The Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) is a subordinate command of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). CASCOM is complex and diverse, and its missions affect Army sustainment training readiness and future force sustainment capabilities.
Sustainment Soldiers and capabilities reside in over 93 percent of all Army formations, and 80 percent of sustainment formations belong to the Reserve component. In concert with multiple stakeholders, both within TRADOC and across the Army, CASCOM and its schools train world-class professionals and develop critical capabilities for today and tomorrow.
CASCOM is also nested within the operational Army and provides reach-back training resources for the total sustainment force. In this edition of Army Sustainment, I want to share with you CASCOM's priorities.
The Army chief of staff Gen. Mark A. Milley identified these areas as his top priorities: readiness, future Army, and take care of troops. The priorities of Gen. David G. Perkins, the TRADOC commanding general, are design the future Army, develop Army leadership, and accession and build the Army. In support of these priorities, and those of the deputy chief of staff of the Army, G-4, CASCOM has identified these 10 focus areas:
• Total sustainment force integration (all components and branches).
• Sustained excellence in initial military training, professional military education, and functional training.
• Support for Army and joint partners in capabilities, doctrine, training, and leader development.
• Future sustainment force capability development.
• Proponent for transportation, quartermaster, ordnance, adjutant general, and financial management talent management (in partnership with the Human Resources Command) and logistics, sustainment force modernization, and operational contract support.
• Development and integration of sustainment mission command enablers (the Global Combat Support System-Army, General Fund Enterprise Business System, Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, and Sustainment Readiness Tool).
• Support training readiness across the joint force.
• Community engagement and strategic communication.
• Ensuring that resources are aligned with priorities and that decisions are resource-informed.
• Team Fort Lee: troops, civilians, and families.
As we look to the future, CASCOM will continue to execute its core mission of preparing sustainment professionals to successfully accomplish current and future operational missions. With your feedback and partnership, we will assist in developing the future sustainment force while simultaneously providing the Army with resilient sustainment leaders and Soldiers of impeccable moral character. Support starts here!
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Maj. Gen. Darrell K. Williams is the commanding general of the Combined Arms Support Command and Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee, Virginia.
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This article was published in the March-April 2016 issue of Army Sustainment magazine
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