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, including one able to deploy launched effects.
The Army has come a long way from experimenting in the desert of White Sands Missile…
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…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army, focused on meeting ambitious climate-related goals, is going to fall short of some of its objectives, including failing to field an all-electric, non-tactical vehicle fleet in the near term. However, the service is making progress in other areas, including rapidly expanding the use of microgrids at installations.
The service in February 2022 released a climate…
WASHINGTON — A CACI International team will spend the coming months refining software and concentrating on “signals of interest” after winning a $1.5 million electronic warfare contract from the U.S. Army.
The service last month tapped CACI-owned Mastodon Design to…
WASHINGTON ― A West African union is considering diplomatic options in response to the July coup in Niger that ousted democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum, the head of Ghana’s Army Staff told Defense News on Monday.
But Maj. Gen. Thomas Oppong-Peprah also…
Apps to drive how soldiers use Army’s ‘mixed reality’ device
October 9, 2023
RESTON, Va. — In the not-too-distant future, soldiers at the lowest tactical level might carry a single device into combat that allows them to navigate, see in thermal or standard night vision, receive orders, fly a microdrone, and provide targeting coordinates for a strike mission.
As batches of the newest version of the Army’s $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System — a combined…
The Army’s new fitness program team will come to you
October 9, 2023
WASHINGTON — The command rolling out the Army’s new, all-encompassing fitness program has a fresh way to get the program’s expertise inside more units.
If an active duty division commander can dedicate a five-soldier team — comprised of one captain, two senior…
WASHINGTON — Expensive, massive tanks destroyed by small and cheap loitering munitions.
Drones helping artillery locate targets.
A battlefield so flooded with sensors that it’s impossible to stay hidden for long.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Army…
WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Christine Wormuth knows she — and the Army — can’t control everything in life.
The Army can’t control childhood obesity rates. The Army can’t control the falling rate of applicants medically or legally eligible to enlist. Nor can the service stop seismic shifts in the labor market, or control the falling percentage of veterans, who are traditionally the most…
