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 Navy assets. DEFENDER-Europe 21 is led by the Army’s newly consolidated U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command.

The foundation of Army readiness is our people. The Army is moving to a foundational readiness model that prioritizes the training of individuals and small units at the company level and below. The best combat units in the world ensure their individuals and small units are masters of their craft. To foster individual readiness, the Army is also investing in holistic health and fitness. We continue to study the impact of the Army Combat Fitness Test in accordance with Congressional guidance in order to better connect individual fitness with combat readiness. A solid foundation of readiness enables unit agility and provides the greatest return on an investment of limited time and resources. We will continue to use the combat training centers to bring these highly trained, disciplined, and fit teams together for large-scale collective training that validates the combat effectiveness of our battalions and brigades.

The Army must balance the continuous demand for current readiness from combatant command requirements with the imperative to secure future readiness, all without overly stressing our people or our equipment. To this end, the Army developed, tested, and rehearsed a new unit lifecycle model that will go into effect October 2021: the Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model (ReARMM). ReARMM will harmonize historically conflicting Army priorities. It will take care of people by reducing operational tempo and maximizing predictability and stability to commanders, Soldiers, and families. ReARMM will sustain readiness by carving out dedicated windows for building readiness at echelon while aligning units with primary regions and functions. Regional alignment provides units deep wells of knowledge on the terrain, culture, and people where their units are most likely to operate. Joint force commanders also gain by leveraging habitual, trusted relationships between Army formations and Allies and partners. Finally, ReARMM will facilitate modernization by giving units dedicated windows to integrate new equipment, reorganize formations, and train on new doctrine. Adopting this model transitions the Army from small, incremental, evolutionary modernization of platforms to large-step modernization of our formations.

Army Modernization - Transforming for Tomorrow