HONOLULU —The greatest risk the Army has in the Indo-Pacific region is inaction—“being late” when a crisis or conflict emerges, out of position, not fast enough, “or even worse, doing nothing at all,” said U.S. Army Pacific commander Gen. Ronald Clark.

The command is the “Army’s innovation testbed,” Clark said, and continuous transformation is imperative. “So as leaders, we have to become comfortable with failing fast, iterating quickly, and developing better solutions,” he told an audience of defense industry representatives and troops at the AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific conference.

The Army is amid a rapid modernization effort called Transformation in Contact , and several of the units created or chosen to test new technology and concepts are part of USARPAC. The command has also “emb

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