Army

By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) marked up the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill yesterday, spending most of the daylight hours debating unsuccessful Republican attempts to […]

By Ann Roosevelt Moving Future Combat System (FCS) funds away from the Army budget in the wake of Defense Secretary Gates’ cancellation of the Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV) would endanger […]

By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) is creating a National Program For Small Unit Excellence in response to the demands of the Afghanistan strategy that emphasizes small high- […]

The Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) last week announced that the Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), a critical capability of the JTRS, successfully demonstrated its validated […]

Boeing [BA] said yesterday it received an $18.7 million Army contract to procure long- lead items and related tooling and test equipment to support the initial delivery of early Spin […]

By Emelie Rutherford House authorization panels recommended last Friday changing cost controls for Navy littoral ships, prodding the service to enter into multiyear contracts, and adding monies to the Pentagon’s […]

EADS North America and its subsidiary, American Eurocopter, said they’ve selected five companies to make up the industry team providing components and subsystems for the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter […]

By Ann Roosevelt On Monday, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli hosts a workshop where interested parties will present ideas and information to a blue ribbon panel of […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval subcommittee in Congress said that while he understands the frustration of Republicans who want to compel the Pentagon to produce a shipbuilding […]

By Emelie Rutherford The lead Republican on a House panel preparing to craft its version of the defense budget voiced concern yesterday about the Pentagon’s proposed changes to the Joint […]