Service leaders are looking to find industry solutions for short/vertical takeoff and landing (S/VOTL) drones, ones that don’t require a runway, in the Group 4 or above category.
“This integration delivers uninterrupted readiness, rapid force generation and expertise in homeland defense and civil support,” the service wrote. “This enables the U.S. Army to respond more rapidly to crises and continue building strong military alliances.”
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
The Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program is the Army’s first program of record for a new family of high-energy lasers.
Gen. Mingus “always intended” for this to be “his last job,” adding that “it is a little early, sure but not significant," an Army source told Breaking Defense.
Brent Ingraham told Breaking Defense that the service’s ongoing Transformation in Contact exercises will help inform leadership on what weapons and platforms it will and won’t go forward with as part of the ATI.
Brig. Gen. Donald Brooks, deputy commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), said the command's plan to stand up a new Space Branch is now "in the approval process" at the senior service level.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Dan Driscoll told reporters that there will be a “consolidation and streamlining of how we buy things in the Army,” criticizing the current 12 PEOs as being too "siloed."
“What has changed is that we’ve doubled down on the Army’s priorities, and I believe our Army senior leaders and Congress are helping us remove some of the barriers to acceleration," PEO Aviation Brig. Gen. David Phillips told Breaking Defense.
The service has previously said that the next buy of the UH-60Ms will be its last, but Brig. Gen. David Phillips said he foresees the fleet operating in the Army through the 2040s and 50s.
Lt. Gen. David Hodne, previously the deputy commanding general for futures and concepts at AFC, will lead the new T2COM, which will operate mostly out of Austin, Texas, where AFC was.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Though the Army said “the scope and organization of a soldier experiment for self-propelled artillery is still being defined,” the RFI suggests that the service is primarily looking for US-made and -manufactured solutions.
Those in charge of outfitting EW capabilities are on the hook for finding a modular solution with little to no details about what it may be placed on.
"It would be unnatural actually to leave that the way it is, having significantly changed the requirements as much as we have," Joe Welch, deputy to the commanding general of Army Futures Command (AFC), told Breaking Defense.
After the Army Transformation Initiative shook up drone plans, the service wants a replacement for older Gray Eagles in 2028 and the Shadow in 2026, according to a service official.