The head of Army Futures Command said Monday it’s “too early to say” if the Biden administration will look to adjust the service’s modernization plans, while adding he’s confident the Army will be able to stick with its full slate of future weapon systems programs facing a tighter budget ...

Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing [BA] on Monday detailed their new Defiant X aircraft, the company’s updated offering for the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to find a UH-60 Black Hawk replacement. The co-axial rigid rotor Defiant X builds on the SB>1 Defiant ...

Leonardo DRS said Thursday it has received its first order under a five-year, $600 million deal to supply the mission equipment packages that General Dynamics [GD] will integrate on Stryker vehicles for the Army’s Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) program, with deliveries to ...

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy resigned from his post Wednesday as the Biden administration was sworn in, with John Whitley, the service’s comptroller, to take over in an acting capacity. McCarthy, who has steered the Army’s extensive modernization overhaul over the last several years, wrote in ...

The Navy program manager for unmanned systems said new unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) will have a range of manning as they are being developed. “Our Medium USV [MUSV] prototype is essentially unmanned. There’s… a pilot house but no accommodations,” Capt. Pete Small, Unmanned Maritime ...

Army Chief Of Staff Gen. James McConville said Tuesday the service won’t “have a dollar to waste” as it pushes ahead with its more than 30 signature modernization programs while facing a tighter budget environment in the coming years. Beyond divesting of legacy systems, McConville said he ...