While the world waits for the Army’s full budget picture, service officials provided some details on the funding profile for Future Vertical Lift, IVAS and the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.
By Andrew EversdenEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
With the release of the Pentagon’s FY23 budget request likely only a month or so away, defense experts offered their best guesses about what programs might be on the chopping block.
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The “right solutions” for future conflict must have multi-domain capabilities and be intelligent and interoperable to communicate and transfer data between systems.
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The program, which was rebaselined during Low Rate Initial Production, is now meeting monthly production goals, Jim Schimer, deputy PEO for ground combat systems, told us. But a “gap remains” between what BAE was contracted to supply and what they are supplying.
By Colin Clark
Army Chief of Staff said modernization efforts are “already paying off.”
By Andrew Eversden
The Israeli competition could have an impact on technologies being developed for the US Army’s OMFV.
By Arie Egozi and Aaron Mehta
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing are key enablers for distributed, multi-domain operations.
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“This is a really big deal,” said Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman, director of the Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross-Functional Team. “So far, we’ve learned a lot of great lessons but we think we’re on the right track.” It is very important for the Army to be right this time.
By Colin Clark
Industry is excited about the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Congress and the Biden Administration are a harder sell.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We realize that we may be considered an underdog,” says the company, which has never built a vehicle before, “but that is not going to stop us” — and the Army has explicitly sought out small businesses with big ideas.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Korean company is partnering with US-based Oshkosh. That means at least five teams are now competing to replace the M2 Bradley, a far stronger response than the Army’s first attempt in 2019.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
General Dynamics is offering the Army a design approach — not a specific vehicle — that rigorously examines a wide array of options. The common factors: advanced electronics, open architecture and artificial intelligence.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. BAE’s press release features a shadowy silhouette of a previously unseen vehicle. Could this be BAE’s proposal for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
L3Harris joins Textron and Raytheon on Rheinmetall’s team to refine the heavily armored, high-tech Lynx for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting vehicle competition.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
