Army

The Army has selected six companies to work on prototypes for a new short-range reconnaissance (SRR) drone small enough to fit in a soldier’s pack, with the goal of moving […]

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In January,  as planned, Boeing [BA] completed a series of six wind tunnel tests on a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company says […]

The Army has moved its land-based hypersonic missile program into experimental prototyping with a focus this year on finalizing launcher and command and control system decisions ahead of a first […]

The U.S. Army’s Cross-Functional Team on Future Vertical Lift is examining an acceleration of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, as the service on April 23 awarded five industry contracts […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $362 million deal from the Army to recapitalize 50 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) launchers, the Pentagon said Monday. The deal is an initial […]

While industry observers had speculated that Bell [TXT] would offer a tiltrotor for the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition, it has instead offered a conventional rotorcraft based […]

NASHVILLE — The attraction of commercial airline pay has lured helicopter pilots away from the U.S. Army, but career incentive pay may help keep them, Maj. Gen. William Gayler, the […]

NASHVILLE — Representatives of Collins Aerospace [UTX] believe that the company’s Vehicle Management Computer may benefit the Army Future Vertical Lift program, the company said during the Army Aviation Association […]

The Army on Friday released a list of communications and electromagnetic spectrum projects the service will go after through the rest of 2019 under its new partnership with the National […]