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.
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
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.
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.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
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.
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.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
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.
OMFV: Rheinmetall, Textron & Raytheon Offer Lynx For Bradley Replacement – Again
These companies teamed up for the Army’s first, stillborn attempt to build a new armored troop carrier in 2019. This time they’re offering “a new variant.”
BAE Offers Truck-Mounted Howitzer For Army Stryker Units
Already fielded in Sweden — and mounted on a Volvo truck — BAE’s 155 mm Archer will compete in a US Army “shoot off” early next year.
MPF: Light Tank Competitors BAE & GD Head For Soldier Tests
BAE and General Dynamics are vying to build 504 Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles to support light infantry units, especially in places the massive M1 Abrams cannot go.