"By leveraging bidirectional communication, research and concepts can shape each other."
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"Team Ignite has figured out how to create an ongoing collaborative space," said Martin Perry, CCDC DAC Warfighter and Futures Integration Division (WFID) Futures Integration Lead. Currently, Team Ignite members are working on expanding the scope of effort to increase collaborations across the Army Modernization Enterprise. The interdependent ideas can be quantified to examine the operational impact of the hypothesized capability in the future operational environment. Rather than conduct research and concept development independently, Team Ignite establishes processes to spur scientifically-informed concepts and warfighter-informed science. The aim of Team Ignite? To lead a systematic, continuous and iterative process of shaping concepts and capabilities for future warfighting, while fostering collaboration between CCDC and FCC, its sister organization under AFC. Based on successful progress and widespread interest in the vision for change, Team Ignite was born in October 2019 as the follow-on effort to the Task Force. In March of 2019, Task Force Ignite, with the help of collaborative partner CCDC Data and Analysis Center (DAC), began piloting events and designing collaboratively-authored products. Phillip Perconti, then director of CCDC Army Research Laboratory (ARL), to oversee a six-month task force to instantiate processes, events and outcomes to realize this AFC vision. Cedric Wins, then commanding general of CCDC, directed Dr. The operational experts writing the Army's Future Concepts that drive Army Acquisition resided in the Training and Doctrine Command, while technical experts in the Army Science and Technology (S&T) community that enable technological solutions resided in the Army Material Command.Ī core design in organizational structure of the newly created AFC was to unite this expertise, creating both the Futures and Concepts Center (FCC)- with operational experts who identify required capabilities to overcome a projected adversary- and the Combat Capabilities and Development Command (CCDC)- with technical experts who execute use-inspired research to provide disruptive warfighter capabilities.ĭuring the transition into AFC, Maj. Prior to the creation of Army Futures Command (AFC), the two communities in the Army with expertise to architect the future resided in separate four-star commands. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption –ĪBERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.