The Army activated its fourth Multi-Domain Task Force this week, marking another step in the wider restructuring of the force. The new 4th Multi-Domain Task Force was stood up during an Oct. 8 ceremony at Fort Carson, Colorado.

The formation comprises 2,100 soldiers responsible for coordinating cyber warfare, long range missiles and other capabilities in support of the wider Army. Although based at Fort Carson, the task force will concentrate on operations in the Pacific theater.

That Pacific emphasis matches the focus of some of the Army’s other Multi-Domain Task Forces. The Army said the new unit will bring together soldiers and capabilities intended to support operations across several areas of modern warfare.

Col. Hugh W. A. Jones, the unit’s commander, addressed both deterrence and combat readiness during the activation ceremony. “While we build this formation to deter aggression and preserve peace, if war comes, we must be prepared to fight and win,” Jones said.

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Jones also emphasized the responsibility to give troops an advantage against an enemy. “We owe those in harm’s way every advantage we can give them, while leaving our enemy nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.”

The Fort Carson formation is expected to be organized into four battalions, each responsible for a different part of the task force’s mission. Those units will cover long range fires, cyber warfare and signal intelligence, air defense and sustainment.

The long range fires battalion will be armed with High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and hypersonic missiles. Those weapons will provide the fires component identified in the Army’s planned structure for the task force.

Another battalion will focus on cyber warfare and signal intelligence. An air defense battalion and a sustainment battalion will complete the four battalion organization expected for the 4th Multi-Domain Task Force.

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The Army began establishing Multi-Domain Task Forces in 2017, initially using the concept as a pilot. The goal was to place cyber and electronic warfare capabilities alongside long range precision missiles and targeting abilities spanning land, air, space and sea.

Under the concept, those capabilities would be organized to disrupt the targeting and surveillance abilities of near peer or peer level adversaries. The approach gathered capabilities involving multiple domains within formations built around coordinating those different tactical tools.

In the decade since the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force was established, the Army has continued developing the formations. That work has included efforts to better integrate drones and other uncrewed systems into the task force structure.

The Army took another step in July by merging the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force with the 7th Infantry Division. The merger created what the Army described as a first of its kind formation serving in the Pacific.

The resulting Pacific command is intended to operate as a “covering force” in the theater. It adds long range artillery and electromagnetic warfare capabilities that can support the infantry component of the formation.

The newly activated 4th Multi-Domain Task Force will report to that Pacific command. The Army describes the higher command as its “multi-domain operational headquarters,” placing the Fort Carson formation beneath the structure created through the July merger.

The arrangement connects the new task force’s Pacific focus with an existing command that combines infantry, artillery and electromagnetic warfare capabilities. Its four planned battalions will provide the fires, cyber, signal intelligence, air defense and sustainment functions specified by the Army.

The Army’s expansion of the task force concept is not expected to end with the Fort Carson activation. Current plans call for establishing a fifth Multi-Domain Task Force by 2028, adding another formation to the structure first launched as a pilot in 2017.

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