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Army Forms New Cross-Functional Team Focused On Contested Logistics

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

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Army Forms New Cross-Functional Team Focused On Contested Logistics

Gen. James Rainey, Commanding General, U.S. Army Futures Command, serves as the keynote speaker Mar. 29 at the AUSA Global Force Symposium. Photo: Photo by Joseph Kumzak, U.S. Army Medical Command.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Army Futures Command (AFC) is officially standing up a new cross-functional team (CFT) focused on contested logistics, the command’s leader said Wednesday. Gen. James Rainey, the AFC commander, told attendees at the Association of the United States Army’s Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama on Wednesday the new CFT will be based in the city and is set to reach initial operating capability in April. “This CFT is going to be focused on tactical, so think division…

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