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Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy says the service’s new five-year budget plan will be finished within weeks.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Will Cull Hypersonic & Laser Weapons Portfolios: Jette & Murray](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/03/advancedhypersonicweapon-225x150.jpg)
While Congress wrestles with CH-47 cuts, Army leaders are already looking ahead to hard decisions on high tech.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Beyond Chinook: Army Secretary Challenges Industry To Revolutionize Heavy Lift](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/CH-47F-Chinooks-US-Army-225x150.jpg)
A light scout and a mid-size transport remain Army aviation’s top two priorities, Secretary Mark Esper said, but industry needs to start thinking about the next heavy-lift aircraft and stop fighting against cuts to the venerable CH-47.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Will Army Uncancel CH-47F Chinook Upgrade? Sec. Esper & Gen. McConville](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2015/06/CH-47F-Boeing-225x150.jpg)
The Army wants to keep its options open on upgrading its heaviest cargo helicopter. Boeing is worried the window of opportunity — and its factory — will close before the Army makes up its mind.
By Paul McLeary![Top Appropriator Urges Army To Help Him Pass Their Budget](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2018/05/Esper-Milley-testify-to-Congress-225x150.jpg)
Is the Army doing enough to sell Congress on its five-year, $57 billion modernization plan? And does that long-term effort require a long-term leader?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Oshkosh Rolls Out New JLTV As Army Talks Cuts](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/JLTV_Group_J1A5102_10x8_rgb_LowRes-225x150.jpg)
The Army’s not sure it wants 55,000 JLTVs — but manufacturer Oshkosh is doubling down. Why?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/03/advancedhypersonicweapon-225x150.jpg)
To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Why DoD Cut A Carrier in 2020 Budget: Survivable Robots & Missiles Vs. China](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2017/04/Marine-F-18-launch-050102-N-2984R-118-225x150.jpg)
An inside source explains the logic behind the 2020 budget’s most controversial call.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2016/11/M1-at-National-Training-Center-2015-225x150.jpg)
Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year — 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget — fix the problem?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![2020 Budget: Army Shifts $31B To Modernization, Readiness](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2017/12/McCarthy-UnderSecArmy-Ryan-@-AUSA-225x150.jpg)
That’s $6 billion more than previously announced — but it all comes at the cost of almost 200 cut, cancelled, or slowed-down programs, each with backers in Congress.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
What does one of the most influential defense lawmakers on the Hill, Rob Wittman, think about the Trump Administration plan to cut the number of aircraft carriers from 11 to 10?
By Rep. Rob Wittman