State of the Army 2025
The entire service is trying to transform “in contact.”
Meghann Myers | April 18, 2025
Army Technology Defense Budget
The Army is going all-in on its effort to finally crack the code on rapid acquisition in a giant bureaucracy.
Transformation in Contact is in its second wave this year, expanding beyond infantry brigade combat teams to Stryker and armored units with planned expansion for protection and sustainment troops to get their chance to test the latest technology in the field and report back with their suggestions.
“So in the Army, we like to say they're only lessons observed—they're not lessons learned until we actually change how we train and operate, change how we organize, and then change how we buy things, and that is the idea behind transforming in contact,” Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, told Defense One in a recent interview.
George had just returned from visiting 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Germany at the Combined Resolve exercise, where soldiers tested out the TiC concept in cold weather for the first time.
“And so we learned a lot of lessons about, you know, battery technology as an example, and the challenges with cold weather,” George said. “And that had a lot of impact with the drones that we were flying.”
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