2025 AUSA GFSE Symposium

SCOPE: The focus of the AUSA GFSE Symposium is on Driving Continuous Transformation. Continuous Transformation is a framework for ensuring the institutional adaptability required for the Army, as described in the Army Warfighting Concept, to dominate on the land and from the land in an era marked by disruptive and rapid technological change and great power competition. To ensure the level of constant innovation needed to deter war and failing that to prevail in war, Continuous Transformation integrates in parallel the cross-DOTMLPFP application of formation-based, institutional decision-making processes across three-time horizons – Transforming in Contact (18-24 months), Deliberate Transformation (2-7 years), and Concept-Driven Transformation (beyond the FYDP).

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the AUSA GFSE Symposium is to bring together a breadth of leaders and experts from the Army, industry partners, and academia to foster an exchange of useful insights and ideas to enable Driving Continuous Transformation. The symposium’s panels, workshops, and keynote addresses are structured around four interdependent topics. The first three topics are these three-time horizons, specifically their respective purpose, processes, and key participants and stakeholders. Of equal importance is the fourth topic, which is about how to establish a holistic, formation-based approach that relates decisions and ties analytical and decision-making processes across these three-time horizons. Driving Continuous Transformation requires mapping out and establishing a deeply integrated transformation decision space, one that more comprehensively identifies and weighs risks, opportunities, costs, and dependencies across the time horizons.