"We have a new tiltrotor aircraft, and it was supposed to be delivered in 2031, 2032 and we said, 'No, we need it, you know, very quickly,'" the Army chief of staff said.
The office outlines 13 recommendations for the DoD and services that primarily revolve around revising weapon systems' test and evaluation policies to reflect “leading practices” for product development.
Standoff capability means warfighters stay connected and remain remotely located in a safer environment while making it harder for adversaries to target them.
The National Defense Authorization Act authorizes $900.6 billion in defense funds, or about $8 billion more than the White House’s request.
Among other provisions in the FY26 NDAA, congressional authorizers would direct the defense secretary to explore possibilities for recapitalizing the military services’ executive airlift fleets.
“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.
After manifesting 1,400 payloads aboard the ISS, Voyager is applying its mission management expertise to the next generation of space stations, ensuring uninterrupted mission readiness and success from the ground to space.
Discussing the MV-75 FLRAA program objectives and how they align with the Army's modernization strategy.
Bell will now proceed in DARPA’s Speed and Runway Independent Technologies program, which has eliminated Aurora Flight Sciences from the running.
“Especially from an X2 standpoint, the largest procurement out there is really NGRC. And that recapitalization of the helicopter fleet in Europe is the largest thing we see today at least in the next five or 10 years,” said Sikorsky boss Rich Benton.
The intent, Brig. Gen. David Phillips said, is not to “leave any rigor behind” but to focus on producing a “a safe, suitable, effective platform for the users.”
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“A lot of the reasons that we're making decisions are because of political change. That's the reality of our governmental system," said Maj. Gen. Clair Gill. "And so we might be moving down a path for a couple years, and things change. The world changes. Wars happen.”
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division will be the first to receive FLRAA, said Gen. James Mingus.
"The Army’s program managers for FLRAA and Aviation looked at PEO-RW’s engineering analysis and considered the weight trades before adding a little bit of weight to the baseline of that aircraft,” A PEO-RW official said.
“We're ceasing investment and procurement into those two programs as part of the army transformation initiative so we can free up those resources and reinvest them,” an Army spokesperson told Breaking Defense today.