosed concepts for robotic combat platoons,[263] akin to the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) of the Air Force.[264]

Acquisition

Futures Command works with the ASA(ALT),[265][266] who as Army Acquisition Executive (AAE),[14] has milestone decision authority (MDA)[52][28] at multiple points in a materiel development decision (MDD).[267] 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).[268] 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.[268] 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:[14][267][49] over 1,200 programs/projects were reviewed;[269] by October 2019, over 600 programs of record had been moved from the acquisition phase to the sustainment phase.[269] An additional life cycle management action is underway, to re-examine which of these projects or programs should be cancelled.[269]

Futures Command picks which programs to develop.[269][270][271][15] Each CFT works with the Army Acquisition Corps,[272][273][274][275][276][277] U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC), and Army Contracting Command.[267] The Principal Military Deputy to the ASA(ALT) is also deputy commanding general for Combat Systems, Army Futures Command,[14] 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.[137]

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.[48]

— Defense Secretary Mark Esper

The PEOs work closely with their respective CFTs.[272] Operationally, the CFTs reduce degrees of separation between Army echelons,[154] and provide a point of contact for Army reformers.[15][154]

Prototyping and experimentation

The development process will consist of one or more cycles (prototype, demonstration/testing, and evaluation,[54][278]) meant to find and discard unrealistic requirements before a project becomes a program.[60][28] "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.[279][f]

AFC activities include at least one cross-functional team, its capability development integration directorate (CDID),[280]: Para. 2b  and the associated Battle Lab,[280]: 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.[132]

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,[281][282][283] The Army tripled its spending on speed and range capabilities from 2017 to 2019.[284][209][285][286][287]

CFTs and PEOs order up tests run by JMC and White Sands Missile Range, which hosts United States Army Test and Evaluation Command.[182][9][288][132][289] Test results are analyzed by the Research and Analysis Center at Fort Leavenworth.[132]

CCDC, now called DEVCOM (formerly RDECOM, at APG) includes the several Army research laboratory locations,[290] as well as research, development and engineering centers listed:[280][132][291]

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,[221] 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.[221] Two dedicated RDECOM people support the LRPF CFT, with reachback support from two dozen more at RDECOM.[292] 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.[133][291]

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.[293]

Esper said AFC will reduce the time needed to define requirements for a new program from 60 to 12 months.[294][10][58] Requirements may be reduced to "a simple statement of a problem."[295]: minute 41:50 [296][61]: minute 11:00 [122][297][291][49] 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.[298][299][272]

Esper scrubbed through 800[300] modernization programs to reprioritize funding[301] for the top six modernization priorities,[165] which will consume 80% of the modernization funding,[302] of 18 systems.[302] 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.[303]

Budgets will likely restrict the fielding of new materiel to one Armor BCT per year;[304] at that rate, updates would take decades.[304][305]

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.[59]

In February 2020, the Army vice chief of staff said Army modernization was perceptibly speeding up.[306]

This Life Cycle Management (formulated in 2004)[307][308] was intended to exert the kind of operational control (OPCON)[58] needed just for the sustainment function (AMC's need for Readiness today),[298] 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.[269][28][a]

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.[309]

The CFTs must balance requirements, acquisition, science and technology, test, resourcing, costing, and sustainment.[155][152][Note 2]

Some modernization work will be done via the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and education, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) framework.[10][310]

The plan is to have an MDO-capable Army by 2028[d] and an MDO-ready Army by 2035.[310][311]

In 2018, McConville said TRADOC, ASA (ALT), and AFC are tied together.[312] The ASA(ALT) will coordinate the acquisition reform with AFC.[280]: Para. 1c [266][28] He also said AFC will have to be "a little bit disruptive" to institute reforms within budget in a timely way.[313]

Congress has given the Army Other Transaction Authority (OTA),[314][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.[137] This strips out one layer of bureaucracy.[137][315][316] Middle tier acquisition authority is another tool.[317][318]

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.[319] Requirements are developed by the Cross-functional team (CFT).[320] In 2019 RCO became the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO).[321]

In 2019, Futures Command was formulating multiyear enterprise campaign plans.[322][185] 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.[322][97][323][262][324][325] By October 2022 Field Manual 3-0 said "Multi-domain Operations are at the root of all Army operations".[326]: § 1-11, p.1-3 [327]: 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.[11] By 2021, Army leaders recognized that the multi-domain operations task force[328] could do so.[329]: min 30:45 [c]

Planning for the Army of 2040 is underway.[115][a][330]

Futures

XM1113 extended range artillery round, shown here at a range demonstration, uses a rocket-assist motor
  • Long-range precision fires developments include[m]:[333][334]
  • Mobile & Expeditionary Network[123] / MDO Multi-domain operations[39][304]
    • Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT)[167][350][351]
      • 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.[278] 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.[357]
      • A Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) is under development.[358][359][249]
        • 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[360]
      • 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).[361]
      • 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".[362]
      • ARL's Army Research Office is seeking diamond colloids, microscopic spheres which can assemble bottom-up into promising structures for laser action.[363]
      • 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.[364]
  • Air, Missile Defense:[334][344][345][365][366][367][368] An Integrated Air and Missile Battle Command System (IBCS)[369] award, including next software build.[370][344][345] of $238 million also funds initial prototypes of the command and control system for fielding in fiscal 2022.[371]
      • Hypersonic glide vehicle launch preparations,[316] beginning in 2020, and continuing with launches every six months.[372]
      • 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.[373][374][375]
  • Soldier lethality
    • Network CFT sponsors sensor-to-shooter prototype for multi-domain battle, 2019 operational assessment. [376][377][378]
    • Night vision goggles thermal polarimetric camera.[379] Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)[380][381][382][383][384][385][386][387][388] The Synthetic Training Environment (STE) is available to some of the troops outfitted with IVAS.[389] Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said Army work on a common operating picture will be a foundation for joint operations.[390][391][392][393]
    • 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.[394]
      • 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.[395]
    • CCDC ARL and MIT researchers are formulating atomically thin materials to be layered upon soldiers' equipment and clothing for MDO information display and processing.[396]
    • Integrated, wearable cabling for capabilities such as IVAS, Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW), or Nett Warrior are under development;[397] the potential exists to reduce 20 pounds of batteries to half that weight.[398]
    • CCDC ARL is studying additive manufacturing (3D printing) for munitions.[399]
    • Natick Soldier RDEC has awarded an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract to prototype soldier exoskeletons which augment human leg strength under harsh conditions.[400][401][402][403]
    • DEVCOM Chem Bio Center (CBC) is developing sensors to detect contaminants.[404]
    • The Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV)[405][406] is meant to be airdropped for a squad of nine paratroopers.[407] The GM design was selected; first unit is expected at 1/82nd AB division in February 2021.[408][409]
      • A-PNT devices are being miniaturized, with more redundant positioning sources.[354][53]: pp220-3 [g]
      • In September 2019 in the Maneuver CoE's Battle Lab at Fort Moore, OneSAF simulations[410] 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.[410]

In February 2024 the department of the Air Force announced its intention to create the Space Futures Command.[411][412] The US Air Force is seeking to launch Integrated Capabilities Command by year-end 2024 to set future requirements for the USAF.[413]

List of commanding generals

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.[173][414][415][416][161][140][141][162][163][164] Lieutenant General James E. Rainey (promoted to general on 7 October 2022)[417] became AFC's second commanding general on 4 October 2022.[a]

No. Portrait Name and rank Took office Left office Term length
1
John M. Murray
General
John M. Murray		24 August 20183 December 20213 years, 101 days
-
James M. Richardson
Lieutenant General
James M. Richardson
Acting		3 December 20214 October 2022305 days
2
James E. Rainey
General
James E. Rainey		4 October 2022Incumbent1 year, 255 days

See also

Notes

  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,[418] but applied to Force modernization, rather than training).[156] 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.[419] The AROC serves as a discussion forum of these factors.[156]
    • 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).[420]: diagram on p.559 [156][419]
    • The relevant strategy is provided by the Army's leadership to guide Army staff.[420]
    • The resources are "dictated by Congress".[419]
    • A DOTMLPF analysis models the factors necessary to change the Current force into a relevant Future force.[421]
    • A JCIDS/ACIDS[422] 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[423]: 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".[420]: 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,[41] adversaries attempt to project protected areas against each other.[42] 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.[76]
    4. Mid-range capability (§ MRC) missile, also called Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF)[77]
    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)[78][79]
    9. Integrated Tactical Network (§ ITN) unified with § echelons above brigade, and the multi-domain task forces
    10. Common Operating Environment: Command Post Computing Environment[80]/Mounted Computed Environment (CPCE)/(MCE) See Common operational picture
    11. Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2)
    12. Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (MAPS)[81][82]
    13. Dismounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (DAPS)[81]
    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)[83] - Patriot radar replacement
    17. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (§ IBCS)
    18. Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD)[84] 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,[85]
    [74][75][86] [87] [88]
  6. ^ a b c In Future Vertical Lift, FARA and FLRAA are projected to be prototyped by 2028, with fielding by 2030.[89][90] The OMFV prototype is projected for 2025.[91]
  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.[52][27][54][55][41]
  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".[56]
  9. ^ The 2020 xTechSearch top ten semifinalists (who will each receive $120,000) are:[72]
    • 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
    [71]
  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 , transportation, electromagnetic spectrum operations, missile defense"
  11. ^ The Combat Systems Directorate[128] was to be led by the ASA(ALT)'s Principal Military Deputy [135][136] (Principal Military Deputy (PMILDEP) to the ASA(ALT)) [14]: AD2018-15, 6b:PMILDEP will additionally be AFC director, Combat Systems [137] who will produce those developed solutions and seek feedback.[52][138] In 2022, AD2018-15 was rescinded by Army Directive AD2022-07,[139] which in turn is subject to rescission 180 days after passage of FY2023 NDAA.[140][141]
  12. ^ Echelons above brigade (division, corps, and theater army) engage in a continuum of conflict.[j] [c][170]: minute 17:45 [171]
  13. ^ Munitions such as PrSM will need to fire and then move, at targets on the move.[331][332]
  1. ^ a b c d Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Army Applications Lab Archived 9 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine: (23 October 2018) Army Futures Command Wants YOU (To Innovate) Archived 24 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine
    • —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 Archived 1 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine ... 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (6 December 2018) Futures Command reveals new insignia as it 'forges' ahead Archived 8 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine last accessed 3 February 2019
  2. ^ Joe Lacdan, Army News Service (27 August 2018) Establishment of Army Futures Command marks a culture shift Archived 2 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "About - U.S. Army Futures Command". U.S. Army. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. ^ Army Futures Command Meet Our Leadership Archived 20 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b c d "Army Futures Command: Meet Our Leadership". Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  6. ^ 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 Archived 13 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine Nelson to serve at the Pentagon for AFC
  7. ^ US Army "Army announces Austin as the home of new Army Futures Command". C-SPAN. 13 July 2018. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Organization | The United States Army". Organization | The United States Army. Archived from the original on 8 July 2003. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  9. ^ a b Army Commands, Army Service Component Commands, and Direct Reporting Units ARN2541_AR10-87_WEB_Final.pdf section 20-2a, p.27
  10. ^ a b c "The number one priority: An interview with Gen. Mark Milley". www.army.mil. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  11. ^ a b c "Multi-Domain Battle The Advent of Twenty-First Century War". www.armyupress.army.mil. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  12. ^ Sébastien Roblin (11 Oct. 2019) China's stealth drones and hypersonic missiles surpass—and threaten—the U.S. Archived 12 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ a b Lauren C. Williams (14 Sep 2018) Army Futures Command to set up DIU-like innovation lab Archived 17 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ 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) Archived 31 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine and DCS G-8, 27 August 2018
  15. ^ a b c d e Jr, Sydney J. Freedberg (25 October 2017). "Can The Pentagon Protect Young Innovators?". Breaking Defense. Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  16. ^ "75th Innovation Command Page - About Us". US Army Reserve. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  17. ^ Jr, Sydney J. Freedberg (7 May 2018). "Permanent Evolution: SecArmy Esper On Futures Command (EXCLUSIVE)". Breaking Defense. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  18. ^ Barone, Chelsea (7 August 2018). "The Army Futures Command Finds a Home in Austin, TX". Modern Battlespace. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  19. ^ "Authority Transfers Begin to Army Futures Command". AUSA. 14 June 2018. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  20. ^ Cox, Matthew (13 July 2018). "It's Official: Austin Is Home of New Army Futures Command". Military.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  21. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (8 August 2014) Pentagon Struggles To Get Small-Biz Tech Archived 22 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine: FCS misuse of OTA, other acquisition issues.
  22. ^ Dan Lamothe Washington Post (2018-07-12) Army to unveil details about new Futures Command in biggest reorganization in 45 years Archived 5 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ "Thomas E. Ricks (MARCH 2, 2015)Why hasn't the Army's regular acquisition process produced anything in decades? --Future of War conference". Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  24. ^ Matthew Cox (28 April 2018) How Future Combat Systems Failed Archived 11 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Arpi Dilanian and Matthew Howard Army.mil (6 September 2018) Safer, smarter, faster: An interview with Gen. James McConville Archived 7 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ ""US edge has eroded to a dangerous degree"". CBS News. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  27. ^ a b c Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (14 March 2019) Army 'Big Six' Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS Archived 3 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ a b c d e Jaspreet Gill (4 May 2022) EXCLUSIVE: New Army directive shakes up modernization enterprise Archived 5 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ Jr, Sydney J. Freedberg (24 August 2018). "How McCain & Milley Created Army Futures Command: It Almost Didn't Happen". Breaking Defense. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  30. ^ Carlson, Kara "'Modernizing is key': Austin-based Army Futures Command continues to grow, adapt". Austin-American Statesman. 11 May 2021. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  31. ^ Jen Judson (28 Aug 2018) Can Austin make the Army weird? Archived 8 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ Judson, Jen (9 October 2018). "Army's 'night court' finds $25 billion to reinvest in modernization priorities". Defense News. Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  33. ^ "Back to the (Army's) Future: A Conversation with Secretary of the Army Mark Esper". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  34. ^ Beinart, Matthew (8 February 2019). "Esper: Army Cut $25 Billion From Low-Tier Programs To Fund Modernization Priorities". Defense Daily. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  35. ^ MG Cedric T. Wins (09.10.2019) CCDC'S road map to modernizing the Army: air and missile defense Archived 15 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine DVIDS release
  36. ^ 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) Archived 31 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine 2 October 2018
  37. ^ Kelley M. Sayler, CRS (10 Nov 2020) Artificial Intelligence and National Security Archived 27 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine R45178
  38. ^ C5ISR "Army leaders get firsthand look at C5ISR Center research, development projects". www.army.mil. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  39. ^ a b TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1 (6 December 2018) The U.S. Army in Multi-Domain Operations 2028 Archived 28 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine "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 Archived 19 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine
  40. ^ "The U.S. Army Modernization Strategy". APG News. 13 June 2018. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  41. ^ a b Kerensa Crum CCDC Aviation & Missile Center Public Affairs (14 August 2019) Leader updates Army's modernization priorities Archived 15 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Standoff
  42. ^ a b Yasmin Tadjdeh (10/10/2018) Army to Focus on Defeating Enemies' Standoff Capabilities Archived 24 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Summary of standoff
  43. ^ a b CRS Insight (IN11019) (17 January 2019) The U.S. Army and Multi-Domain Operations Archived 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  44. ^ Sydney Freedberg, Jr. (14 January 2020) Army Chief Seeks 'Minimally Manned' Vehicles, Joint C2 Archived 15 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine LRPF, ITN, IBCS, FARA, FLRAA, and "We need a joint command and control system" —Army Chief of Staff James C. McConville
  45. ^ Sydney Freedberg, Jr. (2021) Army Chief To Navy, Air Force: We've Got 'Speed & Range' Archived 26 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine "The future is all about range and speed" —Gen. McConville
  46. ^ 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 Archived 16 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Unclassified version by 40th Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. James C. McConville
  47. ^ a b Chief of Staff paper #2 (1 March 2021) The Army in Military Competition Archived 2 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
  48. ^ a b c Sydney Freedberg, Jr. (26 March 2018) Army Outlines Futures Command; Org Chart In Flux Archived 26 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  49. ^ 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 Archived 3 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine
    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';
  50. ^ 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&D Archived 6 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine See Appendix B p.615 for DOD Financial Management Regulation (Volume 2B, Chapter 5)
  51. ^ Neil Hollenbeck and Benjamin Jensen (6 December 2017) Why the Army needs a Futures Command Archived 5 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine Enable a culture of experimentation, and develop concepts and technology together.
  52. ^ a b c d Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (13 Sep 2018) Futures Command Won't Hurt Oversight, Army Tells Congress Archived 14 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  53. ^ a b c d e f ASA(ALT) Weapon Systems Handbook 2018 Archived 19 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine update Archived 7 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine
  54. ^ a b Gary Sheftick, Army News Service (3 April 2019) Army 'Shark Tank' enabling quick prototyping of new systems Archived 4 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  55. ^ Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (18 July 2019) Futures Command showcases efforts ahead of upcoming FOC Archived 20 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  56. ^ Jen Judson (23 Mar 2022) Multidomain operations concept will become doctrine this summer Archived 7 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine
  57. ^ a b Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. (7 May 2018) Permanent Evolution: SecArmy Esper On Futures Command Archived 5 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  58. ^ 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.
  59. ^ a b Scott Maucione (19 July 2019) Army Futures Command fully operational, dinged by GAO on announcement Archived 3 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  60. ^ a b c d e Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (11 July 2019) "Embracing a new culture at Army Futures Command". www.army.mil. 11 July 2019. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  61. ^ a b c "Army Futures Command Press Conference". DVIDS. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  62. ^ a b Devon L. Suits, Army News Service Army (26 February 2019) FY20 budget proposal realigns $30 billion Archived 28 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  63. ^ Sydney J Freedberg Jr (29 May 2019) Army Big 6 Gets $10B More Over 2021-2025 Archived 29 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  64. ^ Michael A. Grinston, James C. McConville, and Ryan McCarthy(2019) 2019 Army Modernization Strategy Archived 30 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine revision 7, CFTs' 31 signature efforts
  65. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (19 September 2019) Can Army Control Costs Of Its New Weapons? Archived 20 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine Currently the Army has 692 programs of record
  66. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (11 January 2019) 12 Moments Of Truth For Army Modernization In 2019 Archived 16 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  67. ^ a b MDO Challenge (15 May 2019) *Start here* MDO 101 Archived 15 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine General explanation of multi-domain operations (MDO) for the layman
  68. ^ America's Future Series (April 2023) GEN Mike Murray - Army Futures Command "What we got right" Archived 31 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  69. ^ Sean Kimmons In first year, Futures Command grows from 12 to 24,000 personnel, Army News Service, 19 July 2019, archived from the original on 8 April 2023, retrieved 7 February 2024
  70. ^ Freedberg Jr, Sydney J. (13 September 2018), Futures Command Won't Hurt Oversight, Army Tells Congress, Breakingdefense.com, archived from the original on 14 September 2018, retrieved 14 September 2018
  71. ^ a b Futures Command (2022) xTechSearch Archived 3 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Army's ongoing search for capabilities
  72. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (20 March 2020) "xTechSearch: Army Picks Top 10 Tech Innovators" Archived 21 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine breakingdefense.com
  73. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (13 April 2020) COVID-19: Army Tries Prizes To Get Ventilator Tech ASAP Archived 14 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine breakingdefense.com
  74. ^ a b Grinston, McConville, and McCarthy (2019) 2019 Army Modernization Strategy: Investing in the future Archived 30 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine 7 —Figure 3. Current Cross Functional Teams and Signature Efforts
  75. ^ a b "Chief of staff: Most signature systems to be fielded by 2023, people still No. 1". www.army.mil. 13 October 2021. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  76. ^ Anthony Capaccio (14 Sep 2023) US Army Faces Facts:Its Hypersonic Weapon To Miss a Deadline Archived 19 January 2024 at the Wayback Machine
  77. ^ 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) Archived 11 January 2023 at the Wayback Machine report IF12135
  78. ^ Ashley Roque (22 Aug 2022) US Army picks AeroVironment's Jump 20 for FTUAS Increment 1 Archived 22 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  79. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (27 Feb 2023) 'Unmanned' drones take too many humans to operate, says top Army aviator Archived 5 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  80. ^ Jaspreet Gill (14 Jan 2022) Army 'well on its way' to first OCONUS cloud in Indo-Pacific Archived 5 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  81. ^ a b Alternative PNT & Area Protection Archived 24 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine DAPS
  82. ^ Andrew Eversden (Feb. 2, 2022 at 12:09 PM ET update) Here's the Army's 24 programs in soldiers' hands by 2023 Archived 7 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine Updated by AFC
  83. ^ MDAA (24 Jul 2020) Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) Archived 16 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  84. ^ Jen Judson (13 Jan 2022) Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons Archived 10 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine
  85. ^ Jaspreet Gill (27 Feb 2023) Maxar plans geospatial data, multi-source collection for Army's One World Terrain Archived 5 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine
  86. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (20 May 2020) Army Braces For Post-COVID Cuts: Gen. Murray Archived 28 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine 34 Signature Programs: 31 in Futures Command, 3 in RCCTO
  87. ^ MG Cedric T. Wins (5 Dec 2018) RDECOM'S ROAD MAP TO MODERNIZING THE ARMY: NEXT GENERATION COMBAT VEHICLE Archived 7 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine MODULAR ACTIVE PROTECTION SYSTEMS. Second in a series.
  88. ^ U.S. Army Public Affairs (21 Sep 2023) Transcript: Media Roundtable with Douglas Bush, ASA for AL&T, September 19, 2023 Archived 6 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine 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.}
  89. ^ a b Jen Judson (4 April 2019) US Army plans to field a future long-range assault helicopter by 2030 Archived 7 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine 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
  90. ^ Steve Trimble (24 July 2020) U.S. Army Upgrades Vision For Future Vertical Lift Programs Archived 29 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  91. ^ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. (10 April 2020) Army Revamps OMFV Bradley Replacement For Russian Front Archived 26 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine OMFV digital designs by 2023, prototypes by 2025, operational by 2028
    92. Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=U.S._Army_Futures_Command
    Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.


Navigácia: Veda >

Analytika
Antropológia
Aplikované vedy
Bibliometria
Dejiny vedy
Encyklopédie
Filozofia vedy
Forenzné vedy
Humanitné vedy
Knižničná veda
Kryogenika
Kryptológia
Kulturológia
Literárna veda
Medzidisciplinárne oblasti
Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy
Metavedy
Metodika
Metodológia vedy
Náboženstvo a veda
Náučná literatúra
Podvody vo vede
Popularizácia vedy
Potravinárstvo
Prírodné vedy
Pseudoveda
Scientometria
Spoločenské vedy
Teórie
Teatrológia
Technické vedy
Technika
Terminológia
Umenie
Výskum
Veda
Veda a technika podľa štátu
Veda a technika podľa kontinentu
Veda a technika podľa roka
Veda v kozme
Vedci
Vedecká literatúra
Vedecké databázy
Vedecké experimenty
Vedecké konferencie
Vedecké metódy
Vedecké ocenenia
Vedecké organizácie
Vedecké parky
Vedeckí spisovatelia
Vzdelávanie
Záhady

Príbuzné výrazy:



Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok.
Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.

Your browser doesn’t support the object tag.

www.astronomia.sk | www.biologia.sk | www.botanika.sk | www.dejiny.sk | www.economy.sk | www.elektrotechnika.sk | www.estetika.sk | www.farmakologia.sk | www.filozofia.sk | Fyzika | www.futurologia.sk | www.genetika.sk | www.chemia.sk | www.lingvistika.sk | www.politologia.sk | www.psychologia.sk | www.sexuologia.sk | www.sociologia.sk | www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk