Articles from Army Magazine, AUSA News, and Headline News relating to the Association of the United States Army's Annual Meeting
The concert took place in the main ballroom at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., and was sponsored by Veterans United
Army National Guard leaders offered insights on overcoming the challenges of maintaining readiness, and shared lessons learned from recent deployments during a panel discussion this week at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Leading the conversation was Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Kadavy, director of the Army National Guard, who outlined changes in the way Guard soldiers will train, mobilize and deploy. Called ARNG 4.0, the evolutionary shift is meant to ramp up the level of readiness to be close to that of the regular Army.
Top civilian executives who work with the Army should come out of their comfort zones in order to help the Army address urgent needs, Acting Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy said.
“We need a war of ideas,” McCarthy told members of the Senior Executive Service at a breakfast meeting today during the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Underscoring the week’s theme of readiness and modernization, McCarthy told executives that the Army is armed with yesterday’s equipment while heading into modern battle zones.
Thomas Webber, director of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, provided an overview of the Army’s progress in developing and deploying high-energy laser (HEL) defense, at a briefing this week at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting & Exposition
While the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter will remain a mainstay of Army vertical-lift aviation for years to come, plans are afoot to develop its replacement. While the new aircraft is probably 20 years away from a production-line startup, prospective contractors have distinct ideas about how it would look and perform.
For NATO to deter any possibility of further aggression by Russia, it must demonstrate true “land power dominance,” and the alliance is working to achieve that by reversing a decade of cuts in defense budgets and military forces, a multinational panel of army officers said.
Gaining credible land power dominance could not only prevent an open attack, but also could deter Russia from more subtle aggression through asymmetrical actions, or what has become known as hybrid warfare, the officers said during a forum at this week’s Association of the U.S. Army Meeting and Exposition.
On the third and final day of the 2017 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Association of the U.S. Army, acting Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy will give a major speech, there’ll be a joint-service discussion about future warfare, and everything wraps up with a special dinner.
McCarthy and Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan will speak at the ticketed Sustaining Member Luncheon.
“Combat readiness is our No. 1 priority,” Milley said. “The need has become more apparent.” And, he said, it may be accelerating.
North America is vulnerable to an array of natural disasters and manmade threats, and cooperation with partners and allies will be critical.
Milley said the U.S. was formed on a “very powerful idea … that here in America we will have a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
