Army

By Ann Roosevelt The Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday denied protests by Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] and Textron [TXT] of the Army awards of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s Combined Arms Center leads change as the service moves to become more adaptable and flexible in the changing strategic environment, according to the commanding general. […]

By Ann Roosevelt Facing the complexity and uncertainty of military operations in the 21st century, the military must make superiority in irregular warfare a core capability, according to a top […]

By Emelie Rutherford A member of a powerful defense panel in Congress is trying to garner the Army’s feedback on reforming lawmakers’ practice of earmarking funds in legislation for specific […]

By Ann Roosevelt A Northrop Grumman [NOC] land navigation system has been competitively selected for the $10.7 million Phase II work by General Dynamics [GD] Robotic Systems (GDRS) as part […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department late last month formally turned on its new biometric database that features multimodal storage and matching capabilities as well as fusion technology that further […]

By Geoff Fein A January review of 41 major acquisition programs by Pentagon acquisition chief John Young showed that a number of programs were impacted by a variety of issues […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s nine new Battlefield Surveillance Brigades (BFSB) are building up and the first is deemed successful in performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) work in Iraq, […]

QinetiQ is extending its family of robots with the unveiling of the Talon IV Engineer robot, to continue to meet the ever-changing demands of detecting and clearing mines, unexploded ordnance […]

BAE Systems yesterday announced the opening of a new facility that will produce armor kits under Army and Marine contracts totaling $34 million to protect Army ground vehicles. The 33,000-square-foot […]