Fort Huachuca, Arizona — Maj. Gen. Anthony R. Hale, Commander, U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence and Fort Huachuca, with leadership from Fort Huachuca, Sierra Vista City and Cochise County, held an offsite team building to Shared Installation Vision, January 19-20.

The event, held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, will help Fort Huachuca meet the demands of the Army and Department of Defense in 2023 and 2030, and to identify the relationships, resources, and interdependencies for success and sustainability. It helped set the course for preparation. growth.

Since Fort Huachuca has not produced a strategic plan since 2015, the USAICoE leveraged an external objective facilitator to facilitate the two-day event, allowing participants to explore traditional Army, joint, and interagency planning models. helped encourage bold, creative thinking and innovation, away from , and open a dialog.

“Thank you for taking the time to be here. This is important not only for Fort Huachuca, but for the city of Sierra Vista,” Hale said. “It’s important not only to Fort He Huachuca and the City of Sierra Vista, but also to Cochise County, and it’s important to the state of Arizona, the Department of Defense, and the War Department.”

Participants will participate in multiple icebreaker events throughout the first day, identifying key objectives and tasks aimed at improving the facility and surrounding areas, interim efforts to nest those objectives, and an ideal 2030 A common vision towards

“I know everyone has a different mission, we have different abilities, we have different powers, we have different approvals. Sometimes it’s different, and that’s okay,” says Hale. “Next he wants to focus on what he can achieve in the end result, in a day and a half, leveraging each other’s talents to make Fort Huachuca the best facility in the Army.”

On the final day of the event, participants met again to briefly discuss what they considered to be the most important objectives and tasks.

Pete Don, Senior Level Senior Technical Advisor, USAICoE Defense Intelligence, Deputy Commander, said the two-day offsite encouraged participants to think boldly and broadly beyond organizational bias, orthodoxy, and culture. said.

“The value and results of this comprehensive and collaborative event center on the forward-looking crosstalk of Fort Huachuca and everyone’s experience and expertise,” Dong said. “Our ability to exchange ideas in real time and creative thinking has created the ability for collective teams to develop shared goals and outcomes.”

Through this joint effort, a 42-page action report was produced, which was combined with a similar meeting in November to produce a cohesive strategic plan. Plans are set to be released in April 2023.

More photos can be found on Fort Huachuca’s Flickr page.