In new directive, US Army reins in Army Futures Command

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In new directive, US Army reins in Army Futures Command
By Jen Judson
May 4, 05:16 PM
Gen. Mike Murray, the first Army Futures Command commander, confirms proper audio during a video call. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, center foreground, was visiting Austin, Texas, during the September 2021 meeting. (Anthony-Matthew Sualog/U.S. Army)

WASHINGTON — The Army secretary has issued a new directive on modernization that sets new boundaries around Army Futures Command and reasserts the role of the service’s acquisition shop.

The directive rescinds the language of previous directives from 2018 and 2020 that establishes Army Futures Command as “leading the modernization enterprise.” It also says the Army’s science and technology arm will fall under the control of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology),or ASAALT, as opposed to under Army Futures Command.

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