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Innovation from the middle tier is what keeps the US industrial base robust

Innovation from the middle tier is what keeps the US industrial base robust
Innovation from the middle tier is what keeps the US industrial base robust

Valued members of the U.S. industrial base don’t just develop capabilities, they deliver them, too.

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“Under Armor” – Ground Combat Vehicle Systems

“Under Armor” – Ground Combat Vehicle Systems
“Under Armor” – Ground Combat Vehicle Systems

Part 4 of a narrative series illustrating how Elbit America’s USA-manufactured products enable customers to successfully accomplish their most demanding missions.

Bradley Replacement: Did Army Ask For ‘Unobtainium’?

Bradley Replacement: Did Army Ask For ‘Unobtainium’?
Bradley Replacement: Did Army Ask For ‘Unobtainium’?

General Dynamics’ cancelled OMFV prototype could only meet the requirement for armor protection by growing too heavy to meet the requirement for air transport, sources say. So which will the Army give up?

Will Milley Replace The Abrams Tank? Futures Command Advances

Will Milley Replace The Abrams Tank? Futures Command Advances
Will Milley Replace The Abrams Tank? Futures Command Advances

Army Futures Command is just a means to an end: modernizing the Army for high-intensity war against Russia or China. That includes replacing the iconic but aging M1 Abrams main battle tank, as well as other war machines, with an all-new Next Generation Combat Vehicle optimized for urban warfare, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype by 2019

Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype by 2019
Army Wants Armed Ground Robot Prototype by 2019

The new combat vehicles must be “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.” Fighting in narrow streets, in turn, requires smaller vehicles than the massive M1 — and one way to reduce weight is to take the humans out.

Milley’s Future Tank: Railguns, Robotics & Ultra-Light Armor

Milley’s Future Tank: Railguns, Robotics & Ultra-Light Armor
Milley’s Future Tank: Railguns, Robotics & Ultra-Light Armor

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: The tank is far from obsolete and the US will need a new armored vehicle to replace its 1980-vintage M1 Abrams, the Army Chief of Staff said here this afternoon. But what kind of tank, on what kind of timeline? Gen. Mark Milley made clear he was looking for a “breakthrough,” not…

The Long Road To Army’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle

The Long Road To Army’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle
The Long Road To Army’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle

  ARLINGTON: Two years after the demoralizing cancellation of the Ground Combat Vehicle, the Army is rallying round a new vision for its future armored force. That vision has come into sharper focus just in the last few months, armor leaders said Tuesday. Facing a rising Russia with an aging American arsenal, the Army will…

Army Must Forge New Path on Weapons Spending

Army Should Break With DoD’s Modernization Strategy

Army Should Break With DoD’s Modernization Strategy
Army Should Break With DoD’s Modernization Strategy

The Army needs to break with DoD’s modernization strategy or risk being broken itself. Simply stated, the Army cannot afford to cut end strength and units in order to free up resources for modernization. This is all the more true if the modernization programs are complex, expensive and will take years to reach IOC. The…

Heidi Shyu Steps Off The ‘Long Bus’: Acquisition Achievements Appreciated

Heidi Shyu Steps Off The ‘Long Bus’: Acquisition Achievements Appreciated
Heidi Shyu Steps Off The ‘Long Bus’: Acquisition Achievements Appreciated

WASHINGTON: Running weapons programs is a grueling job. Running Army programs, with their history of spectacular failures and cancellations, can be worse. That means Heidi Shyu‘s first achievement is endurance: in one senior position or another, the outgoing Army acquisition chief lasted five years amidst steeply declining budgets. Perhaps her biggest achievement was to keep her sense…

Army Armor Modernizes In Slow Motion

Army Armor Modernizes In Slow Motion
Army Armor Modernizes In Slow Motion

WASHINGTON: The US Army is deploying extra stocks of heavy weapons to Europe to deter Russia’s increasingly naked aggression. These are the most advanced ground weapons America can field — but the tanks and other heavy fighting vehicles in this buildup are the same ones we had the last time the Russians were a danger, back when…

Army To Congress: We Are Fixing Acquisition

Army To Congress: We Are Fixing Acquisition
Army To Congress: We Are Fixing Acquisition

WASHINGTON: The top question on defense lawmakers’ minds right now is: “Can we trust you with the people’s money?” And no large military organization has a worse record in that respect than the US Army, with its unhappy track record of canceled programs and wasted billions dating to before 9/11. It’s such a sensitive and high-stakes question that, when I started to ask Army…

Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake

Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake
Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake

AUSA: The Honorable Shyu, as everyone in the military calls the head of Army acquisition, is often bright, humorous and insightful. Today, she got passionate in public, clearly frustrated at the painful limits that the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration have forced her to adopt. American military power has traditionally rested on technological overmatch. We…

Tank Goodness: Armor Programs Will Recover Despite GCV Kill, Sequester

Tank Goodness: Armor Programs Will Recover Despite GCV Kill, Sequester
Tank Goodness: Armor Programs Will Recover Despite GCV Kill, Sequester

Sometimes dark clouds really do have silver linings. The winding down of two wars and the automatic spending cuts called sequestration have been brutal for the Army budget. The service recently had to cancel its top-priority weapons program, the tank-like Ground Combat Vehicle. But even if sequestration continues, said one leading analyst, ground vehicle spending…

Shyu Sings The Army Electric: 2015 Budget Sacrifices Weapons For Electronics

Shyu Sings The Army Electric: 2015 Budget Sacrifices Weapons For Electronics
Shyu Sings The Army Electric: 2015 Budget Sacrifices Weapons For Electronics

UPDATED 2:00 pm Tuesday with detailed 2015 budget figures WASHINGTON: The 2015 budget effectively kills the Army’s top priority weapons program, the 60-plus-ton Ground Combat Vehicle — as we’ve been predicting since November — but GCV did not die in vain, the Army’s acquisition chief insists. “We sacrificed the GCV” to save programs upgrading electronics…