I think that is the plan.
http://rt.com/usa/us-army-brigade-inactivation-249/
I think we will see this play out in ROTC Branching the next few years. Maybe that hard engineering degree is a good thing:
"Besides an additional battalion, which is usually 600-800 soldiers, BCTs will have more engineers assigned. It is expected that remaining brigades would be somewhere close to 5,000 personnel instead of the today’s 3,500 servicemen and women.'
Another point in the article.
"In this way the impact on combat power will be minimized and the savings will be made at the expense of support units outside of BCT and logistics."