Transformation of the United States Army

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The transformation of the United States Army is part of a strategy^[a] using Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).^{[b][c][1][2][3][4][5][6]} In 2019, the planning was for Large Scale ground Combat Operations (LSCO) at echelons above the brigade combat team (meaning division-sized units, or larger).^[7][8][9] Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTFs) operate in a combatant commander's theater (area of responsibility).

In 2020, the Army's 40th Chief of Staff, Gen. James C. McConville, was calling for transformational change, rather than incremental change by the Army.^{[10]: minute 4:55} In 2021, McConville laid out Aimpoint 2035, a direction for the Army to achieve Corps-level "large-scale combat operations" (LSCO) by 2035, with Waypoints from 2021 to 2028.^[11][12][13] In fall 2018, Army Strategy for the next ten years was articulated listeding four Lines of Effort to be implemented.^[14] By August 2023, the Army's 41st^[15][16] Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George could lay out his priorities:^[17] The priorities are

1. Warfighting capability
2. Ready combat formations
3. Continuous transformation
4. Strengthening the profession of arms.^[17][18]

In 2009 an "ongoing campaign of learning" was the capstone concept for force commanders, meant to carry the Army from 2016 to 2028.^[19][13]

New capabilities

In the summer of 2018, the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC),^[20][21] a new Army command for modernization was activated.^[22][23] The modernization effort, coordinated with FORSCOM, US Army Materiel Command (AMC), and US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), addresses the long lead times^[24] for introducing new materiel and capabilities into the brigades of the Army.^{[22][25][26][d]} This planned Joint capability was demonstrated to the Combatant commanders (who are the "customers" for the capability) and the Joint Chiefs (who advise the government on the importance of this effort) at White Sands Missile Range in September 2020,^[27][28] in an ongoing campaign for achieving integrated deterrence. By 2020 Project Convergence, a campaign of learning, was pressed into service at Yuma Proving Ground, in the Army's campaign to modernize,^[29] by experimental prototype and demonstration of a networking concept;^[22] Project Convergence 2021 (PC21)^[30] was then a vehicle for the entire DoD, in its Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) demonstration of Joint all-domain command and control (JADC2).^[31][32] Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) now has a website for candidate entries,^[33] even as PC21 was underway in 2021. Analysis is underway in FY2022 to balance modernization and readiness going forward.^[34][35][36]

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