TRADOC identified the following 12 Trends as ongoing operational environment characteristics that will significantly affect the Army’s future battlefield environment. The trends are categorized as follows:
A. The Strategic World:
1) Economic Rebalancing
2) Climate Change/Resource Competition
3) Demographics & Urbanization
B. Society
4) Collective Intelligence
5) Human Performance
6) Artificial Intelligence
C. Information
7) Human-Computer Interaction
8) Cyber and Space
9) Big Data
D. Science and Technology
10) Robotics
11) Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing
12) Power Generation & Storage