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12/23/2018 ArmyWarfightingChallenges - Army Capabilities Integration Center
Army Warfighting Challenges
Updates As of 6/8/2018:
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Warfighting Challenge #1
Develop Situational Understanding

How to develop and sustain a high degree of situational understanding while operating in complex environments
against determined, adaptive enemy organizations.
Lead
Intelligence Center of Excellence (ICoE)
Learning Demands
1. Learning Demands for AWFC #1 are For Official Use Only (FOUO).
Warfighting Challenge #2/3
Shape the Security Environment

How the Army influences the security environment and engages key actors and local/regional forces in order to
consolidate gains and achieve sustainable security outcomes in support of Geographic Combatant Commands and
Joint requirements.
Lead
Mission Command Center of Excellence (MCCoE)
Learning Demands
1. How can the Army develop a common operating picture of security cooperation activities among the
components, including special operations forces and UA partners, to ensure unity of effort for activities that
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mutually support the Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) and GCC goals?
2. What host nation information is necessary to accurately identify security cooperation opportunities and
assess the outcomes of engagements across all domains (to include the presence or anticipated occurrence
of mega-cities)?
3. How does the Army improve training and educational effectiveness to advance the proficiency and readiness
of Host Nation (HN) forces?
4. How can Army Service Component Command’s (ASCC) Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) planning
integrate Regionally-Aligned Forces (RAF) to improve efficiency and achieve theater objectives?
5. How can the Army better enable ASCCs to identify supporting objectives, identify requirements, set priorities
for countries and resources, and assess the activity and its impact on the theater security objective?
6. How can the Army maximize the potential of personal relationships built through international military
education and training as a force multiplier for security cooperation activities?
7. How can TRADOC ensure Army personnel understand the nuances of planning, executing, and assessing
Army Security Cooperation activities prior to assignment at ASCCs?
8. How can the Army train, sustain, and incorporate the skills of cultural awareness and language training
throughout Soldiers’ careers?
9. How does the Army generate and sustain forces to support the GCC’s SFA requirements for developing
relationships and strengthening partner land forces, while also conducting bilateral/multi-national exercises
and unexpected contingencies?
10. What are the Army force structure requirements that best enable sustained partner activity operations
necessary to develop shared aims, goals, and objectives?
Adapt the Institutional Army and Innovate

How to improve the rate of innovation to drive capability development and deliver DOTMLPF-P solutions to the
warfighter at a pace that meets operational demand within the existing constraints of the acquisition and budgeting
processes.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. What are the individual, organizational, and institutional barriers that impede innovation that don’t require
change to laws?
2. How does the Army as an institution anticipate change in the operating environment to produce solutions?
3. How does the Army harness the collective creative capacity that exists throughout the force to continue to
build adaptive leaders and a more responsive institution?
4. How and what are the mechanisms that will enable the Army to increase collaboration with members of
industry, academia, and think-tanks?
5. How can the Army harness innovative solutions through crowd sourcing?
6. What are the layers of bureaucracy or institutional oversight that can be decreased or removed within the
acquisition life-cycle?
7. How can the acquisition life-cycle process change to become a more agile, adaptive, and responsive
process?
8. How will an inability to increase the rate of innovation effect Army operations in dense urban areas or
megacities?
Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction

How to prevent, reduce, eliminate, and mitigate the use and effects of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) threats and hazards on friendly forces
and civilian populations.
Lead
Maneuver Support Center of Excellence (MSCoE)
Learning Demands
1. How do future forces detect, protect and mitigate future WMD threats and CBRNE hazards to maintain
freedom of action and increase situational understanding across wide areas and in dense urban
environments?
2. How do future forces deny the ability for WMD proliferation pathways to prevent adversary development of
WMD?
3. How do future forces conduct sustained operations in a CBRN hazard environment?
4. How do future forces support the attribution of WMD threats and CBRN hazards?
5. How do future forces support elimination of adversary WMD programs?
6. How do future forces prevent the employment of enemy WMD capabilities?
7. How do future forces support CBRN consequence management operations to save lives, mitigate human
suffering and protect infrastructure?
Conduct Homeland Operations

How to operate across multiple domains and with multiple partners to defend the homeland and mitigate the effects
of attacks and disasters.
Lead
Maneuver Support Center of Excellence (MSCoE)
Learning Demands
1. What are the legal and policy impediments to effective homeland operations, and how to mitigate them in
order to protect the homeland?
2. How does the future Army contribute to an active, layered global defense in the forward regions and in the
approaches to prevent, and protect the homeland against, emerging threats and hazards?
3. How do future Army forces within the homeland contribute to an active, layered global defense to prevent,
and protect the homeland against, emerging threats and adversaries?
4. How does the Army ensure the resilience necessary to conduct the full range of military operations after
domestic disasters or attacks?
5. How will future Army installations integrate domestic operations into their core missions and capabilities?
6. How do Army forces support civil authorities in response to complex catastrophes and disasters in complex
urban environments in order to save lives, minimize human suffering, and protect critical infrastructure?
7. How does the Army seamlessly transition between, or simultaneously execute, DSCA and HD operations in
the homeland?
8. How does the Army execute simultaneous support to Humanitarian Assistants/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) and
foreign consequence management (FCM) operations while maintaining capacity for domestic disaster
response?
9. How should Army organizations change to meet requirements for future homeland operations?
10. How does the Army respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) events in the
homeland?
Conduct Space, Cyberspace, Electronic Warfare,

and Communications Operations
How to assure access to and integrity of critical data and information, across multiple domains, in an increasingly
contested and congested operational environment, while simultaneously denying the same to the enemy.
Lead
Cyber Center of Excellence (CyberCoE)
Learning Demands
1. How can the Army engineer the tactical network to reduce user complexity, improve capacity, increase
resiliency, maximize bandwidth efficiency, enable dynamic reconfiguration, and improve EW and
cybersecurity capabilities, while becoming expeditionary? (CCoE)
2. What is the optimal way for the Army to organize the activities associated with cyberspace operations to
maximize cyber capabilities across the Army Warfighting Functions while minimizing required resources?
(CCoE)
3. What is the optimal method to employ space, cyberspace, electronic warfare, and communications
capabilities within the Multi-Domain Battle framework, to include dense urban areas and megacities, to
deliver effects required by commanders at all echelons? (CCoE/SMDC)
4. How can the Army better prepare its leaders and Soldiers to operate in Denied, Degraded, and Disrupted
Space Operational Environments (D3SOEs)? (SMDC)
5. What operations must Army forces execute, across all phases, to assure overmatch and freedom of action for
Army and joint forces?
6. What capabilities do Army forces need to rapidly establish aerial, high altitude, and space architectures that
enable an expeditionary and globally deployed Army? (SMDC/CCoE)
7. How does the Army develop and maintain situational understanding within the space and cyberspace
domains to help create and exploit temporary windows of superiority? (CCoE/SMDC)
8. What are the intersections, overlaps, gaps, and seams between space, cyberspace, electromagnetic
spectrum operations, military intelligence, and information operations and how can the Army effectively
integrate these operations to support Unified Land Operations? (CCoE)
9. How does the Army execute Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR), ensuring that Army forces have assured and
reliable access to position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information while denying the same to our
adversaries? (SMDC)
10. How does the Army execute Special Technical Operations (STO), ensuring that emerging special technical
capabilities (such as Alternative Compensatory Control Measures, ACCM) are integrated to support Unified
Land Operations? (SMDC)
Enhance Realistic Training
How to train Soldiers, leaders and units to ensure they are prepared to accomplish the mission across the range of
military operations while operating in complex environments against determined, adaptive enemy organizations.
Lead
CAC-T
Learning Demands
1. Training Environment. How does the Army improve and evolve the Integrated Training Environment in order
to effectively replicate all conditions of the future operational environment – creating adaptive realistic
training– while also improving and evolving unit training management and readiness reporting?
2. Megacity or Dense Urban Environment. How does the Army train to win in dense urban areas or mega city
environments?
3. Training and Education Development. How does the Army continue to improve its training and education
development policy, requirements, processes, products, concepts, strategies, plans, and tools?
4. Training Management. How does the Army continue to improve current training management systems and
processes; while continuing to improve Unit Training Management (UTM), and nest Army Training
Management Systems (ATMS) with Training Information Infrastructure (TII) and Army Training Information
System (ATIS) efforts?
5. Training Support. How does the Army improve the effectiveness of training and educational enablers to
improve outcomes, return on investments and increase Soldier, Leader and unit proficiency and readiness?
6. Live Training. How does the Army improve the sustainment of crew and small unit collective maneuver,
mission command training, home station ranges and training land, and its combat training centers?
7. Training Information Systems. How does the Army continue to improve its Training Information System and
allow more efficient, effective, and intuitive access to training information?
8. Distributed Learning. How does the Army continue to improve its delivery of rigorous, relevant, and tailored
distributed training and education at the point of need from a responsive and accessible delivery capability?
Improve Soldier, Leader, and Team Performance

How to develop resilient Soldiers, adaptive leaders, and cohesive teams committed to the Army professional ethic
that are capable of accomplishing the mission in environments of uncertainty and persistent danger.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. Future Operational Environment (FOE). How will the FOE impact the performance of soldiers, leaders, and
small teams across the range of military operations required to achieve overmatch?
2. Recruit/Assess/Train. How can the Army best recruit, assess, develop, and manage soldiers and leaders
throughout their lifecycle, with increased focus on individual competencies and attributes, to build effective
and adaptable teams?
3. Human Performance Research and Assessment. How can the Army optimize the cognitive, physical, and
social performance of Army Professionals through the conduct and application of research, development, and
assessment?
4. Attributes. What attributes/characteristics/traits are required across the Army to enable essential
performance?
5. Readiness. How does the Army assess and maintain fielded human performance solutions (materiel and
non-materiel) across the total force in support of readiness and operations?
6. What human-level conditions, operations, essential performance, and enabling attributes are relevant for
subterranean and dense urban environments?
Develop Agile and Adaptive Leaders

How to develop agile, adaptive, and innovative leaders who thrive in conditions of uncertainty and chaos and are
capable of visualizing, describing, directing, and leading and assessing operations in complex environments and
against adaptive enemies.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. How should the Army demonstrate its commitment to the Army Profession, life-long learning, and
development?
2. How should the Army balance its commitment to the training, education, and experience components of
leader development?
3. How should the Army manage military and civilian talent to benefit both the institution and individual?
4. How should the Army select and develop leaders with positive leader attributes and proficiency in core
leadership competencies for responsibility at higher levels?
5. How should the Army prepare adaptive and creative leaders capable of operating within the complexity of the
operational environment and the entire range of military operations?
6. How should leader development enable or support the realization of Mission Command?
7. How should the Army demonstrate valuing a broad range of leader development experiences and
developmental opportunities?
Conduct Air-Ground Reconnaissance and

Security Operations
How Army formations conduct continuous integrated reconnaissance and security operations across multiple
domains (air/land/cyberspace/space/maritime) to rapidly develop the situation while in contact with the enemy and
civilian populations.
Lead
Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE)
Learning Demands
1. How do Army forces combine organic and joint capabilities at all command echelons across all domains with
reconnaissance and security operations over wide areas to reduce enemy options and protect the force?
2. How will Army forces gain and maintain threat overmatch (enable maximum range detection, identification
and engagement) against adversaries employing advanced countermeasures and deception techniques?
3. What DOTMLPF-P solutions are required to enable reconnaissance & security operations in the cyberspace
and space domains and in CBRNE, dense urban, and subterranean environments?
4. What DOTMLPF-P changes are needed to effectively plan, synchronize and execute air-ground
reconnaissance at all echelons from platoon to corps?
5. How do Army forces conduct persistent, cross-domain, integrated air-ground reconnaissance and security
operations using manned and unmanned platforms to collect, develop, and report near real time actionable
combat information and provide early warning, reaction time, maneuver space, and security? (MCoE and
USAACE, Aug 17)
6. What are the air-ground (cross domain) reconnaissance and security capabilities required at each echelon to
enable BCT semi-independent operations?
7. What are the Soldier, leader and unit competencies required for Army forces to effectively conduct
reconnaissance and security operations?
8. How does the Army maintain network capabilities in a contested environment that supports processing and
exploitation of combat information, and dissemination of intelligence?
9. How can the Army develop and integrate remote sensor and robotic/autonomous technologies to support air-
ground reconnaissance and security operations?
10. What are the conventional forces - special operation forces (CF-SOF) interdependencies necessary to
effectively plan, synchronize and execute air-ground (cross-domain) reconnaissance & security operations at
the operational level? (SOCoE, Nov 14)
Conduct Joint Expeditionary Maneuver and Entry

Operations
The Army needs formations that can rapidly deploy into contested environments, quickly transition to operations,
and be sustained to maintain high operational tempo with the overmatch necessary to destroy or defeat enemy
forces.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities enable Army forces to conduct joint entry operations in complex A2AD
environments from strategic distances and rapidly transition from movement to maneuver, present multiple
dilemmas to the enemy, and accomplish mission objectives?
2. What cross-domain capabilities do maneuver forces require to conduct initial entry operations at multiple
points simultaneously?
3. How do Army forces conduct forcible and early entry operations; transport personnel, equipment and
supplies; and conduct air medical evacuation from land and sea bases to austere or unprepared landing
zones?
4. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities do Army forces require to conduct forcible and early entry operations into or in
close proximity to dense urban areas?
5. How do future Army forces deploy combat-configured, combined arms forces rapidly, transition quickly, and
conduct joint combined arms operations of sufficient scale and ample duration?
6. How do Army forces integrate and synchronize joint, interorganizational and multinational capabilities to
protect early entry forces from enemy A2AD threats?
7. How do Army forces ensure timely and sufficient distribution of intelligence products to support commander’s
decision making in the conduct of forcible and early entry operations?
8. How can Army forces empower subordinate leaders to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative consistent with
the commander's intent regardless of the condition of the mission command network or other cross-domain
enablers?
9. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities do early entry forces require to realize mission command in degraded
environments to support expeditionary maneuver?
10. How do Army forces exploit significantly improved aircraft performance to gain a maneuver advantage?
(USAACE, Nov 14)
11. How do Army forces leverage the sea as maneuver space to execute cross-domain maneuver?
12. What CONUS/OCONUS infrastructure capabilities are necessary to ensure the rapid deployment of entry
operation forces? (MSCoE, Nov 14)
13. How can Maneuver forces better utilize Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) to facilitate rapid deployment?
(SCoE, Nov 14)
Conduct Wide Area Security

How do Army forces establish and maintain security across wide areas (wide area security) and across multiple
domains to protect forces, populations, infrastructure, and activities necessary to shape security environments,
consolidate gains, and set conditions for achieving policy goals.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities enable Army forces to consolidate gains, including the relocation of displaced
civilians, reestablishment of law and order, performance of humanitarian assistance, and restoration of key
infrastructure?
2. How do Army forces integrate and synchronize joint, interorganizational, and multinational capabilities to
protect: populations, friendly forces, installations, borders, infrastructure, and activities?
3. How do Army forces transition from the occupation of territory and control of populations gained as a result of
military operations, to the transfer of control to legitimate authorities building the capability to govern and
secure the host nation?
4. How do Army forces conduct persistent, cross domain, integrated reconnaissance and security operations to
provide early and accurate warning, preserve freedom of maneuver, protect populations and critical
infrastructure, and consolidate gains?
5. How do Army forces conduct local security across formations and echelons to develop situational
understanding, preclude enemy options, and protect the force from dangers?
6. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities are required to enable reconnaissance and security operations across wide
areas that may include CBRNE, dense urban, subterranean, and other complex environments?
7. How will advanced manned and unmanned air/ground capabilities be integrated to facilitate collection,
development, and dissemination of actionable combat information for rapid targeting across domains?
(USAACE, Dec 15)
8. How do Army forces employ remote and standoff CBRN detection and integrate disparate, non-CBRN
detectors to enhance situational understanding during joint combined operations?
9. How do Army forces operate with and through populations in uncertain complex, highly-competitive and
politically volatile operating environments in order to enhance regional stability and enable a range of
strategic options? (SOCoE, Jan 15)
10. How do Army forces conduct engineer operations to assure mobility, enhance protection, enable force
projection and logistics, build partner capacity and develop infrastructure? (MSCoE, Nov 14)
11. How do Army forces plan and design, secure, construct, operate, and transfer or close contingency bases to
provide a protected location from which to project and sustain combat power? (MSCoE, Nov 14)
12. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities enable Army forces to conduct personnel recovery of isolated personnel to
prevent the capture and exploitation of U.S. Army Soldiers, civilians, and contractors by adversaries?
Ensure Interoperability and Operate in Joint, Inter-

organizational, Multinational Environment
How to integrate joint, inter-organizational, and multi-national partner capabilities and campaigns to ensure unity of
effort and accomplish missions across the range of military operations.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. How do Army units interact (technical, human and procedural) with UAPs to conduct the operations process
(plan, prepare, execute and assess) and maintain the operational tempo for achieving the commander’s
intent?
2. How do Army units and UAOPs efficiently share mission critical data/information to achieve mutual situational
awareness/situational understanding (SA/SU) in a Joint, Inter-organizational and Multi-national environment?)
3. How do Army units (Corps and Below) integrate UAPs into the Department of Defense Information Network –
Army (DoDIN-A) in order to execute Unified Land Operations (ULO), maintain the operational tempo, and
achieve the commander’s intent?
4. How does the Army enable UAP access to information and data across multiple classifications in order to
share mission critical information, maintain the operational tempo, and achieve the commander’s intent?
5. How do Army units engage and interact with UAPs with differing Mission Command philosophies so as to
quickly develop trust and exercise initiative as one cohesive team?
6. How do Army units conduct realistic training events that replicates a JIM environment and incorporate
network linkages and interoperability with all JIM partners?
7. How does the Army coordinate, synchronize and deconflict Army operations with Unified Action Partners
during Urban Operations?
Conduct Cross-Domain Maneuver

How Army forces, operating as part of a joint, interorganizational, and multinational force, train, organize, equip, and
posture sufficiently to deter or defeat highly capable peer threats in the degraded, contested, lethal, and complex
future operational environment.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. How do Army forces create synergy with capabilities employed across all domains to increase relative
combat power, pose enemies with multiple dilemmas, and defeat or destroy enemy forces?
2. What are the mobility, firepower, protection, intelligence, mission command, and sustainment capabilities
necessary to conduct cross-domain maneuver while dispersed at extended distances and for ample
duration?
3. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities do Army forces require to maneuver and survive in close combat against
enemies with robotic and autonomous systems, UAS, manned aircraft (rotary and fixed wing), and advanced
long-range indirect fire capabilities?
4. How do Army forces move formations rapidly to control tempo and momentum of maneuver to enable them to
concentrate combat power in decisive spaces?
5. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities do Army forces require to identify, secure, and reduce obstacles and hazards;
breach structures; and bridge gaps to guarantee unimpeded freedom of maneuver during joint combined
arms operations?
6. How does the Army rapidly and effectively shape complex terrain including dense urban areas and
subterranean environments from the small unit to corps level using lethal and nonlethal capabilities?
7. How do Army forces produce accurate firing data that enables the delivery of cross-domain, precision and
volume, scalable (non-lethal to lethal) fires during joint combined arms operations to destroy or neutralize
enemy forces while obscuring friendly forces to support ground maneuver and shaping operations?
8. How Army forces obscure their formations from do elevated (UAS, manned aircraft, and space-based
systems) and ground based sensors (radar, unmanned ground systems (UGS)) across the EMS to prevent
detection from threat multi-spectral sensors?
9. How do Army forces employ space and cyberspace capabilities that allow maneuver forces to identify threats,
defend the Army information network, exploit access to enemy networks; disrupt machine assisted learning
tools; and achieve offensive effects to support tactical and operational maneuver?
10. How does the Army employ manned and unmanned air-ground teams against an enemy integrated air
defense threat? (USAACE, Dec 15)
11. What are the DOTMLPF-P implications of significantly increased aircraft performance (range, speed,
payload, performance in objective area) for the conduct of Combined Arms Maneuver (cross-domain)?
(USAACE, Nov 14)
12. How will capabilities of manned and unmanned platforms be exploited during conduct of reconnaissance to
collect and develop combat information and disseminate information to supported commander and staff?
(USAACE, Nov 14)
13. How do Army forces obscure, without inhibiting friendly forces maneuver, the enemy’s ability to locate, see,
hear, monitor and render effects on friendly forces in all spectrums and across all domains to maintain
freedom of movement, force protection, and mission command throughout an area of operations?
14. What DOTMLPF-P capabilities do Army forces required to mimic friendly forces or “spoof” enemy forces to
mask friendly high value assets and to lure out enemy detection assets, fires and SOF?
15. How do Army forces project an augmented reality image or signature onto appropriate threat sensors to
obscure mission command systems, locations, and composition or provide faulty targeting data to threat
systems?
Set the Theater Sustain Operations and Maintain

Freedom of Movement
How to set the theater, provide strategic agility to the joint force, and maintain freedom of movement and action
during sustained and high tempo operations at the end of extended lines of communication in austere
environments.
Lead
Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE)
Learning Demands
1. Identify and assess the Army’s roles/responsibilities to Set (Surge) the Theater ISO ASCC/JFC?
2. How does the Army, with joint, inter-organizational, and multi-national partners, regenerate combat power in
sufficient scale to enable cross-domain maneuver, and achieve the Joint Force Commander's objectives?
3. How does the Army underscore US commitment to Allies/Partners and better assist the GCC to shape the
theater and build partner capacity?
4. What are the attributes/characteristics of resilient and reliable sustainment and distribution networks ISO
semi-independent formations in dispersed operations?
5. What changes are required to enable a more lethal and agile Expeditionary Force that maintains combat
effectiveness and overmatch?
6. How does the Army, with joint, inter-organizational, and multi-national partners, sustain global cross domain
maneuver, in sufficient scale, and for ample duration to achieve JFC objectives?
7. How should the Army mitigate constraints and vulnerabilities with a shrinking overseas defense posture while
maintaining the ability to rapidly respond to “unknown, unknowable, and ever changing” global crisis?
8. How does the Army drive fundamental demand reduction IOT conduct semi-independent and dispersed
operations for operational reach and prolonged endurance?
9. How does the Army ensure Freedom of Movement and Action in a Multi-Domain Battle?
10. How does the Army sustain cross domain maneuver in areas of dense urban terrain?
Warfighting Challenge #17/18
Employ Cross-Domain Fires

How to employ cross-domain fires to defeat the enemy and preserve freedom of action across the range of military
operations (ROMO).
Lead
Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE)
Learning Demands
1. How does the Fires Cell in the Operational Fires Command rapidly clear and gain engagement authorization
to employ Army and JIM fires across all domains during JCAM?
2. How does the Fires Cell in the Strategic Fires Command rapidly clear and gain engagement authorization to
employ Army and JIM fires across all domains in ROMO?
3. How does the Operational Fires Command deliver effective cannon, rocket, and missile fires against land, air,
and maritime targets with the capacity, range, and lethality to overmatch enemy capabilities?
4. How does the Strategic Fires Command deliver effective rocket and missile fires against land, air, sea, and
space targets to defend friendly forces and critical assets? (
5. How do the Operational and Strategic Fires Commands employ cross domain fires within a JIM environment,
leveraging joint assets and the capabilities of allied nations?
6. How does the Observation Battery of the Operational Fires Command provide persistent all weather targeting
in dense urban/suburban areas during JCAM?
7. How does the Target Acquisition Battery in the Strategic Fires Command provide persistent all weather
targeting in littorals across ROMO?
8. How does the Fires Cell of the Operational and Strategic Fires Commands integrate Army and JIM sensors to
collect and share information, facilitate targeting and engagements, and provide early warning? (
9. How does the Observation Battery of the Operational Fires Command locate ground and maritime targets
throughout the depth of the joint operational area with sufficient accuracy and timeliness to engage targets
with precision cannon, rocket, and missile fires, achieving desired effects only on designated targets?
10. How does the Operational and Strategic Fires Command leverage space-based capabilities in satellite
communications (SATCOM), position, navigation and timing (PNT), intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR), missile warning (MW), and environmental monitoring (EM) during multi-domain battle?
Exercise Mission Command

How to understand, visualize, describe, and direct operations consistent with the philosophy of mission command to
seize the initiative over the enemy and accomplish the mission across the range of military operations.
Lead
Learning Demands
1. How do 2025-2040 U.S. Army echelons above brigade (EAB) headquarters organize as part of JIM teams to
combine capabilities across domains and instruments of power to deter or defeat aggressive peers?
2. How do 2025-2040 U.S. Army echelons above brigade (EAB) headquarters operate as part of JIM teams to
combine capabilities across domains and instruments of power to deter or defeat aggressive peers?
3. What are the required capabilities that will enable 2025-2040 U.S. Army echelons above brigade (EAB)
headquarters to be capable of defeating aggressive peer state adversaries in ground combat?
4. How do future Army forces, at all echelons and in all conditions, achieve continuous MC?
5. How does the Army create unity of effort to effectively implement mission command to achieve Army and
coalition wide understanding and practice of the MC philosophy leading to successful Unified Land
Operations (ULO) in support of the joint force?
6. How do Army forces, at all echelons and under all conditions, achieve unity of effort to meet operational
requirements with joint, inter-organizational and multi-national partners?
7. How do Army forces, at all echelons and under all conditions, achieve sustainable understanding, training,
employment, and maintenance of automated MC information systems?
8. How do future Army forces achieve the ability to describe, plan, integrate, continuously assess, and
incorporate Cyber Electromagnetic (CEM) activities?
9. How do Army forces, at all echelons and under all conditions, achieve shared knowledge to support
consistent application of Mission Command and Knowledge Management across operational and institutional
domains?
10. How does the Army in a complex urban environment continue to execute mission command?
Develop Capable Formations

How to design Army formations capable of rapidly deploying and conducting operations for ample duration and in
sufficient scale to accomplish the mission.
Lead
Army Capabilities Integration Center, Capabilities Developments Directorate (ARCIC CDD)
Learning Demands
1. How does the Army improve its ability to task organize for purpose while preserving combined arms capability
at the lowest level?
2. How to develop / design our ground formations to conduct decentralized combined arms maneuver with
integrated air-ground operations across contested land, air, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains over
wide areas and in congested and restricted urban terrain that allows them to secure wide areas and control
territory to protect populations and consolidate gains?
3. How to develop formations that allow division and JTF commanders to set the conditions for the close fight
and seize, retain and exploit the initiative?
4. Does a Hybrid maneuver unit consisting of Infantry, Stryker, Mechanized Infantry and Armor increase the
speed and efficiency of employment? If so, what is the optimum formation, company, battalion or brigade?
5. How to identify reductions or efficiencies in overhead that preserve fighting capability?
6. How to develop, train and retain air ground formations?
7. What technology improvements can be provided to the formation in the Near-, Mid-, and Far-Terms which:
a. Reduce the gross weight / cube of the formation's major end items?
b. Allow the execution of mission requirements with far fewer personnel and/or equipment?
c. Improve range, lethality, and precision to overcome anti-access and area denial, extend mutual support
across greater distances to significantly reduce or eliminate the need for external Indirect Fire and TacAir
support?
d. Significantly reduce its sustainment demands?
e. Use of Remote and Autonomous Systems (RAS) (robotics) to increase lethality, improve protection, and
extend Soldiers’ and units’ reach?
f. Insert technologies into formations which obviate the need for separate, specialized functional
organizations?
g. Provide equipment, organizational designs, and deployment TTP that enable formations to deploy and
rapidly transition into operations significantly reducing requirements for Reception, Staging, Onward
Movement and Integration (RSOI)?
h. Allow maximum integration of improved protection, lethality, mobility and power generation without
negatively impacting deployment or sustainment?
8. What organizational design changes can be enacted in the Near-, Mid-, and Far-Terms which improve speed
of employment and/or close or mitigate capability gaps?
9. Can the pooling of resources (i.e. transportation assets, fuel, and weapons systems) reduce deployment
requirements while enabling formations access to resources to conduct operations of ample duration and in
sufficient scale to accomplish the mission?
10. How does the Army use experimentation to ensure the best balance (combat, maneuver support,
sustainment and mix) and stance (ability to react to wide range of contingencies) for the Army to avoid “not
getting it too wrong?”
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Army Warfighting Challenges

Learning Demands: No Change

Develop Situational Understanding

Warfighting Challenge #2/3

Shape the Security Environment

Adapt the Institutional Army and Innovate

Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction

Conduct Homeland Operations

Conduct Space, Cyberspace, Electronic Warfare,

Enhance Realistic Training

Improve Soldier, Leader, and Team Performance

Warfighting Challenge #10

Develop Agile and Adaptive Leaders

Warfighting Challenge #11

Conduct Air-Ground Reconnaissance and

Warfighting Challenge #12

Conduct Joint Expeditionary Maneuver and Entry

Warfighting Challenge #13

Conduct Wide Area Security

Warfighting Challenge #14

Ensure Interoperability and Operate in Joint, Inter-

Warfighting Challenge #15

Conduct Cross-Domain Maneuver

Warfighting Challenge #16

Set the Theater Sustain Operations and Maintain

Warfighting Challenge #17/18

Employ Cross-Domain Fires

Warfighting Challenge #19

Exercise Mission Command

Warfighting Challenge #20

Develop Capable Formations

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