Army converts Futures and Concepts Command to Futures and Autonomy Command

Soldiers demonstrate autonomous Palletized Load System vehicles at Fort Hood, Texas, Sept. 24, 2026. U.S. Army / 1st Lt. Tyler Williams

Officials released more details about its component organization under the Defense Department’s new Autonomous Warfare Command.

When Lt. Gen. Mac McCurry woke up Tuesday morning, he was the commander of the Army’s Futures and Concepts Command. By the afternoon, the service had announced that his outfit will become the recently announced Futures and Autonomy Command .

FASCOM will be the Army’s component organization within the Defense Department’s planned Autonomous Warfare Command , it announced Oct. 1.

“You know, we did decide to keep the patch , because that's honestly one of the hardest things to do,” McCurry said of his command’s uniform insignia, at the AUSA annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “If we can get the patch, we can get autonomy. I haven't ruled out Optimus Prime 6 as my future callsign.”

FASCOM’s commander will also become the Army’s first Portfolio Acquisition Executive for autonomy, with authority over the full procurement effort for autonomous systems.

“We are incorporating autonomous and unmanned systems at every single echelon, across the formation, with the force structure to match, including introducing UAS and robotics military specialties to integrate these technologies at the point of need,” Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the acting Army chief of staff, said Tuesday during a speech at the AUSA annual meeting.

FASCOM will function much the way Army Cyber Command and Army Special Operations Command support U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Special Operations Command, with an Army mission and force structure that also reports to the joint combatant command.

The point of the larger autonomy project is not to start fully automating existing warfighting functions, said Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer.

Autonomous systems will compile information and help commanders make decision, but there will be “appropriate levels of human judgment” before weapons are fired.

“Things like counter-battery fire, things like air and missile defense, things that happen at a superhuman speed and scale—want to have humans on the loop for decisions, but then we cannot be limited by you know the 20 watts that have up here,” Miller said, pointing to his head. “If we are taking thousands of drones or hundreds of rounds, we can't put that on a human. We want to enable them to be a crew chief for superintelligence and autonomy.”

The service secretaries and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are slated to discuss more details about AUTOWARCOM on Wednesday during a panel at the final morning of AUSA’s annual meeting.

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官员们公布了国防部新成立的自主作战司令部下属机构的更多细节。

周二早上，麦克·麦克库里中将醒来时，他还是陆军未来与概念司令部的司令。到了下午，军方就宣布，他所在的部队将更名为新近成立的未来与自主司令部。

美国陆军部队司令部 (FASCOM) 将于 10 月 1 日宣布，成为国防部计划成立的自主作战司令部 (Autonomous Warfare Command) 的陆军组成机构。

“你知道，我们最终决定保留臂章，因为说实话，这是最难做到的事情之一，”麦克库里在华盛顿特区举行的美国陆军协会年会上谈到他所在部队的制服徽章时说道，“如果我们能拿到臂章，我们就能获得自主权。我还没排除把‘擎天柱6号’作为我未来呼号的可能性。”

FASCOM 的指挥官还将成为陆军首位自主系统采购组合执行官，拥有自主系统全面采购工作的权力。

“我们正在各个层级、整个部队中整合自主和无人系统，并配备相应的部队结构，包括引入无人机系统和机器人军事专业，以便在需要的地方整合这些技术，”陆军代理参谋长克里斯托弗·拉内夫将军周二在美国陆军协会年会上发表讲话时说。

FASCOM 的运作方式与陆军网络司令部和陆军特种作战司令部支持美国网络司令部和美国特种作战司令部的方式大致相同，其任务和部队结构也向联合作战司令部报告。

陆军首席技术官亚历克斯·米勒表示，这项更大规模的自主化项目的目的并非是要完全自动化现有的作战功能。

自主系统将收集信息并帮助指挥官做出决策，但在武器发射之前，仍会有“适当程度的人类判断”。

“像反炮兵火力、防空和导弹防御这类以超乎常人的速度和规模发生的事件——我们希望有人参与决策，但我们不能受限于我们头顶那区区20瓦的功率，”米勒指着自己的脑袋说道。“如果我们要操控成千上万架无人机或数百发炮弹，就不能把这些都交给一个人。我们希望他们能够成为超级智能和自主系统的指挥官。”

各军种部长和国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯计划于周三在AUSA年会最后一个上午的小组讨论会上，就AUTOWARCOM的更多细节进行讨论。

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