Annual Meeting 2024 News.
During its 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition, the Association of the U.S. Army presented for the third year its National Partner awards, recognizing organizations that provide outstanding support to the association.
When Gen. Randy George became chief of staff of the Army last year, he established four priorities for the service. One of them was “continuous transformation.”
The first initiative to support that priority is what the Army calls “transforming in contact,” a short-term effort to transform but not necessarily “modernize” Army units for the rapidly evolving reality of warfare.
In an Oct. 16 presentation at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition, leaders announced that the service’s cadre of cooks—culinary specialists in the Army’s lexicon—will be relieved of their responsibility of running installation dining facilities under a plan currently in development.
The Army profession requires consistent attention and nurturing because it is “what we’re known for,” said Gen. Gary Brito, commanding general of Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Strengthening the Army profession, Brito noted, is the fourth item on Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s list of four focus areas. It is preceded by warfighting, delivering ready combat formations and continuous transformation, because “it underpins the three above,” he said.
The Army is doubling down on the resilience and readiness of its installations, said Rachel Jacobson, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment.
“Installations are essentially the backbone of what our Army does. Without strong installations that are resilient and that are ready, we can't do what we do. It's that simple,” Jacobson said Oct. 16 during a Warriors Corner presentation on Army installations at the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The Army talks a lot about speeding up the acquisitions process, but Army Contracting Command has a new, concrete goal: No more than six months to award a contract, executive director Danielle Moyer said Oct. 16 at the Association of the U.S. Army's Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The days when it took two years to make an award decision are over, she said.
Almost 75 young professionals from the Army, industry and Association of the U.S. Army chapters gathered Oct. 14–16 for the second annual Generation Next Forum.
Hosted by AUSA’s Center for Leadership in conjunction with the association’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., the theme for this year’s forum was “The Future is YOU: Educating, Informing and Connecting the Next Generation of Leaders.”
Known as the backbone of the force, the United States Army Noncommissioned Officer was honored with the Association of the U.S. Army’s highest award for selfless service.
Representing all NCOs, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer accepted AUSA’s George Catlett Marshall Medal on Oct. 16, the final day of the association’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition. The Marshall Medal is named for the Army officer and statesman who led the Army, the State Department and Defense Department.
Setting the stage for a fight the Army must win, five of the Army’s most senior enlisted leaders provided in-depth briefings on the future battlefields NCOs need to prepare their soldiers for.
Last year, a small cadre of Army maintenance specialists was dispatched from the service's depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, to perform a complex repair on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter based in South Korea. The work took 13 days, rather than the 220 estimated to ship it back to the U.S. for repairs. The savings: An estimated $2 million.
