While Tesla won’t be building heavy tanks, the Army Futures & Concepts Center says moving lighter, wheeled vehicles from fossil fuel to electric drive could streamline supply lines – and save lives.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Training bases are now taking new recruits after a two-week pause. “We have enough test kits” for all of them and their instructors, Gen. Paul Funk said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.While the pandemic’s halted field exercises, tabletop wargames can continue long-distance. The catch? Getting classified bandwidth so you can discuss specific military capabilities.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The partnership will “drive fielding of the critical technologies needed to ensure U.S. and Allied military superiority in hypersonic systems,” Mike Griffin says.
By Theresa HitchensThe Corps of Engineers is now building 28 facilities, up from 17 last week, while the states are building another 41 to Army plans. Coming soon: the DC Convention Center.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Some 992 soldiers have now tested positive, with a cluster among trainees at Fort Jackson, S.C., although many showed no symptoms.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The first four flight tests – one a failure — took nine years. The next five will take less than three years.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“With only limited warning, Beijing or Moscow could exploit their
time-distance advantage to seize allied territory before the United States and its allies could respond, thereby creating a fait accompli that would be difficult to reverse after the fact,” CSBA finds.
While Army and Navy spending nearly double, Air Force and independent agency spending drops almost 40 percent.
By Theresa Hitchens and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.With tens of thousands of military and civilian personnel working from home, IT projects that normally take years to grind through the bureaucracy are now happening in weeks — but cybersecurity concerns persist.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Army’s annual xTechSearch contest is all about rapidly developing innovative ideas from smaller companies. But can they find, fund, and build a low-cost ventilator in time to combat the coronavirus?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.For the rest of this year, the Navy is doubling down on its boosters, conducting a series of static fire tests to collect data before another test firing. “We’ve been crawling, now we’re starting to walk where we’re going to get the booster design done — we’re going to static test this year — and then we will start to truly, truly run,” Wolfe said.
By Paul McLeary