With greater lift and increased commonality, the Army’s heavy-lift helicopter just keeps getting better.
By Boeing“Unfortunately, some of the Army’s signature modernization efforts, as spectacular as they are, don’t work with the other signature modernization efforts,” said Ed Mornston, G2 at Army Futures Command.
By Theresa HitchensThe parent company has pledged to invest $35 billion through 2025 for investments in electric and autonomous vehicles.
By Andrew EversdenThe United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain could ultimately involve buying in excess of 3,200 new heavy armored platforms, with a price tag of over $11.5 billion over the next 15 years.
By Tim FishThe ability to directly access remote sensing satellite data for targeting has long been a Holy Grail for the Army.
By Theresa HitchensKratos is disrupting the traditional procurement model by learning what the customer wants and developing it long before the Request for Proposal.
By Barry Rosenberg“It’s fair to say we are looking at everything,” said Christine Wormuth, the secretary of the Army.
By Andrew EversdenThe Israeli competition could have an impact on technologies being developed for the US Army’s OMFV.
By Arie Egozi and Aaron MehtaA newly configured plane — which they’re calling ARTEMIS 2.0 — is expected to be ready in March 2022, Leidos says. This comes after two extensive deployments to both the Pacific and European theaters, flying more than 569 mission hours and boasting an impressive readiness rate of more than 90 percent in 2020.
By Colin ClarkAUSA: Raytheon Missiles & Defense announced today a new medium range radar for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) with extended range and altitude coverage. The new radar, known as GhostEye MR, is a variant of the company’s GhostEye, Raytheon’s new name for its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor under development for…
By Andrew Eversden“The point is, that it is Asia that is the prize. We call it the Pacific, but Asia is the prize,” argues Maj. Gen. Brad Gericke, the Army’s director for strategy, plans and policy. “And that’s where power, that’s where economic, military social informational power is going to primarily emanate from over the next century.”
By Colin ClarkWhat Army leaders want out of future battlefield systems is a stable hardware enabled by powerful software that makes it easy to upgrade, integrate accessories and accomplish their tasks.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.Lockheed hopes to unseat an incumbent team of Raytheon and Kord Technologies, which received a $123.9 million contract this summer.
By Valerie Insinna
A “myopia for the Pacific too often overlooks, to America’s peril, Russia and its growing land forces,” warns Dan Goure in this op-ed.
By Daniel Goure