Black Hawk charts a course toward a digital, all-domain future
With a MOSA-enabled backbone, the ITEP engine, launched effects, and autonomy, the Black Hawk helicopter would be well-suited to both near-peer conflict and all-domain operations.
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Army’s digital engineering strategy aims to speed weapon systems development
The service has already asked vendors to come back with digital engineering “artifacts” and designs for two of its six modernization priorities, Army Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo told reporters.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
How the Army wants to build its ‘wolf pack’ drone waves
New autonomy and network technology could enable a new form of high-intensity, low-altitude tactics.
Army’s next-gen FLRAA helicopter will be chosen in ‘next few months,’ McConville says
The timeline for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft award is unclear after senior leaders seemed to push it back from an expected October announcement.
Collins focusing on JADC2 with recent demonstrations
The goal of the demonstration was to show how integrated technologies and joint connectivity can support warfighters by providing actionable data and increased situational awareness, the company said.
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Block II Chinook: Still The Answer – Now And In The Future
With greater lift and increased commonality, the Army’s heavy-lift helicopter just keeps getting better.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Army Wants To Accelerate FTUAS Drone
“I think it's unanimous from all the soldiers involved that we got this one right,” said the Army’s project manager for the Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial System. Manned aircraft, FARA and FLRAA, are also moving out sharply.
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How Future Vertical Lift Will Help The Army Prepare For A Converged Battlespace
The Army’s Fight for Battlefield Control is Changing, Lockheed Martin is Leaning in with Innovation
FVL: Don’t Pick The Tiltrotor, V-22 Test Pilot Tells Army
In the competition for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, high agility and low life-cycle costs matter most, a former Marine tiltrotor test pilot argues.
FVL: Key RFP Coming This Summer
Despite tightening budgets, the Army’s pushing ahead with its plan to replace the Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk with a high-speed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It’ll pick between Bell’s V-280 and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X next year, with the winner entering service in 2030.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
FVL: Army Can Afford Both Scout & Transport, General Pledges
The Army has learned from the Comanche scout chopper debacle, where it spent $9 billion in today’s dollars to get just two prototypes. With Future Vertical Lift, $7 billion will get 18 prototype aircraft, counting both the FARA scout and FLRAA transport.
FTUAS: Army Blown Away By New Drones (In Rain)
“Shadow could never fly in this type of moisture, couldn’t even come close,” Brig. Gen. Walter Rugen said, but all four FTUAS candidates made it through the rain. The formal Army Requirements Oversight Council process begins in weeks.
EXCLUSIVE: Army Airpower To Strike Deep In EDGE21 Wargame
New drones – launched by helicopters in flight and built by the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office – will reach out “hundreds of kilometers.” Marine F-35s, 82nd Airborne troops, and Special Ops will also participate in exercise EDGE21.
Defiant-X: Sikorsky, Boeing Unveil FLRAA Design
The companies’ proposed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) to replace the UH-60 is a sleeker, stealthier version of the prototype SB>1 Defiant now in flight tests. Can it beat Bell’s tiltrotor?