Congress would like the Army to show its work on ‘transformation’

Army senior leaders took scores of questions from both houses of Congress this week, part of a yearly ritual to justify the service’s budget request. But they didn’t have a lot of answers on the service’s recently announced transformation initiative , which aims to shed unwanted programs, field new tech and cut uniformed and civilian positions.

The service hasn’t provided detailed plans on how it would execute the Army Transformation Initiative, nor has the Pentagon released its fiscal year 2027 budget. So despite hours of hearings, few specifics emerged.

“When I say that we share your goal of developing a more modern, agile, and well-equipped Army, and the broad structure of the ATI sounds encouraging—rapidly delivering modern warfare capabilities, organizing force structure and elimi