WASHINGTON -- Reviewing world events and Army priorities, the Aviation and Missile Command's Commander Maj. Gen. Doug Gabram encouraged employees at an Aug. 9 town hall to ensure they are doing what is necessary to meet their mission every day in support of Soldier readiness.
AMCOM's higher headquarters, the Army Materiel Command, is the materiel integrator for the Army, and it must ensure a sustainable level of readiness in order to support chief of staff of the Army priorities and combatant commander requirements. Most important among the priorities for AMC are the Pacific Command and Central Command areas of responsibility, but providing support to Forces Command is also important to provide the forces needed to meet the nation's defense requirements.
AMCOM is committed to supporting those priorities, Gabram emphasized during the town hall.
"You have to be ready and it's our job to be as ready as we can be" when the nation calls on its military strength, he said. "This is completely different from setting up equipment in Kuwait (for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan). It's completely different when you are focused on a peer-to-peer adversary."
Toward that end, Gabram highlighted AMCOM's realignment and reorganization efforts that focus on operational readiness and optimizing supply chain. He also touched on the status of Unified Action, which realigned the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, and the Army Contracting Command - Redstone with AMCOM, as well as efforts to streamline information technology systems through fiscal 2018.
Such developments, he said, are in line with AMC Commander Gen. Gus Perna's guidance to operationalize AMCOM; synchronize and integrate capabilities; and improve senior leader communication so that the commanding general's intent is relayed to the entire workforce.
AMCOM's reorganization efforts are "moving some things for the right reasons, so that we can better focus them on the mission, better focus them on the AMC commander's priorities," Gabram said. Meanwhile, Unified Action is "paying dividends for Army readiness. As we prepare for the future, we need every ounce of these relationships to pull together."
The reorganization ensures AMCOM is organized in the most effective and efficient structure to enable aviation, missile and calibration materiel readiness. A result of operationalizing AMCOM will be shifting our focus toward speed, accuracy and quality in achieving our mission, Gabram said.
As part of the reorganization, the Readiness Directorate (including responsibility of logistics assistance representatives) transitioned from the AMCOM Logistics Center to the AMCOM G-3. In addition, the G-5 (Future Plans) has combined with the G-3 in order to provide more continuity between ongoing operational support and future planning. These changes, Gabram said, will allow the AMCOM Logistics Center to focus on its mission of sustainable and materiel readiness, optimizing the depots and emphasizes accountability.
A key part of an organization's success is ensuring that its senior leaders make communication to the workforce a top priority, the AMCOM commander said.
"It's up to you how you communicate … but you have to help us get the word out. Supervisors have to help us communicate throughout the workforce," Gabram said. "We have to hold ourselves accountable because the stakes are high."
The reorganization, along with Unified Action, "will make our relationships a little bit tighter. We will all work together in support of the readiness mission. We will make sure we are doing the right things and not doing things because that's the way it's been done for the past 15 years. I'm not a status quo kind of guy," Gabram said.
"What has to be most important to us is speed, accuracy and quality. We have to move faster, be more maneuverable and be more agile," he said.
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