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WASHINGTON: The Army will ask Congress to change current law to help it buy weapons better, Maj. Gen. Bill Hix told reporters. Sure, the service can do and is doing a lot with its existing authorities, he said, such as create a Futures and Modernization Command (FMC), but comprehensive reform requires more. In fact, Lt.…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Shifts $1B In S&T, Plans Modernization Command: UnderSec McCarthy](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2017/12/McCarthy-UnderSecArmy-Ryan-@-AUSA-225x150.jpg)
PENTAGON: Merry Christmas, US Army. As you read this, the White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the service’s draft spending plan for 2019-2023, which reshuffles more than a billion dollars in science and technology funds, undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told me in an exclusive interview. The goal: to better resource…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![‘Almost Breathtaking’ Changes As Army Races To Build Final 2019 Budget](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/McCarthy-Ryan-Acting-SecArmy-https-www.army_.mil-e2-images-rv7-leaders-official-mccarthy_original2-e1507757432885-225x150.jpg)
ARLINGTON: The Pentagon is reaching a fevered pitch of preparation for the 2019 budget, with key decisions coming in “weeks,” said the acting secretary of the Army. “There’s so much going in the department, it’s almost breathtaking,” Ryan McCarthy told reporters after an Association of the US Army breakfast. But the Army’s under extra pressure…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Milley Announces Biggest Buying Shift In 40 Years: Army Will Get Weapons The SOCOM Way](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/IMG_2596-225x150.jpg)
AUSA: The Army will start buying weapons the way Special Operations does, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley told reporters here, bringing different specialists together in one streamlined team. The often-insular Army is also studying the other services, Milley said, particularly the rapid development of the nuclear Navy under legendary Adm. Hyman Rickover. A three-star…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Electronic Warfare Investment Lags Russian Threat](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2016/03/Army-CEWI-surveillance-vehicle-225x150.jpg)
There is a great disconnect in the Department of Defense. Leaders at the highest levels realize we are falling behind — or have already fallen behind — Russia and China in electronic warfare, the invisible battle of detecting and disrupting the radar and radio transmissions on which a modern military depends. Even in the traditionally lower-tech…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Puts ‘Cyber Soldiers’ In The Mud](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2015/11/Cyber-soldier-at-Fort-Lewis-exercise-e1701207597940-225x150.jpg)
ARLINGTON: Pop culture pictures hackers in clean, air-conditioned rooms, working global network magic from a desk. For the Army, though, that’s not enough. If American troops are to prevail against inventive foes in high-tech, close-quarters fights, the hacker elite have to get their boots muddy with the regular grunts. So now the Army’s sending cyber soldiers to…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Fights Culture Gap Between Cyber & Ops: ‘Dolphin Speak’](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2012/08/army-cybersecurity-fort-dix-225x150.jpeg)
ARLINGTON: “We needed to learn to speak infantry,” said Col. William Hartman, commander of the Army’s first offensive cyber operations brigade. That’s not easy. When one of Hartman’s teams joined a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division for an exercise this spring, the colonel recounted, the 25th’s commanding general told Hartman that his cyber operators…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Grapples With Cyber Age Battles In Megacities](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/05/Army-Strykers-in-Baghdad-Iraq-army.mil-2007-05-14-145757-225x150.jpg)
High-tech warfare at knife-fight ranges: that’s the ugly future of urban combat. If you thought Baghdad was bad, with its roughly six million people, imagine a “megacity” of 10 or 20 million, where the slums have more inhabitants than some countries. Imagine a city of the very near future where suspicious locals post every US…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![The Army’s Plan For Cyber, One Bright Spot In Its Budget](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/02/Army-cyber-command-logo-size0-army.mil-87566-2010-10-01-141008-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: In an Army budget outlook that’s otherwise as grim as television tuned to a dead channel, there is one bright spot: cyberspace. “You know, we say that ‘flat is the new growth’ in DoD,” Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. James “Sandy” Winnefeld, said at yesterday’s Bloomberg conference. “[Even] special operations forces”…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Cyber Chief Meets Buyers In Pursuit Of Faster Acquisition](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2013/10/lt.-gen-edward-cardon-225x150.jpg)
AUSA: The Army’s top cyber commander, Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, met with acquisition officials for several days last week eager to find ways to buy capabilities within three years or less. Cardon told reporters at a roundtable here that he wanted to buy “faster, better, quicker” since the cyber realm doesn’t really allow for the…
By Colin Clark