Army

AeroVironment‘s (AV) [AVAV] RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) recently demonstrated 30 hours of persistent surveillance of a point target. The Army SUAS Product Manager and AV at Camp […]

By Geoff Fein The Joint Staff is working a number of challenges, from bringing together the services’ netcentric efforts under one umbrella, to developing data standards, all meant to ensure […]

Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT] recently said it received an Army contract to modify an additional 27 OH-58D helicopters under the Kiowa Warrior Safety Enhancement Program (SEP). The Army has been […]

By Ann Roosevelt Robotics technology could potentially relieve some of the burden on soldiers, who have seen an increased operational tempo over the past several years with no end in […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s major acquisition programs have exceeded their original estimates by $296 billion, a level that has decreased since last year yet still is "staggering" and indicates […]

By Geoff Fein General Dynamics [GD] is relying on open sources for its Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT) to provide the Army with the same type of threats the service […]

By Ann Roosevelt With the release of its Irregular Warfare Vision (IW) this month, U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) has made it a command-wide priority to ensure the joint forces […]

By Ann Roosevelt It is "unlikely the remainder" of the Army’s top modernization program, the $160 billion Future Combat Systems (FCS), in the sixth year of a 10-year program can […]

By Ann Roosevelt Due to ongoing budget discussions the Army will not attend a House Armed Services Committee panel on Air and Land forces this afternoon about the status of […]

By Geoff Fein The Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT), developed by General Dynamics [GD], provides a cyber threat test on friendly force systems for vulnerability analysis and system evaluation. Additionally, […]