Esper wants rulebook to ensure Futures Command is 'fast moving, innovative and future-thinking'

By Jason Sherman / January 28, 2019 at 3:34 PM
Army Secretary Mark Esper has commissioned an influential advisory panel to recommend how the service's new modernization command -- established as part of a major reorganization in July 2018 in response to decades of failed acquisition projects -- should operate "to create a fast-moving, innovative and future-thinking organization." On Jan. 4, Esper directed the Army Science Board to conduct a study on Army Futures Command, formed last summer and slated to reach full operational capability this July, "to develop recommendations...

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