AUSA 2018: Army Futures Command paves a new road forward

9th October 2018 - 11:28 GMT | by Scott Gourley in London

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This week’s 2018 AUSA annual meeting and exhibition included a panel update on the current status and future plans for the Army Futures Command (AFC).

‘AFC is an opportunity for us to bring two key stakeholders together: acquisition and requirements,’ explained Ryan McCarthy, Under Secretary of the Army, noting that this critical pursuit is ‘the pathfinder to help us revolutionise the army, because this is a process of fundamentally changing the mindsets of our soldiers and civil servants assigned to these two organisations'.

‘Our new operating model is fusing all of these stakeholders together as a team of teams,’ he

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