Army

The Army has doubled maintainer training for its new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles from 40 to 80 hours to address earlier concerns soldiers experienced while working on fixes to the […]

The U.S. Army’s development of more modern cockpits and a digital pilot-vehicle interface for legacy UH-60L Black Hawks is progressing, showing positive performance increasing pilot awareness similarly to the UH-60M […]

General Electric’s [GE] big win in the race to re-engine U.S. Army attack and utility helicopters will support jobs in at least 12 states, including 100 engineering positions at the […]

General Electric [GE] has prevailed in its bid to develop a drop-in replacement engine for the U.S. Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters with a half-billion-dollar engineering contract […]

The Army is moving ahead with its Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle effort after releasing a draft request for proposals Thursday, which includes plans to award two vendors prototype development contracts […]

The Army on Friday launched its new Artificial Intelligence Task Force, which will fall under the new Futures Command and look to develop AI applications for the full spectrum of […]

There are too few Afghan Air Force pilots to operate a new fleet of UH-60 Black Hawks as they are delivered and no plan in place for teaching maintainers to […]

The Army is looking to reach initial operational capability for its Synthetic Training Environment program by September 2021, and has asked industry to focus on virtualized direct fire and short-range […]

The SB-1 Defiant has begun spinning rotors in West Palm Beach, Fla., where the Sikorsky [LMT]-Boeing [BA] team is readying the compound helicopter prototype for its first flight early this […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Tuesday it has received $18 million to develop the Army’s first electronic warfare pod to provide jamming capabilities on unmanned aerial systems. The Army awarded Lockheed […]