Army
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ArmyCombat Vehicle Companies Flock To Detroit To Pitch Stryker Upgrades
Representatives from major combat vehicle and component manufacturers will converge next week on Detroit Arsenal in Michigan, where they will each get an hour to sell Army officials on upgrades […]
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ArmyArmy Launches $5 Billion Competition To Upgrade All Computers With Commercially Available Replacements
The Army on Wednesday launched a $5 billion competition to replace all of its personal computers with commercially available replacements that can be regularly upgraded over the next decade. Called […]
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ArmyArmy Addressing Vulnerabilities In Artillery, UAS Demonstrated By Russia
The Army is rushing to plug holes in its arsenal with technologies it neglected to develop because it didn’t need during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but will require […]
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ArmyU.S. Army Awards Longbow A $57 Million Contract For Indian Fire Control Radars
The LONGBOW LLC won a $57 million U.S. Army Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to provide the Indian Air Force with Fire Control Radar (FCR) systems for new AH-64E Apache […]
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ArmyExcessive Helicopter Weight Challenges Army Aviation
ATLANTA–The increasing weight of Army helicopters has become such a problem a key officer believes it is limiting, as opposed to providing, options to a commander. U.S. Army Aviation […]
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ArmyArmy Gen. Scaparotti Takes Over Enforcement Of Russian Deterrence In Europe
Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove on Tuesday handed over his duties as Supreme Allied Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe to Army Gen. Curtis Scaparotti, who will undertake […]
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ArmyArmy Still Deciding On Which FVL Capability Set To First Pursue
ATLANTA–The Army has yet to decide which Future Vertical Lift (FVL) capability set it will pursue first, but the service could get closer to that decision in the fall. Richard […]
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ArmyBell Helicopter Mates V-280 Wing To Fuselage
ATLANTA—Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] achieved a major milestone in its V-280 tilt rotor aircraft development on April 21 when it mated the wing to the fuselage. Bell Director of Advanced […]
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ArmyHASC Defense Bill Increases Army Apache, Black Hawk Helicopter Procurement
The House Armed Service Committee (HASC) is seeking to restore, with war funding, some of the deep cuts the Army plans to make to helicopter procurement to pay for near-term […]
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Air ForceHASC Approves $610 Billion Defense Authorization Bill, Adding Nine More Russian Rocket Engines
After a long markup ending early Thursday morning, the House Armed Services Committee moved forward a $610 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2017 that mostly kept acquisition programs safe […]