“We’re actually getting [soldiers] involved in how we’re helping to design the force….My view is that we are going to see a lot of refinements from the field that will really help us figure out how we need to adjust,” said Army Chief Randy George.
By Ashley RoqueEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
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By Breaking Defense
If approved, the US Army will lean on BAE Systems to ramp up production from 12 vehicles per month to 16 over the next two years.
By Ashley Roque
“We’re very confident that [in] FY24 we’re able to maintain the investments that we need in order to deliver the modernization strategy that we’ve set forth,” Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo.
By Ashley Roque
“I feel really good about the product we’re sending to Congress. Now, is it perfect? No… important trades had to be made,” Army acquisition head Douglas Bush said today.
By Ashley Roque
“The evolution of OWT shows how 3D terrain and information services are becoming essential tools for planning and decision-making not just for the U.S. Army but for a wide range of military, civil and commercial institutions,” Maxar’s Tony Frazier said.
By Jaspreet Gill
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
Congress must stop shortchanging the Army budget, especially modernization, so it can play its proper role in the Indo-Pacific and worldwide, writes the former chief of US Army Pacific.
By Robert Brown
The Army may spin off a procurement track solely for software development — in parallel to physical production — in hopes of hastening the “cadence” of essential digital upgrades to OMFV, officials told Breaking Defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“[We’re] trying to to mirror what it would be like to deploy into an austere environment, from fort-to-port, and then generate combat power on a foreign soil.”
By Ashley Roque
A redesign already trimmed the troop compartment from nine passengers to six, BAE says. Want to upgrade the engine? Load new software? Add a drone-killing laser? Unlike on the old Bradley, there’s plenty of room.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
DIU has brokered a potentially groundbreaking contract between the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle program and a small California firm that trains AI algorithms to navigate off-road.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With the different designs converging on similar physical specs – weight, powerplant, weapons – the competition comes down to digital intangibles: AI, electronics, and ease of upgrade.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army’s Project Origin robots have already changed the battlefield in exercises, but the office running the program says they’re just getting started.
By Andrew Eversden
AEI’s John Ferrari asks five important questions that the Army needs to answer before committing to high-dollar procurments during its modernization push.
By John Ferrari