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AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin has long attracted high-tech startups and innovators, bringing the U.S. Army to the Texas capital seven years ago with the promise of a community that would carry the service\u2019s ambitious modernization push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army created a new four-star outfit \u2013 Futures Command<\/a> \u2013 in the late summer of 2018, right in the city center, empowered with a mandate to quickly develop new requirements for modern capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven years later, Austin\u2019s vibes have grown even more future-forward. Cowboy-booted pedestrians side-step robots lumbering along sidewalks delivering takeout food while driverless taxis blend into regular traffic and robotic-armed baristas serve up lattes at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as Austin\u2019s high-tech evolution continues, so does the Army\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service announced earlier this year that it would combine the new Army Futures Command with the 52-year-old Training and Doctrine Command<\/a>, effectively doing away with two four-star-led organizations to create a brand new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision came as a surprise. After all, AFC hadn\u2019t even made it a whole decade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time a four-star command had been deactivated \u2013 the Continental Army Command \u2013 was 52 years ago, which triggered the creation of TRADOC and U.S. Army Forces Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Oct. 2, on the second day into a government shutdown, the Army cased the colors of TRADOC and of AFC, with its anvil insignia meant to signify its mission to forge the future, and unfurled the colors of the Transformation and Training Command, or T2COM, to a sparser crowd than expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army leaders have chosen a sword as the insignia for T2COM, with command personnel already sporting the new shoulder patch at the activation ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust for the record, T2COM is a good decision. This is a good decision for the Army,\u201d Gen. James Rainey, the outgoing AFC commander who will retire on Oct. 31, said at the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no organization more responsible for the Army of Desert Storm, the Army of [Operation Iraqi Freedom], the Army we now have, than Training and Doctrine Command,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for Futures Command, Rainey described its creation as \u201cone of the boldest and best decisions\u201d the Army ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019d think it\u2019s the most un-Army thing ever to stand up a four-star headquarters in a tech hub<\/a>, but AFC has proven that you can be flat, fast, disruptive and you can punch way above your weight,\u201d he added. \u201cSo the chief\u2019s decision, the secretary\u2019s decision, to take those two organizations and put them together, it\u2019s not about efficiencies as much as opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seven-year itch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AFC was established during President Donald Trump\u2019s first administration under then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, whom President Trump has since sought to disgrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milley proposed the four-star command he dubbed Army Futures Command as a new way forward, breaking free of the bureaucracy and organizational silos that had hampered the service\u2019s previous major modernization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with other top service officials, Milley shifted billions of dollars into modernization programs including the top priority \u2014 long-range, precision fires \u2014 and based the new command in Austin, Texas, an area known for its innovative, technology-focused workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soldiers take part in a human-machine integration demonstration at Fort Irwin, California, March 2024. (Spc. Samarion Hicks\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AFC was formed to focus on requirements development within the modernization process. Prior to its formation, the requirements development process played out within TRADOC, where it competed for attention alongside training, recruitment and professional military education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more focused organization was built to enable the Army to move faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The command received attention and gained traction as it opened its headquarters in a University of Texas building downtown. Across the street, it opened the Army Applications Laboratory based at the Capital Factory, a hub that helps entrepreneurs meet investors and has since connected startups with Army decision makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a two-year period, it pushed more successful programs into reality than the Army had done in the previous four years, Milley told Defense News in an interview in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although some of those efforts were already in development, the command has touted it was able to push programs through development and into soldiers\u2019 hands faster than previously planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The command also created Project Convergence, an enormous experimentation effort that continues year-round with culminating events to tie new capabilities together across mission sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFC also established the Software Factory, which has been developing software-based applications for the force internally, giving soldiers the opportunity to become coders, helping to solve operational problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But other large and ambitious programs were canceled over the course of seven years, including plans to build a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft <\/a>and an Extended-Range Artillery Cannon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first Trump Administration, AFC was given unprecedented authority to move forward with programs, but when Christine Wormuth became Army secretary in May 2021, she quickly identified some ambiguity in the direction given to the command and the service\u2019s acquisition office about their roles and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth also moved to centralize investment authority at Army headquarters. Some critics said the move basically gutted the entire intention of AFC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the Army struggled to find a commander to replace AFC\u2019s first leader, Gen. Mike Murray, who retired in 2021. With no one in the top job, Lt. Gen. James Richardson, Murray\u2019s deputy, served as an acting commander for nearly a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The personnel optics of a stand-in boss seemed to cast doubt on the future of AFC itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainey took over in the fall of 2022, and while remaining focused on the many modernization priorities already in development, he said he was looking deeper into the future. He emphasized the work the Army would need to do to figure out how humans and machines would fight together on the battlefield now and in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainey famously coined the quote-du-jour to describe the role robots would play: \u201cWe will never again trade blood for first contact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who took the service\u2019s helm in the fall 2023, the command centered its focus around developing an entirely new command-and-control architecture leveraging the tech industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The command helped the Army take leaps in fielding advanced technology by putting new capabilities into operational formations, bypassing the usual cumbersome development, testing and acquisition processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief dubbed this effort \u201ctransformation in contact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn seven years, this team helped our Army gain ground in next-generation combat vehicles, long-range precision fires, future vertical lift, soldier lethality, air-and-missile defense, and our number one priority, the network,\u201d George said in a speech broadcast from the Pentagon during the ceremony here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou helped our Army drive rapid change through our transformation in contact rotations. You helped build capacity in our formations across every warfighting function and you pushed the entire enterprise to field next-generation command-and-control to a division in record time and I know that is going to transform the Army,\u201d George added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u2018vision to victory\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The newly established T2COM, whose new motto is \u201cFrom Vision to Victory\u201d is now the largest command in the Army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world isn\u2019t slowing down and neither will we,\u201d George said. T2COM \u201cwill help our Army change how we operate. As we all know, transformation is not just about product innovation, it\u2019s about process innovation. By reducing headquarters and streamlining authorities and responsibilities, T2COM will help us cut out redundancy, reverse stagnation and push talent and leaders into our fighting formations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new command will help ensure \u201cour training and education is modern and world class, whether at our combat training centers, centers of excellence, Army university or home station training and T2COM will help us get state-of-the-art tech into soldiers\u2019 hands quickly, putting tacticians with technicians, so that we are making interactive, substantive and continuous change,\u201d George added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gen. Gary Brito (center), then the commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, visits Fort Irwin. (Sgt. Maxwell Bass\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Its first commander is Gen. David Hodne, who has held a variety of roles at both TRADOC and AFC in his career, most recently serving as the leader of AFC\u2019s Futures and Concepts Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFC placed a bet on proximity to innovation when it set up shop among startups and venture capitalists instead of within a traditional base. Now, T2COM is charged with doubling down on that idea, fusing its future-looking modernization effort with the institution that trains every soldier who will use those technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T2COM\u2019s headquarters will remain in Austin and the Army is looking at how it will bring more personnel into the locations in the area it now has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ll get more people into the footprint, but we have, definitely, the capacity to do it,\u201d T2COM chief of staff, Maj. Gen. John Cushing, said. In addition to the downtown location, AFC has also established space in Round Rock, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three subordinate three-star commands are also established as part of T2COM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFC\u2019s Futures and Concepts Center based at Fort Eustis, Virginia, will become Futures and Concepts Command. TRADOC\u2019s Combined Arms Center, which sets doctrine, the intellectual building blocks for the service\u2019s flavor of combat, will become the Combined Arms Command, remaining at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Army Recruiting Command will remain at Fort Knox, Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFC creations like the Army Applications Laboratory and the Software Factory are here to stay. The lab will remain in its home at the Capital Factory in Austin, and the Army is working through where it will make the most sense to locate the Software Factory, according to Cushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new command should not be seen as the closure of two commands and the creation of a new one, or an organizational shuffle, Hodne emphasized at its activation ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a reset,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the deliberate blending of two proud traditions into something new, purpose-built for the challenges that we as an Army face today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army has, for the first time, \u201cunified the functions of force design, force development and force generation,\u201d Hodne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechnology alone never transformed war. The tank, the airplane, the drone \u2013 none changed battlefields by themselves. They required new tactics, new concepts and new organizations to integrate them into coherent warfighting systems. Where militaries failed to align these elements, they failed on the battlefield,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hodne stressed the need to move rapidly, pointing to the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East that pose evolving challenges like one-way attack drones, remote maritime systems and advanced battlefield networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe question is whether our institutions can adapt fast enough to keep pace with these changes. T2COM is the Army\u2019s answer,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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