Gen. Edward Daly, commanding general of Army Materiel Command speaks to a room of AMC and Installation Management Command employees during his visit to IMCOM HQ Sept. 23 at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Gen. Edward Daly, commanding general of Army Materiel Command, visited the Installation Management Command headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 23, to discuss key Army readiness issues.

Daly was briefed on the facility investment plan and the installation energy and water plan. Subject matter experts from AMC and IMCOM attended to help with any questions that arose.

“I wanted to come to IMCOM in order to get all of the staff in the room,” said Daly. “AMC and IMCOM succeeding as a team.”

Before the brief, Daly pointed out the importance of IMCOM. AMC has identified seven focus areas to ensure the command is enabling Army priorities, and of those seven, IMCOM heavily contributes to five: Soldier, Civilian, and Family readiness; Installation Readiness & Training support; Organic Industrial Base Readiness; Strategic Power Projection; and Data Analytics & Logistics Information Readiness.

“IMCOM installations are at the tactical level,” said Daly. “Strategic and tactical readiness is important to the Army.”

Dr. Juanita Christensen, director of AMC G4, led the FIP brief at the IMCOM academy.

“This is perfect,” said Daly during the brief. “This is exactly what I want to see.”

Part of the FIP is the Army Installation Strategy. The AIS has strategic objectives to include, sustain energy and water infrastructure, optimize energy and water use and reduce their cost.

The FIP consists of six branches, Pacific, CONUS, strategic readiness and force projection, Europe, Fort Hood, and directed efforts.

Following the FIP brief was the installation energy and water plan presentation where Daly listened and gave feedback on the ideas presented.

With IMCOM’s implementation of the IEWP in FY22, the command plans to increase resilience, efficiency and improve affordability and installation energy and water resilience to anticipate and withstand future threats, and drive infrastructure performance improvement.

“There is no question in my mind that each and every one of you has been working extremely hard on this,” said Daly about the brief prep.

The implementation plan supports the number three line of effort of the Army Climate action plan, optimize resilience and sustainability of the built and natural infrastructure.