Army Futures Command’s Post

Good to see the Department of Defense is adopting and integrating new thinking around the governance structures that support our military: https://lnkd.in/gYA-yfRy

Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Duke Z. Richardson stood up the Integrated Development Office (IDO) Sept. 16, 2024 to acquire the right capabilities and field them faster and more effectively.  According to Gen. Richardson, IDO "moves us toward a single integrated acquisition demand signal that will galvanize AFMC and strengthen DAF warfighting capabilities.” IDO and the new provisional Integrated Capabilities Command's focus on prioritizing modernization plan alignment with force design to provide a cost-effective pipeline of competitive warfighting capabilities are consistent with the National Defense Strategy's increased emphasis on near peer competition. These steps are also consisted with the United States Department of Defense's increased focus on contested logistics, a 10-year multi-billion-dollar policy and funding priority that my Federal Budget IQ colleagues identified in 2022. Our defense team -- Becky Leggieri, Chauncey Goss, and Cameron Leuthy -- has done excellent work on this. #defense #contestedlogistics #publicsectorforecast

As both a military leader and advocate for Total Force integration, I explore how our current approach to digital transformation risks creating unnecessary barriers between components. I invite my fellow military leaders and defense professionals to read and share their perspectives on this crucial issue. How do you think we can better integrate digital transformation across all components?

Shifting the focus to warfighter-driven needs and mission outcomes is the way forward. It’s about enabling industry to think creatively and deliver faster, solving challenges at the speed of relevance. Exciting times for #Innovation and #TechAcquisition! #WarfighterFirst #MissionOutcomes

Resonated strongly with my former Palantir colleague Tara Murphy Dougherty, who highlighted a critical shift in Army tech acquisition at #AUSA2024. The move toward “characteristics of need” puts warfighter requirements first and opens the door for innovative commercial solutions. As Tara notes, this approach allows industry to suggest solutions rather than being constrained by predefined requirements.    Christian Brose also made a crucial point about shifting focus from contract deliverables to mission outcomes. True success isn't just meeting requirements—it's solving the warfighter's evolving problems at speed.    https://lnkd.in/eGu9nppH 

This video gives an overview of some of the technology and associated Tactics Techniques and Procedures that were experimented with on Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5). Some genuinely exciting stuff here. No breakthrough technologies, but the cumulative effect of being able to do things faster across a broader span of constituents is transformative. At the battlegroup level and below the increased capabilities to sense and effect are staggering. Platoon commanders now need to consider airspace management and air supremacy at the micro level - their level, while also being afforded the ability to sense and effect out to what would have been battalion level ranges in my day. This is impacting on battlefield geometry and blurring the boundaries of hierarchical=geographical method of command and control. Also very clear on PC-C5 was the impact of software and software defined capabilities not only on how we do what we do, but also how we set out our requirements and procure capability. If I became conversant in networks a couple of years ago, data and data architecture is where the conversation is now.

Dr. Kelvin Dumas, SpOC deputy director of future operations, shares his thoughts on the Global Force Management Sourcing conference: I strongly believe this sourcing conference is exactly what the United States Space Force needs to communicate our capabilities, capacity, lethality and agility to Combatant Commands and Service Components. I consider it a success, but it is just the beginning as we will continue to iterate every six months as we get after challenges associated with a return to Great Power Competition. As the lead for proponency and force generation, SpOC is doing what we can to meet warfighter requirements, ensuring all DOTmLPF-P requirements are baked into the capabilities we are bringing to bear. If we struggle to meet a request, the hope is that combatant commands will amplify the requirement through issue papers for the POM to make it into the budget. As a service, we’ve identified opportunities to improve the forecasting of maintenance and modernization efforts that would make our capabilities unavailable. This conference changes that as we partner with SSC to help the warfighter plan accordingly when they are notified a capability is unavailable to them. I believe we have communicated to the warfighters what capabilities we have forecasted for operational acceptance and force presentation for the next three years, and now combatant command planners can in turn update their OPLANS to include those space capabilities. In addition, STARCOM can exercise our Guardians with these new capabilities to be ready to deter and defeat our competitors, should deterrence fail. Something that I took away from the conference, and that was mentioned by Royal Canadian BG Kyle Paul, SpOC deputy commander for force generation, is the importance of integration with our allies and partners. We do not fight alone, and having allies and partners attend these events identifies increased opportunities for collaboration - key to winning in space. https://lnkd.in/gN6VUvtW #USSpaceForce #SemperSupra #USSF5 #BuildOnAndBuildOut

💼 Productable is set to transform enterprise operations with a $1,290,000 award from the United States Department of Defense, under the United States Department of the Air Force. Their project involves an enterprise-wide use license and DoD hosting, including sprint support, technical configuration, and workflow management reports. 📊 This initiative is part of the Small Technology Transfer Research Program Phase III, focusing on applied research. The project will span 11 months, commencing on August 26, 2024, and concluding on August 25, 2025. #EnterpriseSolutions #Innovation #STTR #Defense

The Pentagon's Targeted Approach to CJADC2 is Paying Off - The United States Department of Defense has taken a more targeted approach to achieving Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) in recent years, and it's starting to yield results. - Rather than trying to fully interconnect all military services and domains, the Pentagon is addressing the most urgent operational problems through joint and service-level experimentation campaigns. - Initiatives like the Army's Project Convergence, the Navy's Project Overmatch, and the Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System are driving progress on key CJADC2 capabilities. - The DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's Global Information Dominance Experiment events also bring together the services, combatant commands, and international partners to test CJADC2 technologies. - This more targeted, bottom-up approach has highlighted critical sensor-to-shooter connections and improved interoperability, with tangible outcomes seen in recent exercises. - Experts say this pragmatic approach is more achievable than the initial broad vision for full interoperability across all domains and services. #CJADC2 #MilitaryTechnology #PentagonInnovation #JointExperimentation #ServiceInnovation #OperationalPriorities #SensorToShooter #DataInteroperability