Defense

The U.S. Army has unveiled a whitepaper detailing how the service plans to shrink the force in some places and grow it in other areas. The document’s release on Tuesday comes as the Army continues transitioning from counterinsurgency missions to large-scale combat operations against technologically advanced adversaries, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth explained at a Feb. 27 event in Washington…

DENVER, Colo. — The Air Force’s desired adaptations to Boeing’s E-7A battlefield management aircraft are proving to be harder than expected and complicating price negotiations, top service officials said Tuesday. “We’re having a hard time with [the E-7 program], getting price agreement with Boeing,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters in a roundtable at the Air and Space…

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy is incorporating lessons learned from its Red Sea engagements with Houthi missiles and drones, and are using them to improve tactics for seeing and eliminating threats, service leaders said Tuesday. Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, said U.S. ships in the Red Sea are sending data about their engagements with Houthi threats back to the…

Defense industry analysts said it has long been clear the Army needed to end its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program. Indeed, concerns about the program came before the war in Ukraine and as drones became commonplace on battlefields throughout the world. And so when the service announced last week it would cancel its multibillion-dollar scout helicopter program, just weeks before the…