The nominee for Army Secretary also aims to end “friction” between civilian acquisition officials and Army Futures Command, she told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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The technological advancements are at our fingertips – and ready now – to help design the fastest, lightest, most long-range and powerful rotorcraft in history, and weight and drag optimization is a critical success factor.
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Some 22 of the Army’s 35 top programs are supposed to field some kind of capability in the next four years, even as budgets drop.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
This month, the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is testing a new “common platform” for AI development.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The upcoming upgrade to the Army’s tactical network, Capability Set ’23, will exploit the boom in commercial Low- and Medium-Earth Orbit satellites to boost communications for fast-moving Stryker units.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Modular open systems architecture… is the foundation of all our future modernization,” said Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean. The Bradley replacement, OMFV, will be the test case.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. In Afghanistan and Iraq, a military lawyer was always at the table for strike decisions, said the chief of Army Futures Command. In future wars, there may not be time to go around the table.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Six small companies got $100,000 awards to do an eight-week sprint on ways to move the Army to electric power. Meanwhile, an academic study denounced the Army’s plan for mobile nuclear reactors.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The B-21 Raider: A Marvel Of Digital Development
Risk reduction is vital in the development of this new Air Force bomber. Northrop Grumman is driving risk out of the program with digital capabilities throughout design, build, prototype, and test.
“There’s capabilities out on the bench, on the floor, sitting out back in the parking lot,” said Army senior executive Michael Monteleone, who founded the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The S-97 Raider is Sikorsky’s proto-prototype for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. It’s competing with the Bell 360 Invictus — but unlike the S-97, the 360 isn’t flying yet.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The deadline for industry to submit proposals is May 5. The AI, networking, and robotics experiment, which had been postponed by COVID, will be part of the Project Convergence wargames in 2022.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“This is a journey to see what’s possible, what can we do with today’s technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” — $23 million.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“It comes down to data standards and it comes down to architecture. How does the Air Force architecture integrate with the Army architecture and with the Navy architecture? What are those crossover points?”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Theresa Hitchens
Adding robot scouts and replacing vintage vehicles – the M113, the M2 Bradley, and potentially even the M1 Abrams – will make heavy brigades much more mobile, lethal, and aware of threats, Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman says.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
PrSM is preparing for its first 300-plus-mile flight test this year, while the ERCA cannon and hypersonic LRHW head for key tests in 2023.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
