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U.S. Army Announces Headquarters Restructuring

June 6, 2006

The Army is reorganizing its commands and specified headquarters to accelerate the momentum of ongoing transformation efforts and increase the Army’s responsiveness globally and at home.

In an additional step toward modularity, the new structure identifies three types of headquarters: Army Commands, Army Service Component Commands and Direct Reporting Units.

The three Army Commands are: U.S. Army Forces Command (designated by the Secretary of the Army as both an Army Command under the direction of Headquarters Department of the Army and the Army Service Component Command to U.S. Joint Forces Command), U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and U.S. Army Materiel Command.

The nine Army Service Component Commands are: U.S. Army Europe, U.S. Army Central, U.S. Army North, U.S. Army South, U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Strategic Command and Eighth U.S. Army.

The 11 Direct Reporting Units are: US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Signal Command (Army) (NETCOM/9th SC(A)), U.S. Army Medical Command, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Military District of Washington, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Army Reserve Command, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Command and U.S. Army Installation Management Agency.

The term MACOM no longer properly defines current and future Army commands. It has been replaced by three Army commands performing multiple Army service Title 10 functions across multiple disciplines; nine army service component commands -- an Army force, comprised primarily of operational organizations serving as the Army component for a combatant commander. Lastly, there will be eleven Direct Reporting Units – Army organizations comprised of one or more units with institutional or operating functions, providing broad general support to the Army in a normally single, unique discipline not otherwise available elsewhere in the Army.

The restructuring accomplishes four objectives: (1) recognizes the global role and multi-disciplined functions of the Army Commands; (2) establishes the Army Service Component Commands as reporting directly to the Department while serving as the Army’s single point of contact for a combatant command; (3) acknowledges Direct Reporting Units as functional proponents at the Department of the Army level and; (4) enables the Army to set the foundation for gaining better effectiveness and efficiencies by transforming its business processes while operationally focusing the theater Armies to combatant commands.

Lineage and heraldic honors are preserved in command names and their insignia. The recognition of history is also evident in today’s release on D-Day, the 1944 European invasion during the last era of Army significant headquarters reorganization.

For more information contact: Army Public Affairs, Lt. Col. Carl Ey, (703) 614-2487, Carl.ey@hqda.army.mil or go to www.army.mil/modularforces.