Army

BAE Systems this week said it received a $2.6 million Army contract to supply Tensylonr composite armor panels for the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) vehicles. HET vehicles transport, deploy, recover […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program successfully completed evaluations and tests of the initial phases of its network on the way to linking the service to […]

By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.–The latest version of the Army’s heavy-lift helicopter, the CH-47F Chinook,produced by Boeing [BA], is now deployed to meet current operations, according to officials. "Currently, […]

By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.–For the first time, General Dynamics‘ [GD] Stryker vehicles are being delivered to a Heavy Brigade Combat Unit rather than Stryker Brigade Combat Teams. Since […]

For the first time in a decade, the Army has released a new electronic field manual (FM) on electronic warfare: FM 30-36 Electronic Warfare in Operations. Released at last week’s […]

By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.–When the Army is ready to issue a request for proposals for an Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), Boeing [BA] is prepared to offer a version […]

By Ann Roosevelt FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.–The science and technology (S&T) community that focuses on research should keep in mind the Army needs affordable solutions and capabilities that allow the force […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army is ramping up for its portion of the massive review of national defense strategy, force structure and modernization that takes place every four years under […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department’s next-generation biometrics repository that went online in late January is already exceeding the capabilities of the system it replaced and is also showing itself […]