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Although the Army has enjoyed overmatch for the past seventy years, [24] more rapid modernization for conflict with near-peers is the reason for AFC, which will be focused on achieving clear overmatch [64] in six areas — long-range precision fires, [65] [66] next-generation combat vehicle, future vertical lift platforms, a mobile ...
Future Combat Systems logo. Future Combat Systems (FCS) was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009. [1] Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unprecedented fast and flexible battlefield network.
The United States Army Futures Command (AFC) is a United States Army command that runs modernization projects. [a] It is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The AFC began initial operations on 1 July 2018. [7] It was created as a peer of Forces Command (FORSCOM), Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and Army Materiel Command (AMC).
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Army project manager and fitness trainer SFC Scott Dalrymple shares his part in the military's fitness plan "to help soldiers and make them better war-fighters" on "The Ingraham Angle."
In March 2019, the Army released a request for proposals for the OMFV. [12] The Army said the OMFV will be designed "to engage in close combat and deliver decisive lethality during the execution of combined arms maneuver," and will have a 30mm cannon and a second-generation forward looking infrared system, or FLIR. Testing of the vehicle is ...
The requested strength of the Active Army in FY2020 is increasing by 4,000 additional troops from the current 476,000 soldiers; [260] this request covers the near-term needs for cyber, air & missile defense, and fires (Army modernization).
On Feb. 7, 2011, the Chief of Staff of the Army directed that FFID be re-designated the Brigade Modernization Command (BMC) [10] with a mission to conduct physical integration and evaluations of the network and capability packages to provide Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy ...