“There’s no way we go into a large-scale fight without relying on allies and partners for supply chain airfields [and ports]. We’ve identified [those], you know, down to every airfield and port there is,” said Army Materiel Command head Gen. Charles Hamilton. “Have we done the same thing here in the United States?”
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.
“Envision a swarm of these autonomous vessels going out to various island chains … not having to beach because we’re gonna have the UAVs come in, meet somewhere over the water, grab portions, and take that AOR’s portion … of ammo, food, blood,” said Rob Watts, the deputy director of the Army’s contested logistics cross-functional team.
By Ashley Roque
“What we found is that systems that are heavily reliant on contractor support, that have a minimum of government-owned intellectual property or access to the intellectual property, that the flexibility to make changes in accordance with a new national security environment is limited,” Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow
Observing Ukraine, Gen James Rainey told Breaking Defense, “We’re a joint force and every domain matters, but the land domain is absolutely decisive. That remains unchanged.”
By Ashley Roque
“Contested logistics are hard enough without running a resupply operation and not getting the right thing: There’s a lot of room there for progress,” Gen. James Rainey told Breaking Defense.
By Ashley Roque After the exercise, the Army plans to leave logistic support equipment, like tanker trucks, inside Australia instead of loading it back onto the Army Prepositioned Stock 3 ships.
By Ashley Roque
The Army wants to be a major logistics player in the Pacific. The secretary of the Army thinks commercial industry has tools to help the service do that.
By Andrew Eversden
A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
“…[W]hen you have a living and breathing threat, you need to think about the things such as a contested and congested environment,” Maj. Gen. Rob Collins, the service’s program executive officer for command, control, communications-tactical (PEO C3T) said.
By Jaspreet Gill
The new Joint Warfighting Concept to guide military operations for the next 30 years is “aspirational,” and now must be fleshed out as best the Pentagon can with the resources available, says Gen. John Hyten, vice JCS chair.
By Theresa Hitchens
NORTHCOM’s GIDE experiments are aimed at applying AI decision-making tools to realistic scenarios “to show what’s available now, and to change culture,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, NORTHCOM commander, said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“AI is going to change many things about military operations, but nothing is going to change America’s commitment to the laws of war and the principles of our democracy,” the Defense Secretary said.
By Colin Clark
The Joint Warfighting Concept will “envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility” within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
By Theresa Hitchens
How the Air Force embodies its ‘agile combat employment’ concept depends in part on the future fleet composition — with the F-22’s fate a central question.
By Theresa Hitchens
