WASHINGTON — U.S. Army leaders will head to Capitol Hill after this week’s Association of the U.S. Army conference to share its planned force structure changes, meant to ready the service to fight high-end adversaries, according to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.
“We need to align structure with end strength over the next several years to ensure we can field the right formations and ensure…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is using years’ worth of experimentation with robots and emerging technology to develop integrated fighting formations of both humans and robots, according to service officials in charge of modernization efforts.
“We should never again trade…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army sees opportunities for industry to drive down the cost of producing hypersonic missiles as it helps to grow the industrial base, which was essentially nonexistent roughly five years ago, according to Chris Mills, the deputy director for the…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is pursuing a Stinger missile replacement for short-range air defense that can go faster, survive jamming and more easily hit tougher targets like drones, according to the service’s program executive officer for missiles and space.
The service last month awarded RTX and Lockheed Martin with contracts to competitively develop the Stinger replacement. The…
Combat training centers undergo a generational makeover
October 9, 2023
The Army is overhauling nearly every aspect of its combat training centers with new technology and tools that seek to make the demands of a rotation there as close to actual combat as possible.
In the 1980s, the Army rolled out its AirLand Battle doctrine and fielded major…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s newest cross-functional team will focus on sustaining the force in real time, reducing logistics demands, improving supply distribution and providing power effectively on the battlefield, according to a top service official.
Russia’s…
WASHINGTON — Teledyne FLIR is entering the competition for the Army’s light equipment carrier.
The Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport vehicle, or SMET, is intended to carry gear and light payloads to make soldiers in the field more nimble. Four companies competed for the first generation in 2017, and General Dynamics Land Systems won the first two contracts in 2019 and 2020. The program is…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has for years experimented with high-altitude balloons and long-endurance, fixed-wing, solar-powered platforms capable of operating in the stratosphere. Now the service is pursuing prototyping efforts that could lead to programs of record…
WASHINGTON — The Army’s top general wants to see more and better public transit options for soldiers living on installations across the county, he said Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference.
Gen. Randy George, who was confirmed as the…
WASHINGTON ― U.S. Army commanders overseeing forces in the Indo-Pacific outlined on Monday their work with allies and partners in the region to sustain the supply lines that allow the service to maintain forces throughout the broad, diffuse area.
“This mesh network of friends, partners and allies helps us to accomplish the things that the Army needs to have done,” Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson…
