The Army wants to put $1B into Transformation in Contact 2.0

Published on March 27, 2025

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Army is doubling down on its Transformation in Contact modernization model, the service’s top operations officer said Tuesday—adding more units into the program and multiplying the number of systems they’ll test as well as the funding to make it all happen.

The service plans to spend $1 billion on the effort between now and the end of fiscal year 2027, Lt. Gen. Joe Ryan told an audience at AUSA’s Global Force Symposium. That’s a huge jump from the $15 million the Army spent on the first three TiC brigades in 2024.

“We're in the process of turning the ship around to do things differently: process, materiel acquisition, organizational development, organizational change,” he said.

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