The U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Center (FCC) is designing the future force by developing integrated concepts and requirements, informed by experimentation, and synchronized into AFC and Army processes to drive persistent Army modernization.
The vision for FCC is the establishment of a cutting edge and distributive center for the exploration of the future that is adept, adaptive, innovative, inquisitive, out of the box, technology enhanced, closely linked to the threat and technology communities and our Joint and Coalition partners and dedicated to examining the future operational environment to provide the Army with a path to the future.
To accomplish this, FCC executes these core functions (Concepts, Experimentation, Requirements, and Integration), ensuring the Army can establish a modernization path to the Army needed 5 to 15 years into the future that can defeat all threats in the Future Operational Environment
The Futures and Concepts Center or FCC stands at the forefront of the work the United States Army Futures Command was created for in 2018. Encompassing over one hundred and eighty-eight professions FCC employs almost fifteen hundred people spread across the United States. FCC is one of the most educated organizations in the Army with 74% of its personnel possessing higher education in fields like engineering, education, information technology, health care and more.
Directorate of Concepts (DoC)
DoC informs forward-focused Army concepts to design the Army of 2040 and produces the future Army Operating Concept. DoC represents the Army in the development of Joint Warfighting Concepts which describe how the Joint Force will operate in the Future Operating Environment.
Futures Integration Directorate (FID)
FID supports the transformation of the Army by identifying, synchronizing and prioritizing requirements for AFC and the Army processes. FID identifies and documents Army capability gaps, analyzes and integrates emerging material requirements, and synchronizes material solution resources to support the Army's capability development community of practice in delivering materiel solutions to achieve overmatch for the Army of 2030 and the future Army of 2040.
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December 18, 2023
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May 19, 2023
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Mission
JMC plans, prepares and executes Joint Warfighting Assessments and other concept and capability assessments, provides objective analysis and feasible recommendations to enhance Multi-Domain Command and Control and inform Army Modernization decisions. On order, conducts directed assessments in support of Cross Functional Teams.
Vision
The Army’s lead for warfighting concept and capability assessments, supporting modernization to ensure that future forces win in a complex world.
Who is Joint Modernization Command?
Joint Modernization Command plans and executes worldwide multi-echelon, joint, and multinational live experiments in support of the Army’s modernization strategy enabling a multi-domain operations-capable Army.
JMC is located in Fort Bliss, Texas, consisting of NCO and Officer Professionals from across the spectrum of warfighting functions.
There are three divisions within JMC supported by a complete General Staff and Simulations Center. The Multi-Domain Operations Group specializes in Multi-Domain Operations Concept and the concepts that support operationalizing MDO. Multi-Domain Command and Control focuses on the conceptual and technical interoperability to include joint and multinational. The Field Experiments Division ensures emerging technology and new capabilities are integrated into a realistic scenario. The three divisions are supported by the commanding general’s staff to put new concepts and capabilities in the hands of Soldiers and leaders providing user feedback to Army Senior Leaders for Modernization decisions.
For more information about Joint Modernization Command visit https://home.army.mil/bliss/index.php/units-tenants/joint-modernization-command.
Vision
The Army Aviation CDID leads the Aviation Enterprise efforts to experiment, analyze and develop transformational Army Aviation warfighting requirements in support of Army and Joint capabilities.
Key Tasks
Concepts -Develop future operational and organizational concepts for Army Aviation
Requirements - Develop Materiel and non-Materiel capability requirements for both the enduring and future fleet of aircraft and enablers
Experimentation - Conduct experimentation, analysis and studies to identify capability gaps, assess risks and validate concepts for DOTMLPF-P modernization solutions
Integration - Develop, synchronize and execute Aviation modernization strategies through prioritized investments into Reach, Survivability, Lethality and Sustainment
End-State
Aviation formations optimized at echelon teaming Enduring Fleets and FVL with next generation UAS delivering cross-domain effects from operational and strategic distances enabling the combined arms team to dominate advanced enemies and return to competition.
Mission
The Chaplain CDID develops concepts and requirements; integrates solutions related to Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leader Development, Personnel, and Facility (DOTMLPF) domains; and validates DOTMLPF-integrated Religious Support capabilities for the Force Modernization Proponent.
Mission
As the Force Modernization Proponent for Cyberspace Operations, Signal Communications, and Electronic Warfare, Cyber CDID develops, evaluates, integrates, and communicates concepts, doctrine, requirements and solutions across DOTMLPF, Warfighting functions and formations to improve our Army and ensure the combat effectiveness of the future force.
Vision
Be the Premier Capability Development provider for Signal, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare across all Warfighting Functions.
For more information about the Cyber Center of Excellence CDID visit https://cybercoe.army.mil/CDID/index.html.
Mission
To develop Fires CDID-related concepts, requirements, and experimentation to validate DOTMLPF integrated combined arms capabilities that complement other joint, interagency, and multinational capabilities. Acts as the user representative to the materiel developer for FA and AMD systems.
Mission
Transform Army Intelligence to support timely situational understanding for maneuver commanders against peer competitors across the competition continuum by employing a mix of organic collection systems, leveraging joint, national, and partner systems, and modernizing data management and analytic processes.
Priorities:
Tactical Intelligence Targeting Acdess Node (TITAN)
Multi-Domain Sensor System (MDSS)
Terrestrial Layer System (TLS)
Intelligence Analytic Systems (CD1, CD2, Intel Apps)
Intelligence Organizations
Intelligence Architecture & Data
Counterintelligence Reform
Buffalo Soldier Electronic Training and Testing Range (BSETTR)
Mission
The Maneuver CDID determines and develops future force capabilities across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership Development, Personnel, Facilities and Policies (DOTMLPF-P), resulting in a trained and ready maneuver force fully integrated into the Army, Combined and Joint Warfighter to maintain the battlefield primacy of our Soldiers and the formations in which they fight.
Key Tasks
Develops operational concepts, and integrates and shapes current and future infantry and armor capabilities, requirements, and force structures.
Represents the Soldier user in the acquisition process for infantry and armor systems.
Conducts experiments, collects and analyzes data to validate concepts/capabilities.
Supports Brigade Combat Teams and Security Force Assistance Brigades.
Mission
The Maneuver Support Capability Development Integration Directorate (MS CDID) provides unity of effort to advance the Army’s development of protection capabilities, which are critical to denying enemy freedom of action, enabling access, and preserving critical capabilities, assets, and activities. The MS CDID executes maneuver support and protection activities in support of the Army and Joint Force, enabling Joint and Combined arms teams to dominate advanced peer adversaries from competition through conflict. The MS CDID accomplishes its work through the development, integration and synchronization of Army Protection concepts and capabilities, as enabled by four core competencies:
Core Competencies
Vision
The Medical CDID is the premier designer of integrated and effective world-class military medical capabilities.
Mission
Enabling the Army Health System by developing concepts and requirements, informed by experimentation and integrated to deliver medical capabilities to meet the needs of the future Army and the Joint Force.
Mission
The MC CDID develops, integrates, and synchronizes Echelons above Brigade (EAB) HQs and Army Mission Command (MC) modernization efforts IOT enable Command and Control (C2) of Army, Joint, and partner capabilities to achieve decisive overmatch during Multi-Domain Operations (ADO).
Core Functions:
Operational Description: MC CDID executes Army Modernization Order (AMO) specified tasks and provides Direct Support to MCCOE and CAC on modernization matters pertaining to EAB and MC.
Vision
A team that executes integrated, collaborative efforts across Army Command boundaries to manage current capabilities successfully, as well as develops new concepts and capabilities, and conducts analytical-based experiments to find effective Mission Command and Combined Arms Operations (EAB) solutions for a Force capable of multi-domain operations.
How do we achieve this vision?
Mission
The Sustainment CDID determines, develops, synchronizes and integrates Army sustainment capabilities within the Army and Joint Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) environments from concept to capability development for CASCOM and force modernization proponents across the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership Development, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) domains, resulting in a trained and ready sustainment force fully integrated into the Army, Combined and Joint Warfighter.
Project Convergence Capstone 5, part of the US Army’s campaign of learning and Army Futures Command’s persistent experimentation activities, will take place in the Spring of 2025. Hosted by the US Army, PC-C5 will continue to improve and develop our Joint and Multinational Partner participation. PC-C5 will continue to be executed in the western region of the United States and this iteration will add a distributed scenario across the INDOPACOM theater. PC-C5 is comprised of two scenarios that includes enduring objectives and learning demands evolving from the Project Convergence campaign of persistent experimentation. This concept-driven activity, influenced by the Joint Warfighting Concept, aims to evaluate technology's potential in facilitating cross-domain military operations and unified strategic approaches. We continue to build from previous PC events and increase the complexity on our experimentation objectives as we design the Army of 2040.
On the future battlefield the U.S. Army will never fight alone, and the integration of forces is a key component of dominating the future fight. Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5), an Army hosted joint and multination, two-phase, “in-the-dirt” experiment, will integrate with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, Space Force, and military partners from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France and Japan in early 2025.
The U.S. Army will host Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5), a joint and multination, two-phase, “in-the-dirt” experiment in early 2025.
PC-C5 participants include the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, Space Force, and militaries from partner and allied countries.
PC-C5 is a culmination of numerous preceding exercises, experimentations, and events; it provides a critical venue to identify and refine recommendations necessary to transform the Army and ensure future war-winning readiness.
Project Convergence - Capstone 4 is a Joint and Multinational force experiment taking place from February to March 2024. PC-C4 provided a critical venue to transform and ensure future war-fighting readiness. (U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Wheeler Brunschmid)
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