Army
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ArmyDraft House Bill Proposes Fully Funding Army’s Long-Range Precision Fires Request, Increased Stryker Upgrade Spending
The House Appropriations Committee’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget would fully fund development of the Army’s top modernization priority, long-range precision fires, and increase spending required to upgrade Stryker vehicles […]
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ArmyCBO: Annual Cost of Replacing Army Aircraft Could Peak at Nearly $5 Billion
Starting at about $4 billion a year in 2018, replacing the Army’s 4,300 aircraft will become less expensive over the next decade before shooting up to nearly $5 billion a […]
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ArmyHASC Member Presses Army on Supply Chain Impact of Delaying Chinook Block II Upgrades
A House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member pushed the Army’s likely next chief of staff to consider the potential supply chain impact of delaying upgrades to the service’s CH-47F Chinook […]
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ArmyArmy Must Accept More Risk To Avoid Past Modernization Missteps, Futures Command Leader Says
The commander of Army Futures Command said Tuesday the service must be willing to accept more risk, including potential program failures, to implement the new multi-domain operating concept and avoid […]
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ArmyArmy’s New Air And Missile Defense Strategy To Improve Operational Flexibility, Protection Of Maneuver Forces
The Army’s new air and missile defense framework is intended to give commanders more flexibility to better protect assets and maneuver forces with the new battle command platform, sensors and […]
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InternationalCzechs Cleared to Buy More Than $1 Billion in Attack, Utility Helicopters
The State Department has cleared the Czech Republic to buy more than $1 billion in Bell [TXT] AH-1Z attack helicopters and Sikorsky [LMT] UH-60 Black Hawks. Larger of the two […]
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ArmyMcConville: Continuing Resolution Would Delay 118 Army Programs
The Army’s vice chief of staff told a Senate panel Thursday a potential continuing resolution (CR) to fund the service in fiscal year 2020 would affect 118 programs, including delays […]
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ArmyTextron Shadow Block 3 Upgrade in Flight Tests
Textron [TXT] is flight testing a new Block 3 version of its AAI-developed RQ-7 Shadow UAS, which the U.S. Army has been using for 20 years and, according to Textron, […]
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ArmyArmy Halting Block II Chinook Production to ‘Assess’ Operational Worth
Army officials are defending the decision to “halt” buying the Block II version of the CH-47F Chinook as they consider developing an eventual replacement for the tandem-rotor helicopter. Service acquisition […]
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ArmyNorthrop Grumman Delivers First IBCS Engagement Operations Center To Army
Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered the first production-representative operations center for the Army’s future integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) command system, ahead of a operational test in 2020 and […]