“After 20 years of war, we have a tremendous amount of excess,” said Maj. Gen. Chris Mohan, commanding general of Army Sustainment Command.
By Andrew Eversden
The CH-53K has had a rough two years filled with testing issues and schedule delays, but it executed a real mission in September.
By Justin Katz
“The farther it flies, the faster it flies, because it’s scooping up more oxygen, and that also helps you to avoid detection,” a Boeing executive said of the Ramjet design.
By Valerie Insinna
In his confirmation hearing to be the Army’s top acquisition official, Doug Bush noted that the Army’s expressed confidence in the service’s major modernization efforts but was wary of future challenges.
By Andrew Eversden
Army emphasized it “remains committed” to the $21 billion-plus program.
By Andrew Eversden
The service remains on pace to field an offensive hypersonic unit by fiscal 2023, general says.
By Andrew Eversden
The Integrated Visual Augmentation System, part of a $21.88 billion contract, will now have its operational test in May 2022.
By Andrew Eversden
“If there’s one thing DoD and industry have done, it’s try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don’t need,” Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.
By Brad D. Williams
Lockheed says missile test “successful,” won’t say exactly how far it went.
By Andrew Eversden
“We’re going to be flying in lower flight profiles than we have over the last 20 years in counterinsurgency operations and so, even today, we are changing the way we train Army aviators,” said Maj. Gen. David Francis.
By Andrew Eversden
“You’re not going to see the breakthroughs if every bit of risk is baked out of everything we do from the very beginning. We’ll never be able to keep up with the pace of change,” Murray said.
By Andrew Eversden
“If you looked at both what we have in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, across the federal government and our industrial partners, we have the best AI technology,” Army CIO Ray Iyer said.
By Colin Clark
“The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing,” Army CIO Raj Iyer said. “Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn’t work anymore.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The program, which was rebaselined during Low Rate Initial Production, is now meeting monthly production goals, Jim Schimer, deputy PEO for ground combat systems, told us. But a “gap remains” between what BAE was contracted to supply and what they are supplying.
By Colin Clark
