Army

The Army has selected American Rheinmetall Vehicles and HDT Expeditionary Systems to build prototypes for its Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (S-MET) Increment II program, the next iteration of its cargo-carrying […]

The Army’s latest Future Vertical Lift (FVL)-led Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) focused on the service’s pursuit of new Launched Effects capabilities, gathering data to inform a requirements update planned […]

Arlington, Va.-based AeroVironment [AVAV] said on Monday that the U.S. Army has lifted a stop work order for the company’s Switchblade kamikaze drones under an up to $990 million, five-year […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—L3Harris Technologies [LHX] has leveraged startup firms’ technology advances due to a Shield Capital-L3Harris partnership announced in March, 2022, L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik told reporters at the Air […]

The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]

Anduril Industries is working with prime contractor Microsoft [MSFT] to integrate the startup’s Lattice software into Microsoft’s augmented reality headset being developed for the Army to warn soldiers of autonomously-detected […]

A mobile, ground-based air defense system being developed by Leidos [LDOS] successfully intercepted targets in live testing with the Army, the company said on Tuesday. The Enduring Shield launchers fired […]

The Army is likely to decide “probably next year” whether it will hold a competition for the IVAS Next follow-on effort for the new augmented reality headset, according to the […]

The Army has selected Anduril Industries’ Ghost X and Performance Drone Works’ (PDW) C-100 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to build 48 company-level small drones in the first tranche of a […]

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s airland panel, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have formed the Senate Defense Modernization Caucus as a counterpart to the […]