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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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
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.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
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.
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
FVL: Army’s High-Speed Helicopters Hurtle Ahead
Bell and Sikorsky have started building their competing prototypes for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) ahead of a Final Design Review in November. The vital digital architecture is still in development.
Army Combat Training Centers Return to Pre-COVID Levels
Some 19 brigades will hold wargames at the CTCs in 2021. That’s shy of the pre-COVID peak of 21 last year, but above the average for 2015-2019.
Army Dissects Black Hawk Helo, Scans Parts For 3D Printing
Before you can 3D print a part, you need a detailed 3D model of it. So Army Material Command is figuring out how to scan tens of thousands of parts. One method: pull apart an entire helicopter.
Modernize, Train, Deploy: Army REARRMs For Russia, China
The Army is developing a new Regionally Aligned Readiness & Modernization Model (REARRM) to prepare its forces for great power competition, with different units tailoring their training and equipment to specific foes and theaters.