US Army aims to complete multidomain task force structure by FY28

The U.S. Army plans to complete its multidomain task force structure by fiscal 2028, according to an internal service document obtained by Defense News.

While marked “predecisional,” which means decisions and plans described may change, the document lays out the service’s recent Total Army Analysis and its proposed force structure plans across the board.

The service’s first MDTF was experimental , but since then the Army has operationalized its first MDTF unit and will ultimately build four more. The Army established that initial one at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state around 2018. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command theater exercises with MDTF participation helped inform the Army’s Multi-Domain Operations warfighting concept, which has now evolved into doctrine .

The Army then established another MDTF in Europe in 2021 , and another in Hawaii in 2022. The units are designed to operate across all domains — land, air, sea, space and cyberspace — and are equipped with the Army’s growing capabilities, including long-range precision fires.

According to the Army’s document, the service will consolidate Mid-Range Capability and Long-Range Hypersonic batteries under a Long-Range Fires Battalion (LRFB) headquarters and complete programming of the remaining Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) battalions over the next five years. The Army also plans to convert all brigade support companies to battalion design and complete stationing decisions for all MDTF formations in that same timeframe.

The first MDTF at JBLM, according to the document, will be fully established this fiscal year with a Multidomain Effects Battalion (MDEB), an IFPC Battalion, a Brigade Support Battalion and Long-Range Fires Battalion.

The most important part of the MDTFs are the Multidomain Effects Battalions that serve as the targeting brain, bringing together all source intelligence across domains and spectrums to share information with the joint force to enable targeting, U.S. Army Pacific Command’s commander Gen. Charles Flynn told Defense News in an interview last fall.

The second MDTF will be headquartered in Germany with an MDEB and also partially stationed at Fort Drum, New York, with an IFPC Battalion, a BSB and an LRFB, the document lays out. The MDTF will be fully established in FY25 with the addition of the LRFB in FY26. That MDTF will focus on supporting the European theater.

The third MDTF, headquartered in Hawaii with an MDEB, will also have a portion stationed at JBLM – an IFPC battalion, a BSB and an LRFB – by FY26.

Stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, but focused on the Pacific theater, the fourth MDTF will be established in full by FY27.

And the 5th MDTF will be stationed at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, where it will concentrate on regions as determined. The last MDTF will be fully operational by FY28.

Putting an MDTF at Fort Liberty, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said during an April 18 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, “is critically important” because it will bring lethal and non-lethal targeting along with other capabilities like long-rage fires and indirect fire protection to support the joint force and the rapid response capabilities resident in the 18th Airborne Corps and the 82nd Airborne Division.

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据《防务新闻》获得的一份内部文件显示，美国陆军计划在 2028 财年之前完成其多域特遣部队结构。

虽然该文件被标记为“决策前”，这意味着所描述的决策和计划可能会发生变化，但它概述了该军种最近的全军分析及其提出的全面部队结构计划。

陆军的首个多域特遣部队（MDTF）最初是试验性质的，但此后陆军已将其首个MDTF单位投入作战使用，并最终计划再组建四个。陆军于2018年左右在华盛顿州的刘易斯-麦科德联合基地建立了最初的MDTF单位。美国印太司令部与MDTF共同开展的战区演习，为陆军的多域作战概念提供了理论基础，该概念现已发展成为作战条令。

随后，陆军于 2021 年在欧洲建立了另一个多域特遣部队，并于 2022 年在夏威夷建立了另一个。这些部队旨在跨所有领域（陆地、空中、海上、太空和网络空间）作战，并配备了陆军不断增长的能力，包括远程精确火力。

根据陆军文件，该军种将在未来五年内把中程火力支援营和远程高超音速炮连整合到一个远程火力营（LRFB）司令部下属，并完成剩余间接火力防护营（IFPC）的编制规划。陆军还计划在同一时期内将所有旅级支援连改编为营级编制，并完成所有多国特遣部队（MDTF）的驻地部署决定。

根据该文件，JBLM 的第一个 MDTF 将在本财政年度全面成立，包括一个多域效应营 (MDEB)、一个 IFPC 营、一个旅支援营和一个远程火力营。

美国太平洋陆军司令查尔斯·弗林将军去年秋天在接受《防务新闻》采访时表示，多域特遣部队最重要的部分是多域效应营，它们充当目标定位的大脑，汇集跨领域和跨频谱的所有来源情报，与联合部队共享信息以实现目标定位。

文件显示，第二支多学科特遣部队（MDTF）总部将设在德国，下辖一支多学科作战旅（MDEB），部分兵力也将驻扎在纽约州德拉姆堡，包括一支步兵师营（IFPC）、一支后勤支援营（BSB）和一支远程后勤支援营（LRFB）。该特遣部队将于2025财年全面组建，远程后勤支援营将于2026财年加入。该特遣部队将专注于支援欧洲战区。

第三支多学科特遣部队（MDTF）总部设在夏威夷，并设有一支多学科工程旅（MDEB），到 2026 财年，该部队的一部分也将驻扎在刘易斯-麦科德联合基地（JBLM），包括一个步兵营、一个后勤支援营（BSB）和一个远程后勤支援营（LRFB）。

第四个多部门联合特遣部队驻扎在科罗拉多州卡森堡，但主要负责太平洋战区，将于 2027 财年全面成立。

第5多学科特遣部队将驻扎在北卡罗来纳州自由堡，并根据确定的区域集中作战。最后一个多学科特遣部队将于2028财年全面投入运作。

陆军参谋长兰迪·乔治将军在 4 月 18 日参议院军事委员会的听证会上表示，在自由堡设立多国部队“至关重要”，因为它将带来致命和非致命目标打击能力，以及远程火力打击和间接火力保护等其他能力，以支持驻扎在第 18 空降军和第 82 空降师的联合部队和快速反应能力。

珍·贾德森是一位屡获殊荣的记者，为《防务新闻》报道陆地战争。她也曾为《政治报》和《内幕防务》工作。她拥有波士顿大学新闻学硕士学位和凯尼恩学院文学学士学位。