Defense News:

After 10 months without a confirmed commander at Army Futures Command, Gen. James Rainey took over in an Oct. 4 ceremony at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library here in front of a crowd comprising nearly all Army leaders involved in creating the now four-year-old outfit.

Rainey’s last job was on the Army staff as the head of the G-3/5/7 directorates, leading the service’s transformation at the Pentagon. He previously led the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

In a speech, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth praised Rainey as “the right leader to build on the excellent work of generals Mike Murray and Jim Richardson, and take AFC into this next phase of delivering the Army of 2030 – as well as looking ahead to what we will need in 2040.”

Wormuth touted Rainey’s achievements in prominent Army planning processes, including his involvement in the Army Campaign Plan, the Total Army Analysis, the global force management mechanism, supporting operations at the Southwest Border and responding to presidential drawdowns for Ukraine.

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