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…
US Army narrows focus to one robotic combat vehicle
October 9, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has adjusted its pursuit of three robotic combat vehicles of different sizes, instead moving forward with a single size that fits the mission needs and can keep up with crewed combat vehicles, according to the service’s program executive…
Gen. Randy George begins his tenure leading the Army as it faces a period of rapid change, competition with adversaries across the globe and a strained force. The new chief of staff intends to fuel that fight by distilling the complex set of challenges facing the force into…
WASHINGTON — Leonardo DRS successfully demonstrated its On Board Vehicle Power system, which can route electrical power from a vehicle to a weapon system, in a recent U.S. Army operational user assessment focused on battlefield power generation and management, the company announced Monday.
The OBVP system integrates with an Allison transmission and generates electrical power that can be routed…
WASHINGTON — Discipline works in mysterious ways.
“Hold on a second here,” said Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer at the start of a Sept. 29 interview with Army Times. “I’m just going to touch up a little bit.”
An electric razor’s gentle buzz emanated…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is well on its way to widespread, secure use of cloud computing capabilities following what the service’s new chief information officer characterized as a “really hard sprint.”
The Army considers cloud migration and adoption fundamental to…
Army aviators and ground commanders face challenges of farther distances to travel, enemy systems that can strike aircraft and ground forces and a very crowded airspace.
A combination of efforts happening at multiple centers of excellence — which are responsible for establishing protocols across specific areas — seeks to tackle those problems, though not without some challenges.
The commander…
WASHINGTON — Command posts must become nimbler and better networked over greater distances to prevent an enemy from targeting them and killing soldiers, according to U.S. Army leaders closely watching Russia’s assault on Ukraine for lessons in warfare.
Command posts of…
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…
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 “resourced each major component, material or required production process to maintain momentum for the goal of 80,000 projectiles…
