Army

The head of military efforts to detect and destroy improvised explosives is winding up a trip to Baghdad where he took measure of how the U.S. can help Iraqi security […]

NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told Defense Daily. Kirk Woellert, […]

Army leaders are experimenting with ways to combine existing vehicles with conventional weapons already in the service’s arsenal as an option for boosting infantry firepower and mobility. Last week two senior […]

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. – Every member of the 60-nation coalition fighting Islamic State (ISIL) militants in Iraq and Syria is being asked to up its contribution and many have […]

The Army is collecting information on existing vehicles and technologies that could fit the bill for a Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) vehicle to improve the long-range firepower capabilities of infantry […]

Battelle has won a $170 million contract to build armored pickup trucks for U.S. Special Operations Command. The company already holds a contract for SOCOM’s non-standard commercial vehicles (NSCV), trucks […]

The Department of the Army designated U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) as an Army Service Component Command (ASCC) on July 11, the Army said Friday. This designation, signed by Secretary […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Friday tossed its hat into the still-unofficial program to develop an upgrade to Patriot missile defense radars. The Army on July 6 issued a request for […]

Lt. Gen. Michael Williamson, the Army’s senior uniformed weapons buyer and chief of its acquisition force on Thursday made a clear, concise case for the implementation of open architectures in […]

The Army plans to award a contract in September to a commercial computing company that will consolidate 11 of its physical data centers into a single data-storage cloud. Under a […]