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2018-07-14 Government

Why the Army picked Austin, TX for Futures Command

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Proximity to the Pentagon is a huge negative.

Sad they can't even begin to process that and immediately see it as a negative.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-14 05:10|| 2018-07-14 05:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, great, Texas' own Swamp(tm).

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-14 07:00|| 2018-07-14 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Austin is already a swamp P2K.

Posted by Vinegar Sproing3298 2018-07-14 07:42|| 2018-07-14 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 That was my point. Sorry for being obtuse.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-14 08:27|| 2018-07-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I should have realized.

Posted by Vinegar Sproing3298 2018-07-14 10:43|| 2018-07-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Why? To disperse their command and control capabilities when the inevitable national breakup begins...

Posted by ed in texas 2018-07-14 11:15|| 2018-07-14 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Enemies' fear of collateral damage to Austin?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-07-14 11:35|| 2018-07-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Why? To disperse their command and control capabilities when the inevitable national breakup begins...Posted by ed in texas

Or to have a major command 'on hand' in case the proud citizens of Texas decide to transition Austin into a Richmond.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-14 11:43|| 2018-07-14 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...
Word salad. Gobbledygook. Maybe, just maybe, if we went back to simple Anglo-Saxon words and phrases we might have a weapon programs that deliver 'On Time and Under Budget'.
I can Dream, right? Right?!?

Posted by magpie 2018-07-14 12:21|| 2018-07-14 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 You dreamer you!

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-07-14 12:30|| 2018-07-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#11 The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...

I can just see that on a PPT, nearly hear it being read aloud from a podium. My skin is beginning to crawl.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-14 12:48|| 2018-07-14 12:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Optimal Synergy of Compatible High Tech, Communications, Stealthyness, and Sustainability™

Posted by Frank G 2018-07-14 13:11|| 2018-07-14 13:11|| Front Page Top

#13 The plan is to realign the Army’s modernization priorities under a new organization that will implement cross-functional teams that correspond with the service’s top six modernization efforts...

Anyone who has worked for a large dying corporation has heard those words. The sign of the end times is when the organization decides to re-brand itself with a new logo and mission statement.

Personally, I recommend they leverage their synergies. And switch to a matrix organization where everyone has at least 3 bosses.

Posted by SteveS 2018-07-14 13:16|| 2018-07-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Draw a circle of 2500 mile radius with Austin at it's center. What does the AOI look like to you?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-14 13:17|| 2018-07-14 13:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Rename

Reorganize

Prepare 3 envelopes

My professional experience with the military was involved with a major IS implementation. The various services couldn't agree on what day it was no less what they wanted to accomplish. The biggest fuster-cluck I've ever seen.

Posted by AlanC 2018-07-14 14:57|| 2018-07-14 14:57|| Front Page Top

#16 They really like that Franklin BBQ?

Posted by charger 2018-07-14 15:26|| 2018-07-14 15:26|| Front Page Top

#17 stood up

An organizational nexus
Of pure, forward-looking erectness!
More loyal correctness
(poor big oil, and Texas!):
Mean, lean, preening, green solar plexus!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-14 17:31|| 2018-07-14 17:31|| Front Page Top

#18 circle of 2500 mile radius

The Western Drugosphere, minus the cokey bits?

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-14 17:42|| 2018-07-14 17:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Austin beat out a short list of Boston, Massachusetts; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Philadelphia

Austin would beat out the others in that short list.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-14 18:36|| 2018-07-14 18:36|| Front Page Top

#20 No Zen, I was thinking to establish future focus on a new sphere of influence for US land forces.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-14 22:20|| 2018-07-14 22:20|| Front Page Top

#21 A sphere of influence in a 2500 mile radius circle? That’s some geometry you’ve got there, Skidmark dear. ;-)

/pedantry

Posted by trailing wife 2018-07-14 22:28|| 2018-07-14 22:28|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ Heh. Skidmark, your questions usually leave me thinking bigger than I otherwise might, even if I'm not quite sure what your after, and I hate seeing them go unanswered. Hmm. Think I said that about Pappy at some point. With you this time, though (if distracted by the circle): Reaching out to the moat and beyond? Vacuum-filling and tidying up? Mucho jointness with relatively solid citizens further south? Clueless about signif. of 2500 miles (specific transport, PGS?), but I'll figure it out. Thanks for the prod, and for humoring me.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-14 23:45|| 2018-07-14 23:45|| Front Page Top

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