Here’s the Army’s 24 programs in soldiers’ hands by 2023
The Army boasts that about two-thirds of its modernization priority programs will be in various stages of prototyping by fiscal 2023.
Army Could Test New Ramjet Weapon From Boeing Next Summer
"The farther it flies, the faster it flies, because it's scooping up more oxygen, and that also helps you to avoid detection," a Boeing executive said of the Ramjet design.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile Enters Next Phase with Army
Lockheed Martin received $62 million for the engineering phase of PrSM following a successful milestone B evaluation.
ERCA: Army Contracts To Help New Cannon ‘Fire Faster’
Five small businesses won SBIR Phase II awards to build robotic arms to handle shells, software to manage ammo inventory, and other prototype technologies.
Can Army Triple PrSM Missile’s Range ?
PrSM is preparing for its first 300-plus-mile flight test this year, while the ERCA cannon and hypersonic LRHW head for key tests in 2023.
Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023
“In my career, certainly this is the most amount of modernization I’ve seen,” Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson says. Can multiple Army programs make their 2023 deadline?
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Meeting Zero Trust goals while maintaining information dominance
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
Army Outlines Ambitious Schedule For Robots, Armor
The Army is testing the MPF light tank; evaluating concepts for the OMFV troop carrier; preparing for major tests of high-tech Robotic Combat Vehicles and workhorse Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles in 2022; and will test a full battalion of 18 ERCA howitzers in 2023.
LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21
Weapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army’s ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.
Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021
Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range -- once they find a venue that's big enough.
Army Seeks New Mid-Range Missile Prototype By 2023
Meant to target Chinese warships and Russia’s rear bases, the new intermediate-range missile will fill the gap between the 500+ km PrSM and the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon.
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How TAK gives the US military an advantage at the Edge
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
Army Says Long Range Missiles Will Help Air Force, Not Compete
The military services are working together on how to use long-range, land-based missiles to destroy enemy anti-aircraft defenses, says the director of artillery modernization at Army Futures Command.
Army Tests PrSM Seeker To Hunt Ships & SAMs
The brand new missile seeker can home in on radio and radar, which means it can also target anti-aircraft defenses – blasting a path through them for US airpower.
Army Invites Air Force ABMS To Big Network Test: Project Convergence
This fall’s experiment will study how the Army’s own weapons can share target data, Gen. Murray said, but in 2021 he wants to add the Air Force’s ABMS network.
Project Convergence: Linking Army Missile Defense, Offense, & Space
The Army wants to do a tech demonstration in the southwestern desert – COVID permitting – of how the new weapons systems it’s developing can share data.