Modernizing Army modernization

The Army is at 'an inflection point,' and modernizing is job No. 1 and priority No. 1. But modernization will take every ounce of leaders' will and a massive culture change to the slowest, most hidebound acquisition system in DOD to make it a reality.

There's a new wave of change--a big one--cresting in Army acquisition, with the potential to fundamentally reorganize how the Army will accomplish its modernization priorities and a sense of urgency born of real-time, real-life threats to U.S. military prowess.

About a dozen acquisition reform initiatives aimed at getting needed battlefield solutions to the warfighter faster have washed over the Army since the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. Now Pentagon leadership has called for DOD and the Army to take quick, dramatic action in modernization and acquisition to address irrefutable advances in military technology by four major potential threats--North Korea, Russia, China and Iran--in addition to nonstate adversaries. Indeed, in many respects, the Army leadership team seems to have been handpicked by Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis to do just that. 


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