Army

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate passed a $626 billion fiscal year 2010 Pentagon appropriations bill last night by a 93-7 margin after rejecting an attempt to delete from it 10 […]

By Calvin Biesecker Britain’s Chemring Group has introduced a new variant of its ground penetrating radar mine, detection system that can be mounted on a small unmanned ground vehicle for […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate neared final passage of the defense appropriations bill last night after accepting amendments including one requiring the Pentagon report to Congress on ground-based interceptor missiles. […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers continued debating the Pentagon’s two budget bills yesterday, hashing out whether to include controversial funding for C-17 cargo aircraft and a second engine for the F-35 […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy last week awarded ATK [ATK] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] $30 million each to design, develop and demonstrate a prototype for an advanced missile warning system […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate confirmed Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as the next Army secretary on Wednesday night, clearing the way for him to be sworn in as the service’s […]

By Emelie Rutherford The top U.S. military officer told lawmakers additional reforms to Pentagon weapons-development processes are being considered, and called for a requirements-setting board to focus more on combatant […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon increased its requirement for a new breed of all-terrain mine-resistant trucks by 1,400 vehicles late last week as U.S. troops in Afghanistan face an increasing […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon, in a second round of appeals to defense authorization legislation, is pushing back on lawmakers’ cuts to its requests for a new Humvee-replacement vehicle, ship […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate panel approved Pentagon spending legislation yesterday that heeds many of the Obama administration’s big program cuts while also boosting funds for additional mine-proof vehicles […]