FUTURES COMMAND IS ABOUT PROCESS, NOT PRODUCTS

I remember the first time I understood how different the future of warfare would be. I was at the National Training Center in 2014, where I worked in Operations Group as a brigade staff trainer, listening to (now retired) GEN David Perkins outline the new Army Operating Concept. The Army, GEN Perkins argued, had to shift…

WHAT IS ARMY APPLICATIONS LAB?

One of the novel (and therefore least understood) organizations formed under the recently activated Army Futures Command is the Army Applications Lab (AAL).  For this inaugural series of posts in the TDIF blog, I thought it fitting to discuss this startup-within-a-startup, representing a unique intersection of Army and Austin “AAL is the Army’s proponent for disruptive technology,”…