Battery research programs at the Army’s Ground Vehicle System Center will help the Army’s transition to hybrid and electric vehicles allowing quieter, longer duration operations.
“Enlarging NATO is exactly the opposite of what Putin envisioned when he ordered his tanks to invade Ukraine,” Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said ahead of the vote.
The defense giant will integrate and modernize the weapons program for the Pentagon’s intermediate and long-range Ground-based Midcourse Defense system.
“Russia is very stretched … as they’re doing what they’re doing in Ukraine so I don’t think they have a lot of bandwidth to launch new adventures in Africa,” said AFRICOM commander Stephen Townsend.
“I think there’s further work to do to improve the system. But we saw a lot of positive things as a test,” the Army’s top acquisition official said of IVAS, before separately noting a potential delay in a major future helicopter program contract.
An Army official recently said the service hasn’t finished analyzing the results from a critical IVAS test, still assessing best path forward for enhanced soldier vision.
“The loitering munition market is going to evolve certainly,” Rafael’s Roman Palaria told Breaking Defense. “I personally believe that it’s a new market that is building up very quickly.”
“One of the pitfalls from the past was that we were focusing too much on national requirements instead of Alliance or coalition requirements,” said Maj. Gen. Andre Steur, national capability director in the Dutch Defence Ministry.
“It is high time to adapt our air and missile defense posture, policy and programs to the near-peer and to things other than ICBMs,” Tom Karako, co-author of the report, told Breaking Defense in an interview.
After delays, the ITEP engine will start preliminary flight rating testing in the fall and the Army plans to make it available to FARA prototypes by November.
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
