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Army Leaders Call For Fully Funded Modernization To Meet Peer Competition, Including Russia’s ‘Existential Threat’
Army senior leadership told a House panel on Tuesday the service’s plan to shift over $30 billion toward fully funding development of future weapon systems over the next five years […]
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U.S. Army Plans to Divest All Alpha-Model Black Hawks by 2024
The U.S. Army plans to get rid of all its UH-60 A-model Black Hawks from the National Guard by fiscal year 2022 and the active duty force by 2024, a […]
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Army’s Retooled Rapid Capabilities Office To Focus On Hypersonics, Directed Energy And Space Technologies
The head of the Army’s newly retooled rapid capabilities office said senior leadership has tasked his organization with a focus to specifically deliver emerging hypersonics, directed energy and low-Earth orbit […]
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Army Releases RFP For Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle
The Army released a Request for Proposal on Friday for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), officially opening the competition for the Bradley replacement program, with plans to award prototype […]
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Army Selects Two Companies for RQ-7 Shadow Replacement
The Army has chosen two companies to produce unmanned aircraft systems to replace the RQ-7 Shadow scout drone in use since 2001. The service selected Martin UAV and Textron [TXT] […]
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Boeing Wants to Field Upgraded Compound Apache by 2028
Boeing [BA] has conducted wind tunnel testing of a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company believes it could field by 2028 to […]
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Army Releases New Air And Missile Defense Framework
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. –The Army on Wednesday released a new framework for its future approach to air and missile defense with the goal of synchronizing modernization efforts and providing maneuver forces […]
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JLTV Reduction To Happen Over FYDP, Officials Planning Program Assessment For 2020
Army officials this week clarified that a reduction to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program will result in slowing down the planned buy over the next five years while […]
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Chinook Block II Makes First Flight, But Without New Rotor Blades
Without the added lift of the new advanced composite rotor blades it eventually will sport, the first CH-47 Chinook Block II test aircraft achieved first flight March 28 at Boeing’s […]
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Army To Drop Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle RFP On Friday
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–The Army is expected to release the final request for proposals on Friday for its Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OFMV), the program to replace its Bradleys, a lead official […]