The Army plans to expand its autonomous air capability portfolio with a CCA-like option, and right now the service is working with the other services, partners and allies to find out what the right option may look like.
Lee Ferran and Ashley Roque walk through how the Army aviation community is handling its latest shakeup.
Hybrid communications requirements will shape the Army’s data infrastructure of the future.
"It's an accident that seems to be preventable, for what we can tell," Army secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll said at his confirmation hearing Thursday.
“The Connecticut delegation has questions about why, with that [FY24] appropriation in hand, this happened,” said Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn.
The newer category of weapons will take center stage at this year’s aviation-focused EDGE demonstration, with the service exploring swarming options.
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
In an age defined by rapid technological evolution and operational complexity, GA-ASI’s Modernized Gray Eagle® ER and Gray Eagle® STOL remain the gold standard.
Overmatch is fleeting and while traditional acquisitions can’t always keep up with new threats, a different and approved practice can.
In addition to halting the FARA competition, service leaders want to end UH-60 V Blackhawk production, postpone moving the Improved Turbine Engine Program into production, and phase out legacy drones.
During the three week exercise, data sharing started off “slow,” but as the event progressed and formatting was brought in line, “growth was exponential”, said Maj. Donald Irwin with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
“In an effort… to push schedule, we did not have any slack in our schedule and that’s no way to manage developmental programs,” said the Program Executive Officer for Aviation, Maj. Gen. Robert Barrie.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
With experienced pilots and ground crew leaving the service in droves, the Army is struggling to balance equipment modernization and unit training for large-scale, drone-driven war.