Army

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 […]

By Emelie Rutherford Though House-Senate negotiations on the supplemental war-funding bill have slowed, the two sides have agreed to including funding for eight C-17 cargo planes and some but not […]

By Ann Roosevelt WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.–The ability to connect Future Combat Systems (FCS) equipment to a network and pass imagery and data among small unit soldiers and on […]

AeroVironment (AV) (AVAV) yesterday announced cumulative program funding of more than $120 million with the government exercise of an option to build a third Global Observer aircraft for the Joint […]

By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is emerging as a frontrunner to take over the spot of House Armed Services Committee (HASC) ranking member from John McHugh (R-N.Y.), whom […]

By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT], SAIC [SAI], General Dynamics [GD] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] will support U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (JFCOM) joint concept development and experimentation directorate under two […]

By Ann Roosevelt WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.–Technical Field Tests (TFT) are under way for the Army’s most mature Future Combat System (FCS) equipment leading to limited soldier testing in […]

General Dynamics’ [GD] Land Systems-Canada yesterday said it was awarded a contract valued at more than $150 million to General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products to qualify and produce reactive […]

By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) trainers this month are in Djibouti to assess the effectiveness of pre-deployment training for the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army May 19 delivered a $952.8 million list of 18 unfunded requirements for the fiscal year 2010 president’s budget request. The list ranges from $179 million […]