# Army Futures Command **Entity class:** United States Army command **Aliases:** AFC **Headquarters:** Austin, Texas **Maturity:** Transforming ## Definition **Army Futures Command** was established in 2018 to integrate Army modernization, concepts, experimentation, requirements, and capability development. In 2025 the Army announced its integration with Training and Doctrine Command into the Army Transformation and Training Command. ## Relationships - **successor structure:** [[wiki/Army Transformation and Training Command|Army Transformation and Training Command]]. - **Austin ecosystem:** [[wiki/Army Software Factory|Army Software Factory]], [[wiki/Capital Factory|Capital Factory]], and [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]]. - **military intelligence context:** [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|United States Army Intelligence]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Army — Army Transformation and Training Command announcement, 2025](https://www.army.mil/) - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]] ## Austin defense-technology role Army command established in Austin in 2018 to connect future-force work with the commercial technology economy. The article records its 2025 merger into T2COM and preserves the historical institutional identity. Innovation offices connect commercial builders with military requirements and suitable acquisition mechanisms. Soldier software development contributes an additional route for operational experience to become a product. T2COM brings force design, development, generation, training, and doctrine into a combined command structure. These institutions perform different functions within a common regional capability environment. ### Regional relationships - **2025 merger successor:** [[wiki/Transformation and Training Command|Transformation and Training Command]]. - **software-development unit:** [[wiki/Army Software Factory|Army Software Factory]]. - **regional master router:** [[wiki/Austin Defense Technology|Austin Defense Technology]]. - **source article:** [[articles/How Austin Became a Different Kind of Defense Tech Epicenter|How Austin Became a Different Kind of Defense Tech Epicenter]]. - **civilian supplier and participation economy:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **intelligence architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ### Austin sources - [[articles/How Austin Became a Different Kind of Defense Tech Epicenter#The Second Placement: The Pentagon Moves Its Front Door|Austin defense-tech article — The Second Placement: The Pentagon Moves Its Front Door]] — October 2026 revision; source for this entry’s regional role. - [FedScoop, The Army's Software Factory in Austin](https://fedscoop.com/army-software-factory-austin/) - [Association of the United States Army, Army Stands Up Transformation and Training Command](https://www.ausa.org/news/army-stands-transformation-and-training-command) ## Connected Austin capabilities [[wiki/Training and Doctrine Command|Training and Doctrine Command]]. These entries identify associated implementations, people, methods, and institutional contexts in [[articles/How Austin Became a Different Kind of Defense Tech Epicenter|How Austin Became a Different Kind of Defense Tech Epicenter]]. [[wiki/Austin Defense Technology|Austin Defense Technology]] supplies their regional arrangement; [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] supplies the wider supplier and participation economy.