ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

The nominee to be the next undersecretary of the Army said that if confirmed, he will focus on “disciplined resource management” and ensure that soldiers “never have to experience a fair fight.”

In testimony May 8 at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider his nomination, retired Col. Mike Obadal said he would commit to focusing on readiness, transformation and the responsible management of resources, “all in order to ensure that our soldiers never have to experience a fair fight.”

Faced with increasingly complex technical, operational and financial challenges, the Army must move faster to transform the force, a senior leader said March 25 at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium and Exposition in Huntsville, Alabama.

“We have to do more to overtake the rate at which our adversaries are transforming,” said David Fitzgerald, the senior official performing the duties of the undersecretary of the Army. “We have to do it better, we have to do it faster, we have to do it together.”

The prevalence of unmanned aerial systems presents a ubiquitous threat that is fundamentally transforming the battlefield, Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo said.

“What we’re seeing, and not just in Ukraine, but really around the world, is that the availability and the impact of small, unmanned aerial systems and the threats that they present on the battlefield is here to stay,” Camarillo said May 17 during a discussion on drone warfare hosted by the Center for a New American Security.

The Army faces “devastating” effects if the $95 billion supplemental spending bill pending before Congress isn’t passed, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said.

Speaking April 3 at a breakfast hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army as part of its Coffee Series, Camarillo explained that since the Oct. 1 start of fiscal year 2024, the Army has been paying for operations including support for NATO missions and deployments that previously had been paid for with supplemental funding.

As warfighting innovations advance, a “quiet revolution” is taking place in the Army that promises to change the way the service does business with industry, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said.

“Our innovation challenges aren’t technical, they really are institutional,” Camarillo said March 26 in his keynote address at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium and Exposition in Huntsville, Alabama.

Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo will speak April 3 at a Coffee Series event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.

The in-person event will take place at AUSA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The event opens at 7 a.m. with registration, coffee and networking. The program is scheduled to begin at 7:45 a.m., which is about 30 minutes later than usual.

It is free for military members, government employees and the media.

An almost flat 2024 Army budget will not prevent considerable progress in critical initiatives like improving recruiting and transforming capabilities, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said April 11.

Speaking at an Association of the U.S. Army Coffee Series event, Camarillo talked about the challenge of introducing the Army as an “enduring employer of choice,” as well as about overdue efforts to improve installations, infrastructure and housing, and expanding warfighting capabilities, an area where much progress is being made.