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What’s the firepower like for the Army’s new rifle?

October 6, 2023

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The Army’s new rifle, automatic rifle and fire control provide a more accurate, farther reaching and deadlier combination of weapons than a squad or platoon currently carries. During a September media event held at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland by Program Executive Office Soldier, participants shot both the Next Generation Squad Weapon XM7 rifle and the…

US Army awards $1.5B to boost global production of artillery rounds

October 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army said it awarded $1.5 billion in contracts to nine companies in the U.S., Canada, India and Poland to boost global production of 155mm artillery rounds. Over the last two weeks in September, the service finalized a flurry of contracts that…

How Australia’s strategic review is changing Army acquisition plans

October 6, 2023

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Army will now receive less Redback infantry fighting vehicles than planned as the government redirects funding for that effort toward long-range strike systems and littoral maneuver craft. The government’s recent Defence Strategic…

US Army seeks cheap, user-friendly radios amid network changes

October 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army plans to buy a large quantity of relatively cheap, intuitive radios for future soldier networking amid a move away from brigade-centric fighting and a related communications overhaul concentrated on the much larger division. The service’s Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical is eyeing the end of the year to publish a request for…

Electronic warfare training is headed to an Army school near you

October 6, 2023

Future Army ground unit commanders will have nearly instant, possibly deadly, feedback on whether they followed the right steps or if they revealed themselves on the electronic battlefield. That’s the message that the commanding general over the Army’s Cyber Center of…

Anduril unveils Anvil-M counter-drone kit that can defeat smaller UAS

October 5, 2023

WASHINGTON — Anduril Industries unveiled a detonating variant of its Anvil drone it said is capable of intercepting and obliterating nimble overhead threats. The company, which specializes in autonomy and unmanned aerial systems, said the new Anvil-M was built using input…

Can the US Navy save money by accepting the LCS as a sunk cost?

October 4, 2023

WASHINGTON — It’s been called an “entirely new breed of U.S. Navy warship” and a “lemon.” A “mothership” for unmanned systems and “the wrong ship at the wrong time.” A cornerstone of the Navy’s “transformation” and the “little crappy ship.” This is the littoral combat ship, which in its 22-year history has never been easy to label. That is until recently; the LCS has…

Army accepts delayed next-gen engine for future attack recon aircraft

October 4, 2023

WASHINGTON — The Army has accepted the first of its long-delayed next-generation engine, which is set to power the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft as well as AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, the service announced Oct. 4. The second T901…

Wittman lukewarm on Air Force plan to ‘quickstart’ programs

October 4, 2023

WASHINGTON — A leading House lawmaker is downplaying the value of an Air Force and Pentagon proposal that would allow services to start working on new programs before Congress officially passes a budget funding them. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., told Defense News last week he…

Wittman says patience wearing thin on F-35 sustainment plan

October 3, 2023

WASHINGTON — A leading House lawmaker wants to see some hard details — and soon — from the F-35 Joint Program Office about how it plans to fix the jet fighter’s long-lagging availability rates. And Rep. Rob Wittman’s patience with the JPO on the fighter’s low readiness is starting to wear thin, he said in an interview. RELATED Upgraded F-35 deliveries could slip to June…