ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Innovation through business process reengineering is central to U.S. Army Futures Command’s mission. This is an area where improvement through reengineering has the potential to improve just about everything the Army does, making it all cost less and happen faster.

The Army is more capable today than it has been in decades, and it will need to remain at the highest level of readiness as the “faint clouds of a coming storm” creep over the horizon, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley said in his keynote remarks at the Eisenhower luncheon at the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.

Today’s Warrior Corner featured a panel presentation with representatives from the Army’s Network and Assured Precision Navigation and Timing Cross Functional Teams (CFT). Hosted by the Network CFT, the briefings served to emphasize the cooperation existing within and between the Army’s eight CFTs.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has made being “ready and lethal” an objective for the U.S. military. The “Ready and Lethal” panel organized by the Institute of Land Warfare at the AUSA Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 9, brought together experienced speakers to examine what this means for the Army.

The Army’s logistical support and sustainment organizations must improve their performance if the operational forces are to be ready to win in any future conflict with a peer competitor, Gen. Gustave Perna, commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, said Oct. 9.

“Our responsibility is to ensure that the maneuver commander has what he needs, when he needs it. Not when he asks for it, but when he needs it,” Perna told a forum at the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.

Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, says she is working to elevate the status of military spouses and to making a difference with spouse employment opportunities.

The Army must switch to an operational model geared toward fighting a large-scale, contested fight, Army leaders said Oct. 9. The leaders made their comments during a morning seminar at the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.

The Army has been focused on stability operations for 17 years, the panelists said, but now must focus on a potential multidimensional fight against a peer adversary, in contested and multiple domains, the four panelists agreed.

In this morning’s Warriors Corner presentation at the 2018 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., Army leaders outlined the status of the Next Generation Combat Vehicle effort.

Army Secretary Mark T. Esper praised congressional aides for their work on the 2019 military budget while Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley assured them that despite political turmoil DoD operates as an “island of stability.”

“Take a deep breath,” Milley said. "There have been tough times in America before.” Esper and Milley spoke at an AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition breakfast of more than 700 people, with most of them members of congressional staff.

The highlight of Day Two of AUSA 2018 is the Eisenhower Luncheon address by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, but this will be a day with a wide mix of events, beginning with a morning appearance by Second Lady of the United States Karen Pence at a family forum and concluding with an evening concert by Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band that is open to anyone registered for the annual meeting.

On-site registration opens at 7:30 a.m. More than 20,000 people were registered on Monday, 4,000 more than last year.