HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- More than 400 attendees of the 18th annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium gathered in the North Hall of the Von Braun Center to listen to one of the Army's leaders during a luncheon Aug. 12.
Guest speaker Maj. Gen. Robert "Bo" Dyess Jr., deputy director, U.S. Army Capabilities Integration Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, addressed the audience on the topic of "Force 2025 and Beyond."
He explained that the Army just wrote a new Army operating concept. It is called "U.S. Army Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World," and it is a key document in the Army Concept Framework that describes how the Army will employ forces and capabilities in complex environments against increasingly capable opponents.
"This complex world is constantly changing and this new operating concept provides us with not only the tactical and the operational but also a strategic way of looking at complex problems," said Dyess.
"How does the army think about how we are going to develop our forces and provide capabilities to an Army that is going to be in a resource constrained environment?" he asked. "We have to be able to answer the call. I think that is really the challenge we all have to deal with."
ARCIC takes concepts like winning in a complex world and works with the Army centers of excellence to develop revised Army functional concepts, he explained.
"They do a functional concept, determine where we want to go, where we are now and considering the threats that are out there the difference between where we are and where we want to go is the gaps. And for the gaps, that is where we start to put interim solutions and funding and resources in order to make the Army a better place," said Dyess.
"TRADOC is the idea engine that thinks about the future, determines the gaps, articulates with the centers, proposes solutions, and then goes to the department for funding," he added.
"TRADOC is working for the Army in order to bring capabilities that could be a change to doctrine. It could be a change to an organization; it could be a change to training; it could be a change to leader development; or it could be a materiel change," Dyess said.
"How does the intellectual lead the physical? How do you take a concept and turn it into a capability? How do you take learning demands and a campaign of learning and where are the inputs and outputs?" he asked. "That is one of the hardest things that a staff has got to do and that is one of the things that TRADOC is going to take on.
"We have identified 20 warfighting challenges, which are 20 first-order problems. If you propose either interim or permanent solutions to them, it will make the Army a better current and future force," Dyess concluded.
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