WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is pausing its efforts to field replacement software for the F-35′s troubled logistics system due to a lack of funding, the head of the F-35 program office said Thursday.
In 2020, the F-35 program executive office announced plans to develop a replacement for the Lockheed Martin-made Autonomic Logistics Information System currently used by maintenance…
Recruits line up after arriving on board Fort McCoy, a U.S. Army training center in western Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020. Recruit Training Command (RTC), Great Lakes, Ill., is working with the Army at Fort McCoy to establish a restriction of movement (ROM) site for Navy…
US Army bracing for budget hit next year
April 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is bracing for a possible large budget cut in fiscal 2022, a defense official told Defense News.
The service is preparing contingencies should it face a “huge cut,” which means the Army would potentially have to put modernization and…
MELBOURNE, Australia – The first Northrop-Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aircraft destined for Japan took its maiden flight in the United States last week, as the Asian country ramps up its intelligence gathering capability to monitor North Korean and Chinese military activities.
In a news release, Northrop-Grumman said the high-altitude, long endurance drone conducted its maiden flight…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well as in future systems, Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s Long-Range Precision…
Two divers with the 511th Engineer Dive Detachment set charges to blow notional mines, Feb. 10, 2017, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The Soldiers were tested on their troop leading procedures, as well as their knowledge of setting up explosives on land, during this training…
US senators propose roadblock for F-35 sale to UAE
April 17, 2021
WASHINGTON ― A duo of Democratic senators offered a bill Friday that could block the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates after the Biden administration acknowledged it is advancing the Trump-era deal.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would require the administration make a raft of assurances and…
WASHINGTON — The deadline to submit a preliminary design for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) is April 16, but the cutoff marks not the time for industry officials to put pencils down, but rather the time to pick them up.
Among the companies that…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has yet to schedule a limited-user test for the latest variant of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, instead ordering its return to flight testing to gather more data. But despite issues cropping up in previous testing, Boeing is confident it will win…
The Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville gives a speech at the promotion ceremony for Col. Adisa King March 5, 2021 at Fort Campbell, Ky. (Jacob Wachob/U.S. Army)
The Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville on Monday defended the service’s efforts to develop long-range precision missiles after an Air Force general in charge of global strike missions recently criticized the effort as…
