A House Armed Services Committee panel is seeking information from the Army on plans to increase the rate of fire for its future Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) howitzer system, including the service’s pursuit of an autoloader or “alternative technologies.” The HASC Tactical Air and ...

The Army has fielded the first five UH-60V Black Hawks, which a retrofit of the UH-60L upgraded with Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] ‘digital cockpit’ suite and its first aircraft to implement an open system architecture. The Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s Eastern ARNG Aviation Training Site ...

A House Armed Services Committee (HASC) panel has proposed requiring the Army to brief lawmakers on the service’s plans for electrification of its ground vehicle fleet and pursuit of an advanced combat engine for the future Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.  The HASC Tactical Air and Land ...

Oshkosh Defense [OSK] said Monday its concept for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) competition will leverage the design of the Redback infantry fighting vehicle chassis manufactured by South Korea’s Kanwha, one of its partners for the program. The Wisconsin-based ...

The Army announced Friday it has selected General Dynamics Land Systems [GD], Oshkosh Defense [OSK], BAE Systems, Rheinmetall and armor supplier Point Blank Enterprises to work on refining their concepts for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program.  Nearly $300 million in contracts ...

Collins Aerospace [RTX] sees the U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter and other military systems as opportunities for its Perigon flight control computer, which the company announced this week and which is to have at least 20 times the processing power of current Collins ...