Army
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ArmyPublic-Private Partnership For Humvees Moves Out, Major Plus For National Guard
AM General on Wednesday received a $90.5 million contract to produce 760 essentially new Army National Guard High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (Humvees) to move the Guard faster and more safely, while […]
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ArmyU.K. Army 2020 Plan For Smaller Force Is Risky, National Audit Office Says
The U.K. National Audit Office (NAO) reports that the Ministry of Defense (MoD) decision to execute Army 2020, the program to reduce the size of the regular Army while beefing […]
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ArmyArmy, Lockheed Martin Successful In New Autonomous Truck Convoy Tests
The Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] June 10 said they successfully completed new tests validating the ability of driverless military-truck convoys to operate […]
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ArmyHouse Appropriators Support Army Aviation Restructure–To A Point
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC)-passed fiscal year 2015 defense appropriations bill supports the Army aviation restructure initiative–to a point–and that point is: forget getting rid of any of the 182 […]
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ArmyDoD Should Postpone IAMD Initial Production Decision Until Testing Completes, IG Audit Says
A Defense Department Inspector General’s (DoD IG) audit report finds that the Army could be spending more than $400 million on its Integrated Air and Missile Defense Program (IAMD) that […]
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ArmyFull Support, Plus Reports on AMPV Recommended In HAC Draft Report
The House Appropriations Committee recommends full funding–$92.3 million–for the Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program in the draft version of the FY ’15 2015 House Defense Appropriations Bill. The congressional […]
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ArmyDraft HAC Report Would Add Funds To Support Army Testing of Degraded Visual Environment Equipment
The House Appropriations Committee recommends adding $20 million to Army accounts to help the land force solve the problems of helicopters coping with degraded visual environment such as heavy dust […]
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ArmyArmy To Hold Tactical Network Industry Seminar Next Month
The Army plans a tactical network related Industry Seminar July 15 at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Md., and recommended both business development and technical staff attend. The seminar, announced June […]
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ArmyNATO Land Forces Losing Combat Capacity, New Essay Finds
NATO has no equal in terms of gross domestic product and has the world’s largest aggregate defense sector, but declining defense budgets and dwindling public support for complex foreign deployments […]
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ArmyProtecting Ballistic Missile Technology Starts With Cyber, Army General Says
Ensuring effective cyber defenses are in place to help contain the proliferation of technologies that could contribute to enemy capabilities is one way to prevent the danger at a time […]