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The Army has nixed future “Capability Set” upgrade packages for brigade networks in favor of smaller, more frequent updates, with the most complex technology reserved for division and corps HQs.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“Industry has told us that they they think they can go faster, and we’re hopeful that we can accelerate the program,” said Laura DeSimone, Missile Defense Agency executive director.
By Theresa Hitchens
A redesign already trimmed the troop compartment from nine passengers to six, BAE says. Want to upgrade the engine? Load new software? Add a drone-killing laser? Unlike on the old Bradley, there’s plenty of room.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
From Chinese fighter jets to secret space weapons, here’s what was most read for Breaking Defense in 2021.
By Lee Ferran
Services bought from industry eventually “could include everything from a piece of hardware to the operations center to the bandwidth,” Brig. Gen. Rob Collins told the SATELLITE 2021 conference today.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I’m here today to tell you that our future is not our past. It’s time to change our future, and we change our future by how we behave. And we can do hard things, we can be successful at wicked hard problems,” Army Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood said.
By Colin Clark
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The Army’s prioritized so ruthlessly that the top 11 percent of programs will get 50 percent of the funding. The other 89 percent can’t take any more cuts without it killing them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon can fly over 2,775 km, an Army official told Breaking Defense. That figure probably applies to the Navy’s CPS version as well.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“What’s that going to mean from an operational perspective?” acting secretary John Whitley asks. “What’s that going to mean from a budgetary perspective?”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army will create new field artillery battalions in its heavy divisions, armed with the new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) armored howitzer. It’s part of a plan to add new Long-Range Precision Fire weapons at every level of command.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The upcoming upgrade to the Army’s tactical network, Capability Set ’23, will exploit the boom in commercial Low- and Medium-Earth Orbit satellites to boost communications for fast-moving Stryker units.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Recent gains in readiness and modernization are fragile, Army leaders warned, and budget cuts would undermine the service’s ability to help the Joint Force.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon’s acquisition shop — including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the…
By Theresa Hitchens
As Secretary of Defense, Carter set the military on its current course: containing Russia and China with high-tech investments in AI, networks, and long-range weapons.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.