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The Brigade Modernization Command (BMC) is the new name for the Future Force Integration Directorate (FFID), under The U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC). The change reflects the Army’s commitment to its Incremental Brigade Modernization strategy and its effort to make BMC and the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division the centerpiece of integrated network evaluations at Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range. BMC conducts the integration and evaluations of the Army's network, capability packages and other capabilities to provide Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel and Facilities recommendations to the Army. BMC gets capability solutions into the hands of soldiers faster than traditional channels by utilizing support from combat, training, and material developers and engineers early on in the development lifecycle. ==History== The Brigade Modernization Command was initially founded as the Future Force Integration Directorate at Fort Bliss, Texas, based on an Army Chief of Staff directive to Training and Doctrine Command, dated December 20, 2005 to establish an on-site integration organization to facilitate development, testing and evaluation of the Future Combat Systems. FFID was organized as a directorate of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, a subordinate unit of TRADOC. The organization's initial mission was to synchronize delivery, preparation and evaluation of all FCS-related products, which included complementary systems; development of doctrine, organization and training and leadership products which were synchronized with the FCS program manager, materiel developments and to exercise direct authority over the Army Evaluation Task Force, a unit of Soldiers that would test and evaluate the equipment. The first FFID operations began at Fort Bliss on June 15, 2006. In December 2006, FFID was officially designated to exercise direct authority over the AETF. The AETF was officially activated on December 16, 2006 as the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, AETF. In March 2007, ARCIC approved additional personnel for a general officer staff organization, which replicated a division headquarters. Brig. Gen. James L. Terry, FFID's first director, was welcomed in a formal ceremony on April 6, 2007. The establishment phase was scheduled to continue through June 2007. In August 2007, the FFID mission was modified to integrate modernization efforts in support of Army transformation in order to provide FCS-enabled modular brigades beginning Fiscal Year 2011 and an FCS Brigade Combat Team at full operational capability in 2017 to joint force commanders. On October 1, 2007, FFID attained initial operational capability and assumed responsibility of FCS from the Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Laboratory based at Fort Knox, Ky. During its short history, the organization conducted numerous training and testing events, as well as demonstrations of FCS capabilities for visits by senior Department of Defense and Army leadership, congressional leaders and staffers, business executives and national and local news media representatives. Distinguished visitors included the Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff of the Army, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and other notable politicians and congressional staff delegations. In April 2009, after the Secretary of Defense terminated the FCS program, FFID assumed responsibility for integrating BCT modernization for the Army. This included accelerated delivery of promising capabilities to the operating force. These "Spin Out" systems were bundled into "capability packages", which would be evaluated and delivered incrementally in two year periods. In late 2010, the Army Vice Chief of Staff directed that FFID, along with Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range, become the Army's center for network integration. Since this would require a full Brigade Combat Team to load and test the network the Chief of Staff of the Army directed that the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division take over the AETF mission from the 5th Brigade which would be deactivated in March 2011. On February 7, 2011, the CSA directed that FFID be re-designated the Brigade Modernization Command with a mission to conduct physical integration and evaluations of the Army's network, capability packages and other capabilities in order to provide doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, education, personnel and facility recommendations to the Army. Today, BMC is focused on integrating test and evaluation events, including the Integrated Network Baseline Evaluation. The 2/1 AD conducts training and certification events to ensure individual and unit-level proficiency. While the network is central to Army brigade modernization efforts, 2/1 AD soldiers provide critical feedback that allows the U.S. Army to make decisions on which capabilities to acquire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brigade Modernization Command」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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