A UH-60 Black hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Hawaii on Aug. 16, prompting a search and rescue effort by the Army and Coast Guard that is ongoing. Two Army Black Hawks were conducting training flights about two miles offshore of Kaena Point on the island of Oahu, when communications to one of the […]
ABERDEEN TEST CENTER, Md. – Watching a Stryker punch 30mm holes through an armored truck at 1,000 yards, it is hard to believe the cannon-toting infantry vehicle was not much more than a PowerPoint presentation 18 months ago. Now, the infantry carrier vehicle “Dragoon” (ICVD) – as the Army has dubbed the upgunned Stryker – […]
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $161 million production contract for the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which the Army plans to use as an initial “cross-domain” capability to fire from land on targets at sea and in the air. The missiles will be produced at Lockheed’s Precision Fires Production Center of Excellence in Camden, […]
Lockheed Martin [LMT] last Friday took home an $8 billion contract order on a large indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with global logistics support. As incumbent, Lockheed carried the competition for global logistics support services (GLSS) from four other competitors for the rebid. Lockheed holds the initial GLSS contract awarded in […]
The Army is gearing up to embed cyber soldiers within the staffs of all operational commanders to provide them options to attacks with both bullets and bytes. Maj. Gen. John B. Morrison Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon, Ga., is overseeing the effort launched by Army Cyber, […]
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered the first Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) unit to the Army from the company’s new production facility in Camden, Ark. Lockheed is under contract to deliver 124 new ATACMS missiles to the Army and an unnamed international customer. The ATACMS program is in full-rate production at Lockheed’s Precision Fires Production Center of […]
The Army could find the answer to its lack of mobile short-range air defense (SHORAD) in a couple of existing platforms that General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems, with the help of Boeing [BA], have mashed together into a new vehicle. By cutting the back off of a Stryker Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) variant and mounting […]
The Army is standardizing its mission command software across the active and reserve component to simplify the network architecture of operational units. Over the next two years, the Army will provide standard, updated mission command software applications to all 400-plus operational units in an effort to reduce network complexity, standardize training, allow swifter software updates […]
SIG SAUER has issued a voluntary recall for the civilian version of the Army’s new handgun to correct a defect that causes the pistols to fire when dropped from certain heights and angles. The P320 is the civilian version of the M17, which the Army chose to replace the Beretta M9 as its standard sidearm earlier […]
The Defense Department has issued guidance on how to deal with unauthorized commercial drones flying over U.S. military bases, though just how troops are able to shoot them down or disable the unmanned aircraft remains classified. “Protecting our force remains a top priority,” Pentagon Spokesman Lt. Col. Jamie Davis wrote in an Aug. 7 statement. “That […]
