Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles
Lockheed Martin won a $339 million contract today to integrate two Raytheon-made missiles, now used by the Navy, into a truck-mounted artillery battery by 2023.
Army Wants Smaller Brigades, Stronger Divisions & Lots Of Robots
New technologies and organizations will give soldiers an edge, Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe said, but tanks and foot troops will still face brutal close combat.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
5G Experiments In US Pave Way To Battlefields Abroad
Having awarded $600 million for 5G pilots at five bases in the US, the Pentagon will formally solicit for seven more in the coming months. But will 5G work in war zones?
Military AI Is Bigger Than Just The Kill Chain: JAIC Chief
“Being able to take out 10 targets in rapid succession…that's very exciting. It's awesome,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Groen. “But it's not enough.”
AMPV: BAE Delivering All 5 Variants This Fall
BAE Systems' York, Penn. plant has overcome COVID and quality-control problems to get the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle and the Paladin howitzer back on track, Army officials told Breaking Defense.
DEOS: ‘No One Looks Like Real Winners’ In Re-Award To GDIT
Like JEDI, DEOS is a multi-billion dollar cloud program held up for months by protests from losing bidders. This morning, the Pentagon reaffirmed General Dynamics as the winner, but cut the contract’s estimated value nearly in half.
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Pentagon Unveils Spectrum Strategy; Five Eyes Talking
Military technology often lags so far behind Silicon Valley, one defense official says, that much of the Pentagon is “in the Fred Flintstone era,” while the cutting edge is, “past the Jetsons.”
BD Checks Out Army’s Robotic Gun: ATLAS
The Army will soon hold live-fire tests of an AI that can algorithmically spot targets and aim at them -- but a human still has to pull the trigger. Will ATLAS let future tanks fight better with smaller crews?
DARPA AI Builds New Networks On The Fly
Military hierarchies are, by necessity, rigid structures. DARPA’s ‘Mosaic Warfare’ project aims for something much more fluid and adaptable, with AI doing the logistical grunt work so human commanders can get creative.
GM Defense Delivers 1st Air-Droppable Trucks
GM Defense made delivery of its Infantry Squad Vehicle in just 120 days from contract award. Next up: intensive Army testing, with two trucks set aside for parachuting out of airplanes. The 82nd Airborne gets the first ISVs next year.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Lynx Strikes Back: How Rheinmetall Could Win Army OMFV (ANALYSIS)
The Army's new priorities -- emphasizing heavy armor and robotics -- and Rheinmetall's successes overseas combine to give the KF41 Lynx a fighting chance to be the new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.
DARPA’s Hypersonic OpFires Aims For Army 1,000-Mile Missile
With ground tests this year and a full-up flight test in 2023, OpFires hopes to become the Army’s long-term solution for its Mid-Range Capability missile.
Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021
In this fall’s Project Convergence exercises, it took a heroic effort just to get the network to work at all. Next year, the Army wants the network to function in the face of electronic attack.
LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21
Weapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army’s ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.