THE FUTURE OF THE ARMY

National Commission on the Future of the Army staff photo
“The Commission shall undertake a comprehensive study of the structure of the Army, and policy
assumptions related to the size and force mixture of the Army…”
2015 NDAA, Section 1703(a)(1)
THE COMMISSION’S MISSION
AND METHOD
Congress established the National Commission on the
Future of the Army (NCFA) in the Carl Levin and
Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA FY15) (Public Law 113-
291). The Congress was prompted to form the NCFA, in
large part, over two major concerns. The first was how the
Army should best organize and employ the Total Force in
a time of declining resources. The second was whether the
Army should proceed with the transfer of AH-64 Apache
aircraft from the reserve components to the Regular Army, as
directed by the Army’s Aviation Restructure Initiative.
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