FORT EUSTIS— The U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command (FCC) officially celebrated its activation on Feb. 12 with military pomp and circumstance.
The U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command is designing the future force by developing integrated concepts and requirements, informed by experimentation, and synchronized into U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command and Army processes to drive persistent Army modernization.
The Army said that the vision for FCC is the establishment of a cutting edge and distributive center for the exploration of the future that is adept, adaptive, innovative, inquisitive, out of the box, technology enhanced, closely linked to the threat and technology communities and our Joint and Coalition partners and dedicated to examining the future operational environment to provide the Army with a path to the future.
To accomplish this, FCC executes these core functions (Concepts, Experimentation, Requirements, and Integration), ensuring the Army can establish a modernization path to the Army needed 5 to 15 years into the future that can defeat all threats in the Future Operational Environment, the army added.
During the activation ceremony on Feb. 12, Lieutenant General Michael C. McCurry officially took command of the new program.
“We have a lot of work to do. Any table that organizes people and equipment on paper has to be turned into a reality. The staff and the subordinate commanders of this command are excited to do that. We’ll never take our eyes off the wall on future concepts though. We take into account technology, threat, evolving character of war, and we have to be focused on what’s next. That translates into the requirements for our soldiers and what we need to give them to be successful,” McCurry said.
McCurry’s early Army training led him to being stationed at Fort Eustis 35 years ago. Now, he returns to lead the new three star Army command, something he says is a “great honor.”
“This is kind of surreal you know. When you think about it, going from being a lieutenant, learning to fly a helicopter, and test it to make sure it’s operational and now, I’m kind of flying a three star command, testing it, and making sure it’s operational,” McCurry said.
The full activation ceremony can be streamed through DVIDS.