Army officials craft plan to implement recommendations from Network
Integration Evaluations
By Bill Ackerly, Mission Command Center of Excellence, 01/20/2012
FORT LEAVENWORTH, KS - Baseball season may be several months away, but Army network and acquisition leaders hit a home run at a Fort Leavenworth conference, January 17-20. "The Agile Process Synchronization Conference brought together all the right working groups and decision makers to synchronize the development of Army capabilities that come out of the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) at Fort Bliss, " said Colonel Wayne W. Grigsby, Jr., Director of the Mission Command Center of Excellence (MC CoE) and host of the conference. Read more »
Guidance Guards Against All Threats, Officials Say
By Lisa Daniel, American Forces Press Service, 1/5/2012
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2012 - New military strategy guidance unveiled at the Pentagon today does not change the Defense Department's longstanding commitment to prevail against any adversary anywhere, top officials said. President Barack Obama joined Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Pentagon briefing to present the 10-year plan titled "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense." Read more »
- Prevent, Shape, Win By Gen. Ray Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army 12/12/2011
- Heavy Armor in the Future Security Environment By David E. Johnson, RAND Corporation 11/20/2011
British counterpart visits TRADOC
By ARCIC Forward 12/08/2011
On November 3-4, Lt. Gen. Paul Newton, Commanding General of the British
Army's Force Development and Training (FDT) Command, met with TRADOC
Commanding General Robert Cone; ARCIC Director LTG Keith Walker; MG Nick
Tooliatos, TRADOC's Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve (USAR); and
several other senior TRADOC personnel. Lt. Gen. Newton, whose command is
similar to a new British version of TRADOC, was focused on reassessing FDT's
organization and functions after being in command for a year. As part of
this reassessment, he received briefings on the following from TRADOC
personnel: the Army Learning Model; roles of the USAR and National Guard
Bureau in Army integration efforts; ARCIC's role in concept development,
requirements determination and capability assessment; and the Training Brain
Operations Center. Read more »
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Mission Command Versus the Army Personnel System
By Donald E. Vandergriff, ARCIC Forward 11/17/2011
In this paper, featured by The Institute of Land Warfare, the author shares his own opinions in making the case for evolving the military culture and personnel system toward Mission Command. Read more »
Developing Capabilities for a 21st Century Army
By Soldiers Magazine, January 2012 In the American Old West, some 130 years ago, a horseback-riding U.S. Army cavalry scout would cross a seemingly endless desert to relay hand-written battlefield information to his commander, with nothing more than a compass and map to guide him. Fast forward to 2011: Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, from Fort Bliss, Texas, stood in the vast wilderness of White Sands Missile Range, N.M., equipped with the latest forms of ruggedized communications technology, and in seconds shared critical battlefield information with commanders and dozens of others, located miles away across the desert.
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- Army concludes second Network Integration EvaluationBy Claire Schwerin, PEO C3T 11/18/2011
- Army kicks off second Network Integration EvaluationBy Claire Schwerin, PEO C3T 10/28/2011
- A Resource Constrained Environment: A Primer to Thinking About Force Structure ChangeBy MAJ Jeremy Gray U.S. Army and Mr. Rickey Smith, ARCIC Forward 10/31/2011
LeadershipLTG Keith C. Walker
Deputy Commanding General, Futures/ Director ARCIC
Mission
Develop, evaluate, and integrate concepts, requirements, and solutions for the Army – across DOTMLPF, Warfighting functions and formations – to provide Soldiers and units the capabilities they need to support Combatant Commanders.
Vision
The Army's Concept and Capabilities architect, enabling the Joint Force Commander with an adaptive land force for decisive action in an uncertain future.
Army Capabilities Integration Center (Forward)
Mr. Rickey Smith
Assessment, Architecture & Mission Command Directorate
Mr. Allan Resnick
Brigade Modernization CommandBG Randal Dragon
Concept Development & Learning DirectorateMG Patrick Donahue II
Force Design DirectorateMr. John Twohig
International Army Programs DirectorateMr. Edward Melton
Requirements Integration DirectorateBG Robert Dyess
