Army

The National Armaments Directors of Germany, Italy and the United States yesterday approved a contract amendment that funds two flight intercept tests of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), […]

The military service chiefs gave dire warnings yesterday about cuts to weapons programs and harm to the defense industrial base coming if congressional inaction spurs roughly $1 trillion in Pentagon budget […]

Nothing has been ruled out for budget cutting as yet because there is no budget and almost everything is speculation, the Army secretary said. However, “some things we owe to […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it has successfully completed formal qualification testing of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Mobile Basic software baseline being developed for the Army. DCGS-A Mobile […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday said its PAC-3 Missile successfully detected, tracked and intercepted an aerodynamic tactical ballistic missile target yesterday in a flight test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.  […]

The Army has begun the second of a planned biannual series of Network Integration Evaluations (NIE) examining a series of network and non-network capabilities in realistic scenarios to see how […]

As the defense appropriations conference with the Senate comes closer, 46 House members are urging the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee to hold to the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it received a $124 million follow-on award to provide personnel for expanded operations of Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) sense-and-warn systems in Afghanistan and Iraq. […]

The Army Chief of Staff’s Unified Quest 2012 Future Study Plan is under way and aims to help senior leaders determine the challenges and opportunities and provide insights and recommendations […]

The Army now has its eighth project office–the Project Manager for Fixed Wing Aircraft–under the Program Executive office Aviation at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Col. Brian Tachias Oct. 28 assumed responsibilities […]