"This arrangement strengthens those commitments and allows us to more easily share information, technologies and processes for greater logistics resiliency," said US Vice Admiral Jeff Jablon.
Over $1 billion would pass through the Pentagon, researching shelf-stable blood for casualties, new lubricants for engines, more powerful explosives, and more. Commission Chairman Sen. Todd Young hopes to get the first funds in the 2026 NDAA.
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The service wants to get the MSV-L into the US Indo-Pacific theater by the April-June timeframe to resume experimentation and follow-on testing.
Complex logistical calculations can take hours or days. With Air Mobility Command’s new ARTIV software, “the run to get all of that data takes between five and 10 minutes," according to retired Gen. Paul Selva, whose company makes the tech.
“For certain use cases, it’s proving to have a lot of value,” said Col. Matt “Nomad” Strohmeyer. “It’s not this panacea, but it’s also not this Pandora’s box of evil. It’s somewhere in between.”
“What we learned was, given the requirements we gave the vendor, it just was going to cost more. ... You don’t want to see that, but it’s going to happen sometimes," Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
KARGO builds on Kaman’s Afghanistan experience with its KMAX cargo UAV while adding new Near Earth Autonomy software to adapt to changing battlefields.
While the Pentagon is still figuring out how to effectively ferry supplies across the Indo-Pacific theater, a top TRANSCOM official warned that the command may not have all the tools it needs to accurately track supplies in transit.
It’s 10,000 kilometers from L.A. to Taipei. How will supplies cross that vast distance in event of war with China? Two RAND experts argue only Congress can force the services to work together.
To deal with the logistics challengers of the modern carrier, the Navy should increase its buy of Ospreys, argues analyst Robbin Laird.
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
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.
The fledgling defense wing of the giant civilian automaker rolled out an all-electric version of its Infantry Squad Vehicle, eying an Army competition for a stealthy electric scout.
Six small companies got $100,000 awards to do an eight-week sprint on ways to move the Army to electric power. Meanwhile, an academic study denounced the Army’s plan for mobile nuclear reactors.
A new strategy paper from Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville says forward-deployed Army forces will survive inside Chinese missile strikes and fatally disrupt the PLA's plans.