Carley Welch covers networks and digital warfare for Breaking Defense. She earned a BS in journalism from James Madison University and a MA in investigative reporting from American University where she was part of the team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In her role as a networks and digital warfare reporter, she covers IT, C4ISR, cyber, EW and DoD enterprise modernization.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll explained that the plan is for the Army to break down the interceptor into subsegments and buy them — and their IP — separately, allowing the Army sole ownership of the interceptor.
The Army said the AMPV 30 is not a replacement option for the XM30 program, but an executive said the vehicle "fits a different envelope."
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
The company said in a release today that it will be providing its Switchblade 400 product, a portable, anti-armor loitering munition with medium range.
The Increment 2 iteration will consist of a counter unmanned aerial system variant, a recovery variant and one for precision fires.
Currently OFP-L systems from three manufacturers are being tested by units at Dugway Proving Grounds outside of Salt Lake City.
Though there is not a current requirement or program of record for such systems, they have been fielded to Marines due to an "urgent field need.”
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The MESA vehicle is designed for both logistics and casualty evacuation operations up to the "last tactical mile."
“The Army is in the midst of its most significant modernization in over 40 years,” Maj. Gen. Rebecca McElwain, director of the Army budget, told reporters during the Pentagon’s budget rollout Tuesday. “This involves developing and fielding new capabilities while adapting formations, training and concepts to the character of modern warfare.”
After the recent FY27 budget request drastically cut helicopter procurement funding, senior leaders and industry ensure foreign sales and reinvestment programs will keep the helo manufacturers afloat.
“We don't want to do all the development, we want to do the procurement. We want to buy it for the long term, so that that's where we're going back to the manufacturers and having negotiations about, how do we best position the development so that it's not all on the government," Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, PAE of Maneuver Air, said.
“We don’t have those organic to the Army. So I think we need to solve our own problems, and think about how do we do our own, let’s call it logistical resupply in the air, of an MV-75,” Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, PAE of Maneuver Air, said.
The Army is looking for a launched effect capability that can potentially travel up to 1,000 km, with a demo planned later this year.
In the past year, the Army has divested nearly 60 percent of its Apache D models, Col. Tim Jaeger, director of Army aviation at the G3/5/7, said.
"It's going to happen when it's going to happen," Maj. Gen. Clair Gill told reporters when asked about expected timeline milestones for the new aircraft.