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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

#R-03-004 January 30, 2003

ARMY ANNOUNCES PLAN TO TRANSFORM MAJOR COMMANDS AND FIELD OPERATING AGENCIES

Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White announced today decisions from a review of Army Realignment Phase 2 -- Field Operating Agencies (FOA) and Phase 3 -- Major Commands (MACOM) initiatives. These initiatives are designed to streamline decision-making processes and achieve efficiencies as the Army adapts to meet rapidly changing institutional and operational challenges.

MACOM and FOA realignments are a continuation of the Secretary's initiative started in June 2001 with the Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) to assess all Army headquarters and supporting activities and properly align responsibility and authority and eliminate redundancy within and between commands and agencies. The realignment initiatives complement the Chief of Staff's vision for transforming the operational forces. The majority of the FOA realignment decisions and MACOM realignments proposals will begin in fiscal year 2004.

Field Operating Agencies. The FOAs are organizations that execute policy on behalf of Department of the Army agencies. Decisions about the following DA agencies have been made:

• Office of the Inspector General (TIG). The TIG will integrate 10 Reserve component soldiers into the organization and consolidate its Information Technology activity with the HQDA Directorate of Information Management.
• The Judge Advocate General (TJAG). The US Army Legal Service Agency will eliminate one function and 22 spaces, while the TJAG School will eliminate seven spaces.
• Army Contracting Agency (ACA). One hundred spaces were eliminated in the consolidation and further reductions are proposed over the next three years.
• Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM). This command has been eliminated and its acquisition functions transferred to the Army Acquisition Executive as a Program Executive Office (PEO). Research and development activities were retained in Army Materiel Command (AMC).
• Logistics Integration Agency (LIA). Consolidation of this agency will eliminate 25 spaces and provide more integrated support to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4.
• Army Physical Fitness Research Institute (APFRI). APFRI has been transferred to the control of The Surgeon General from the Army War College, and the spaces will move to the Medical Command on October 1, 2003.
• Army War College (AWC). The Peacekeeping Institute is disestablished and its missions and functions transferred to Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Further, 26 other AWC spaces are eliminated, and the College is transferred to TRADOC.
• Center for Military History (CMH). Thirteen spaces are transferred to Fort Belvoir to begin establishment of the National Museum of the US Army.
• Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). The command will assess the potential for consolidation and co-location of headquarters and report recommendations in the spring of this year.
• Army National Guard Readiness Center. The Center will reduce 164 spaces.

A study of Human Resources agencies, activities and missions has been completed. Results are expected within 60 to 90 days. The Army will announce decisions after the findings and recommendations have been briefed and approved.

Major Commands. Preliminary decisions about realignment of MACOM headquarters have been made. Over the next few months MACOMs will develop implementation plans that address the organizational and other challenges involved. Changes would affect the following commands:

• U. S. Army Europe (USAREUR)
• U. S. Army Pacific (USARPAC)
• Eighth Army (EUSA)
• U. S. Army South (USARSO).
• U. S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM)
• U. S. Army Materiel Command (AMC)
• U. S. Army Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC)

The major commands listed below will become Direct Reporting Units to the designated Headquarters staff principal as follows:

• U. S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) to The Surgeon General.
• U. S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2.
• U. S. Army Military District of Washington (MDW) to the Chief of Staff, Army.
• U. S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CIDC) to the Provost Marshal General, a new position on the HQDA staff.
• U. S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) to the CIO/G-6.

The following commands remain unchanged:

• U. S. Special Operations Command (USASOC)
• U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
• U. S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
• U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC)

The realignments announced today more clearly define responsibility and authority within functional areas; realign fragmented organizations; eliminate duplication of effort; incorporate, where appropriate, better business practices and organizational concepts; and optimize the use of technology. The realignments are designed to improve the control of resources and thereby provide tangible benefit to Army commands, installations and soldiers and their families.

Today's announcement is the result of continuing efforts by the Headquarters, Department of the Army Realignment Task Force that Secretary White established on 25 June 2001. The Phase 2 and 3 task forces were established on January 8, 2002, immediately following the announcement of the final Phase 1 decisions. The two task forces, consisting of about 30 senior civilians and military members of HQDA, looked at all aspects of Army agencies and MACOMs to include: acquisition, headquarters management, logistics, operations, training, intelligence, requirements development, resource management, external affairs, and civil works.

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For more information, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 697- 8719/2564/7590.