The Army has struggled for decades to fit armored vehicles on airplanes. The real challenge is getting them across rickety Soviet-era bridges in Eastern Europe.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Enterprise-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.
The Pentagon is about to pitch Congress on a plan to move $5.7 billion from legacy programs to new modernization efforts. Some offices are going to feel some pain.
By Paul McLeary
No political message was intended by the launch. Testing “is not used as a ‘signaling mechanism’ politically,” Col. Omar Colbert, Air Force Global Strike Command’s 576th Flight Test Squadron commander, stressed on Monday.
By Theresa Hitchens
This year’s battle of the budget between the services has been much more public than any in recent memory, as Breaking D readers know. Mackenzie Eaglen, who writes for us regularly on Congress and the budget, does a deep dive and presents the results of which service really wins in the budget — and why…
By Mackenzie Eaglen
Congress stopped the US Army from cancelling advanced procurement, while Germany, Israel, and the UK are all potential purchasers – but none has signed a production contract yet.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Read about the 20 innovators in AI, biotech, materials & more who will compete at AUSA’s Huntsville conference in March as the Army shakes up its acquisition system.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Developing JADC2 is one of the highest priorities of Hyten’s boss, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley: “Therefore it’s one of my highest priorities.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
Dean Cheng, a China analyst at the Heritage Foundation, called the inept spywork “very strange,” but noted similar acts are likely happening all across the United States.
By Paul McLeary
Six companies got $150,000 Field Artillery Autonomous Resupply contracts to study everything from exoskeletons that strengthen human ammo handlers to robots that might replace them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army’s building a detailed VR map of the planet and the service’s CIO sees JEDI as the logical place to host such a massive database.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The DoD wants to invest in new technologies, but no real budget growth means it’s going to have to cut, and cut big to free up cash.
By Paul McLeary
General Dynamics’ cancelled OMFV prototype could only meet the requirement for armor protection by growing too heavy to meet the requirement for air transport, sources say. So which will the Army give up?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Air Force is pushing ABMS as the backbone for future Joint All Domain Command & Control. Can the network scale up from hundreds of aircraft to thousands of ground troops?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Four days after the service cancelled its initial solicitation, the Chief of Staff promised a new troop carrier would come. But can industry afford to keep trying?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
