Army

A million dollar international competition challenging research organizations to build fully autonomous ground robots that could operate effectively in military operations was announced yesterday by Australia’s Minister for Defence Personnel, […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s move to modular brigade combat teams (BCT) raises questions about cost, capability, equipment and personnel that the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) wants examined in […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) does not recommending funding a National Program for Small Unit Excellence–developed over the past several months by U.S. Joint Forces Command […]

Canada yesterday said it has approved a potential $856 million upgrade program for the LAV III family of vehicles, and General Dynamics [GD] Land Systems-Canada will be the prime contractor […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senate debate on whether to keep funding in the Pentagon policy bill for aircraft efforts opposed by the Obama administration could start as soon as this week. […]

Cobham yesterday said it has been awarded a five-year, portential $110 million Indefinite Delivery, Definite Quantity (IDDQ) contract from the Army to provide Microclimate Cooling Systems to the Air Warrior […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army is working to revise the concept and architecture of its modernization plans by the fall in the wake of the Defense Department’s late June cancellation […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army and Boeing [BA] are negotiating the changes to come from the reorganization of the Future Combat System (FCS) and termination of the manned ground vehicle […]

AeroVironment (AV) [AVAV] yesterday said it has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved: the controlled hovering flight of an air vehicle system with two flapping wings that carries its […]

By Emelie Rutherford An official overseeing the purchase of new all-terrain mine-resistant trucks said yesterday he is "pretty confident" Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] will build all 5,244 planned vehicles over the […]