Army

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate was prepared to pass a $636.3 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2010 last night, as lawmakers waited to learn if the actual vote […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House is poised to debate this week the defense appropriations bill, which House and Senate lawmakers finalized in public without convening an official conference committee. The […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to pass the long-delayed Pentagon spending bill this week after House and Senate appropriators met last Friday to hash out differences between different […]

By Emelie Rutherford Texas’ U.S. senators have warned they could block the confirmation of the Army’s next acquisition chief if the service does not reconsider its award of the Family […]

By Emelie Rutherford As government auditors prepare to rule in the coming days on whether the Army improperly awarded a truck contract to Oshkosh Corp. [OSK], lawmakers continue to weigh […]

By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates told House lawmakers yesterday the Pentagon will likely buy more than 3,000 additional mine-resistant trucks for the additional troops being sent to Afghanistan. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s top technologist said yesterday he has "concern" about the loss of U.S. industrial base expertise in areas including armor. "We’re going through that analysis now […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army wants soldiers to have universal access to the network no matter where they are and not have to learn new e-mails and battle command systems […]

By Emelie Rutherford Grappling with how to stem increasing U.S. bloodshed in Afghanistan caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced yesterday the creating of a new […]

ATK [ATK] has been awarded a $21 million contract by the U.S. Army Aberdeen Contracting Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to supply various types of non-standard (non-NATO) weapon systems […]