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New US Army Concept Highlights Innovation, Multi-Agency Strategy

Sun, 10/12/2014 - 9:34pm

New US Army Concept Highlights Innovation, Multi-Agency Strategy by Joe Gould, Defense News

… Center for Strategic and International Studies analyst Maren Leed said the Army’s operating concept is “intended to be an umbrella for a lot of experimentation and conceptual work, but also include an institutional component: How do we do acquisition differently, how do we address some of the institutional functions in new ways.”

Training and Doctrine Command chief Gen. David Perkins said the service will produce “war-fighting challenges” each quarter to guide innovation and help the Army be more adaptable. The operating concept, which contains 20 challenges, describes them as driving development of the future force and the source for capabilities the Army must possess to win…

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