Gen. James McConville, US Army, the US Army chief of staff, discusses his drive for a new talent management system, integrating recruitment across the Army’s three personnel systems — active, Reserve and National Guard — the groundbreaking shift toward more direct accessions of officers and noncommissioned officers to bolster vital skills gaps, improving cyber, 5G, electromagnetic spectrum and AI understanding across the force, and recruiting the future force with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 annual meeting in Washington, DC. Our AUSA coverage is sponsored by GM Defense, Bell, L3Harris and Leonardo DRS.