Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Integrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
“You’ll see some significant changes” in the Navy report “regarding the portion of the fleet that supports maneuver of Marines and the expeditionary elements of that,” Gen. David Berger says.
By Paul McLeary
All-Domain Operations is”the biggest key to the future of the entire budget,” the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said, “because if we figure that out, we’ll have a significant advantage over everybody in the world for a long time.”
By Colin Clark
In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing “what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
By Paul McLeary
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
By Paul McLeary
“We’ve got to wrestle with ship mix and their capacity; there’s a balancing act.”
By Paul McLeary
The Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force tested new tactics for Pacific conflict, hand-in-glove with the Marines, Air Force, and Australians.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Display screens are the eyes for maneuver forces needing to command and control
The Army is upfitting vehicles with big 24 or 32-inch displays that present multiple sources of data for a full operational picture.
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
By Paul McLeary
The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The sea services have their own space specialists, but those personnel don’t only work on space — so who stays and who goes?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year — 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget — fix the problem?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Marines want Vertical Launch System missile tubes on their new amphibious ships — but the Navy isn’t planning to leave room for them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The Army is looking at this too but probably on a different timeline — the Marine Corps wants to get after this pretty quickly.”
By Paul McLeary
After years of secrecy and CGI, we’re finally getting to see the Sikorsky-Boeing dream team’s SB>1 Defiant ultra-high-speed helicopter in real life. Now they just have to prove it works.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
