Training and Doctrine Command is leading the entire Army in an effort to build a 21st Century fighting force in a program appropriately named Joint Venture. Another is redesign of the processes and policies of the institutional Army at major command headquarters, including Headquarters, Department of the Army, according to Klevecz. The third axis is the integration of information technologies, overseen by a task force from the Army Digitization Office. Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, former Army chief of staff, coined the term Joint Venture.
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Experimentation is the tool with which the future Army will be built, he said. Each experiment leads to the next, with results fed into subsequent experiments. The series will culminate with corps-level trials. Those experiments will be done with constructive and virtual simulations. It would be prohibitively expensive to field several thousands of soldiers for corps AWEs.