Army Material Command

Army partners with industry to alleviate Abrams engine supply chain woes

The Army organized what it called a "hackathon" to find new vendors that could help with the supply of 166 critical components causing readiness issues for the tank's engine.

Tobyhanna Depot boosts drone component production with new assembly lines 

Ahead of the Army's upcoming advanced manufacturing strategy, leaders within the Army's organic industrial base revealed new details on how they are scaling production of drone components as part of the Drone Dominance initiative.

‘Jury’s still out’ on future of Army’s mobile prepositioned stock: AMC head

So far, the Army has offloaded equipment from the APS-3 to bases in South Korea and the Philippines.

Army wants to buy one million drones over next two to three years

This uptick in drone acquisition will be possible through a new pilot program, called SkyFoundry, an initiative headed by Army Material Command, an Army Spokesperson told Breaking Defense.

‘Don’t be surprised’ if Army starts 3D printing its own parts: Materiel Command head

“I acknowledge that their intellectual property is their intellectual property,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, said of the vendors. “It is a shame on us for not buying it up front, which is foolish, a fool's errand."

Army reconsidering prepositioned stock strategy, ‘doubling down’ on Indo-Pacific, general says

Army Materiel Command Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan said the service could disband a floating, mobile cache of weapons and equipment and instead distribute them in friendly territory.

Army’s CECOM levels up modernization with rapid software updates, new AI tools

“We're adapting and modernizing with the Army. What excites me is that it really opens the aperture of who we are as an organization," Garrett Shoemaker, director of CECOM’s SEC, told Breaking Defense.

5 questions with the 3-star general leading Army Materiel Command

"Our Ukrainian partners, because of necessity, are pushing the boundaries on how they do [3D printing] — both at the tactical level and all the way back at their depot system as well. The world has a lot to learn from how our Ukrainian partners are working," Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan told Breaking Defense.

From more drones to smaller command posts, Army’s 3rd ID tests out new tactics

“We had battalions and squads with UAS that had not had them in that volume or at those echelons before. We endeavored to make contact with unmanned systems first,” said Col. Jim Armstrong, the commander of 1st ABCT, 3rd ID.

New NATO members prompt US Army to revisit ‘high north’ stock locations

The service is also crafting a plan and working the diplomatic channels to gain new agreements for Army prepositioned stock sites in the Indo-Pacific region, said AMC’s Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan.