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The Army is responsible for an increasingly diverse set of missions. I&#8217;ve seen first-hand how much we ask of our soldiers, our civilians and our families.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> But as the Army maintains its high operations tempo, it must also &#8220;modernize and realign,&#8221; Fanning said.<br\/><br\/> Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who appeared at the press briefing alongside Fanning, agreed.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;This year, what the secretary and I want to emphasize at this particular AUSA is the future of our Army, the deeper future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is my belief, as the chief of staff of the Army, after a year of close and rigorous study, we&#8217;re on the cusp of a fundamental change in the character of ground warfare.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> The Army doesn&#8217;t have to get it &#8220;exactly right,&#8221; but it has to &#8220;get it less wrong than any enemy if we&#8217;re going to prevail,&#8221; and the service must start now, Milley said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to continue our focus on current readiness because those threats are here, they&#8217;re real, but we&#8217;ve got to do more to pick the pace up on our future readiness,&#8221; he said.<br\/><br\/> After 15 years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army must maintain the hard-earned lessons it learned in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, Milley said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We have to sustain that. We can&#8217;t not keep going with that capability,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But at the same time, we have to develop the capability to be able to present the president with options in the event of potential conflict with a higher-end threat, a near-peer competitor. You have to be able to do both of those simultaneously.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> In addition to training, the Army also is looking to speed up its modernization and acquisition. This includes Fanning&#8217;s creation of the Rapid Capabilities Office, designed to fill the gap between the Rapid Equipping Force, which fields off-the-shelf capabilities to warfighters at the unit level, and long-term major acquisition programs that can take 15 to 20 years.<br\/><br\/> The goal is for the Rapid Capabilities Office to &#8220;bring forward capabilities that maybe we have already or maybe we&#8217;re already working on, or the other services already have,&#8221; Fanning said, adding that combatant commanders are telling leaders that their &#8220;overmatch is diminishing&#8221; in a world where technology evolves more and more quickly every year.<br\/><br\/> Milley said he and other senior leaders in the Army support the creation of the Rapid Capabilities Office.<br\/><br\/> The Army&#8217;s acquisition process is &#8220;a very large process that is very bureaucratic,&#8221; Milley said. &#8220;It&#8217;s still very slow, and the system, left to its own devices, is in fact frustrating, slow and complicated. 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