ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Military House and Missile Protection Command’s chief stated the command has the lead position within the Military’s House Imaginative and prescient supporting multidomain operations and defending the USA.
Lt. Gen. Sean A. Gainey, USASMDC commanding common, spoke at a Espresso Collection occasion hosted by the Affiliation of the U.S. Military at AUSA’s headquarters, July 23, 2024, in Arlington.
“Proper now, primarily based off of the place the Military has moved in a few of our demand necessities, we really feel we’re on path to fulfill our modernization targets,” Gainey stated. “Relying on how we transfer ahead probably impacts modernization. As of proper now, we’re transferring on the precise path. There aren’t any points presently progressing ahead with the drive construction plan that we now have and the expansion that we now have in place.”
He mentioned the command’s initiatives to steer a proof-of-concept demonstration for utilizing C-UAS within the homeland to assist U.S. Northern Command decide find out how to transfer ahead with C-UAS capabilities throughout the continental United States.
“Warfare is altering drones and all of the capabilities that they might want,” Gainey stated. “We do our personal inside science and expertise work so we’re capable of do the hole evaluation throughout the house and missile protection portfolio by our (House and Missile Protection) Heart of Excellence. Then our Heart of Excellence is ready to stroll down and doc to our technical heart from an [science and technology] perspective.
“They’ll exit and work intently with trade and see what’s on the market to assist get after a number of the challenges that we now have transferring ahead,” he added. “We’re having to leverage extra functionality for a mission set with our modernization. We’re constructing primarily based off figuring out that there’s a 360-degree risk.”
Gainey stated everyone is concerned in house and needs to be ready to battle in a degraded denied surroundings and be capable of leverage house.
“We at SMDC developed an Military House Coaching Technique that basically focuses on how do you get house functionality and house consciousness, all the best way all the way down to the tactical degree,” Gainey stated. “We leverage that with our house specialists inside formations in our divisions. We’re basically constructing it inside the schoolhouse and preliminary coaching, all the time by the coaching pipeline, and integrating house as a part of consciousness.”
Gainey talked in regards to the future house operations navy occupational specialty and the way it will profit the Military and its future house department.
“You might have an initiative on the house MOS,” Gainey stated. “A variety of nice work by the leaders in imaginative and prescient that got here earlier than me seeing that we are able to not proceed to do enterprise as traditional in the best way we function proper now as we pull Troopers from air protection.
“We’ll change these Troopers to 40 delta MOS to the place now they’re house Troopers and so they’re specialists,” he added. “In order that they get fundamental coaching all the best way up, and you then get knowledgeable noncommissioned officer, which we’re actually enthusiastic about. We consider it is a stepping stone to an area department.”
By Jason Cutshaw, USASMDC
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