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1: CHANGE OF COMMAND AT CCDC Maj. Gen. John A. George (right, in bottom photo) assumed lead- ership of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) from Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, center, during a change of command ceremony Nov. 1 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Gen. John M. Murray, commanding general of the U.S. Army Fu- tures Command (AFC), presided over the ceremony, in which George moved from deputy director and chief of staff of AFC’s Futures and Con- cepts Center. Assisting in the ceremony was CCDC Command Sgt. Maj. Jon R. Stanley, left. (U.S. Army photo)
George is CCDC’s second commander, following the organization’s Feb- ruary 2019 transition from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to AFC. His 31-year career includes command and staff positions with the United States Military Academy at West Point; NATO Joint Command Southeast, Turkey; Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington; U.S. European Command, Stutt- gart, Germany; and Force Development Directorate, G-8, Department of the Army. George, a West Point graduate, holds an M.S. in social psychology from Penn State University and an M.S. in national resource strategy from National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Wins retired Nov. 6 at a ceremony led by Gen. Gustave F. Perna (right, top photo), commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Com- mand (AMC). Wins assumed command of RDECOM in August 2016 when it was an AMC subordinate command. He led the organization through business reforms, reprioritization of science and technology portfolios, and the transition to CCDC.
Before his assignment as RDECOM commander, he served as director of force development in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8. His 34-year career included leadership and staff assignments at Headquar-
ters, Department of the Army and the Joint Staff, Washington; Strategic Planning, J-8, U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida; and the Requirements Integration Directorate, Army Ca- pabilities Integration Center, Joint Base Langley – Eustis, Virginia. (Pho- to by Conrad Johnson, CCDC)
2: ARMY RESEARCH LAB GETS NEW DIRECTOR The Department of the Army named Dr. Patrick J. Baker director of the CCDC’s Army Research Laboratory (ARL), effective Dec. 8.
Baker, the lab’s seventh director, replaces Dr. Philip Perconti, who recently left the laboratory to replace Dr. Thomas P. Russell as dep- uty assistant secretary of the Army for research and technology and the Army’s chief scientist.
ARL, which has more than 2,000 military and civilian employees, is re- sponsible for basic and applied research to support the ground fighting force of the future. A member of the Senior Executive Service since May 2012, Baker most recently served as director of the laboratory’s Surviv- ability Lethality Analysis Directorate before overseeing its transition to a new organization, the CCDC Data and Analysis Center.
Baker spent much of his early research career at ARL. A product of Army educational outreach, he started as an engineering trainee from Drexel University in July 1984 at one of the lab’s forerunners, the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory. He left the lab to pursue graduate studies under Army Research Office funding at Vanderbilt University in 1989. After a stint at the University of Dayton Research Institute, he returned to the Army laboratory system in 1995.
Baker then rose from Army-unique bench research in energetic materi- als though the leadership ranks, serving in multiple broadening and de- velopmental assignments on Army, joint and international panels as well
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