"This award reflects the growing demand for loitering munitions and validates the operational value of the HERO 120 and the HERO family of systems," CEO of Uvision Group Ran Gozali said in a press release.
“Microsoft fully intends and is prepared to compete for IVAS Next. We remain committed to delivering the industry’s best capabilities for our warfighters,” a company spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Latest version of the AStRA competition will focus on networking tools and power sources.
The Next Generation Squad Weapons program is one of the Army's 35 modernization priorities.
Army emphasized it "remains committed" to the $21 billion-plus program.
The Integrated Visual Augmentation System, part of a $21.88 billion contract, will now have its operational test in May 2022.
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
After skeptical staffers slammed the IVAS targeting goggles, the Army generals responsible have been emphasizing their solicitousness towards Congress.
The Army plans to deploy more of the thermal sensors, originally developed to spot targets at night.
Army foot soldiers are going into battle with more and more electronics, wirelessly networked both to each other and to distant command posts. So can GI Joe be hacked?
This kind of effort to get fighter-jock technology to ordinary grunts -- who do most of the fighting and dying -- has enjoyed some high-profile attention in the last 12 months. The efforts cover everything from developing a new, more powerful longer-range rifle to buying off-the-shelf quadcopters, from adding VR training simulations to eliminating tedious safety lectures.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
The Army is just weeks away from awarding contracts to begin buying prototypes of new infantry weapons, with live-fire tests next year.
"It's very encouraging," McCarthy said. "It gives you high confidence in some of these investments we're going to make....We've got these decisions coming up here by the middle of the summer for the POM 20" -- the five-year budget plan (Program Objective Memorandum) for 2020-25.
WASHINGTON: “Everybody’s got to change,” Army Gen. David Perkins told me last week. But can the biggest, most bureaucratic, and most fractious service really break a 12-year streak of cancelled multi-billion-dollar programs? It turns out the Army is already taking some important steps. A new doctrine and a long-range planning process instituted two years ago have begun to […]
WASHINGTON: Special operations types — like those who found and killed Osama bin Laden –may stand tall and do amazing things sometimes, but they tend to be fairly plain spoken. You rarely hear them say something is “astounding,” especially a new weapon. For example, one special operator recently awarded the Silver Star said he would […]