The Army’s Project Origin robots have already changed the battlefield in exercises, but the office running the program says they’re just getting started.
As the Army charges ahead with its signature modernization programs, Army Materiel Command is about to kick off its own sprawling plan to upgrade its facilities that will sustain the new equipment.
The Army wants to be a major logistics player in the Pacific. The secretary of the Army thinks commercial industry has tools to help the service do that.
This past fiscal year, the OWT delivered about 2 million square kilometers of 3D datasets to a range of partners, supporting training, operational, and intelligence needs, per the Army.
European nations are willing to spend “money to modernize their equipment and replenish their stocks, but also money to train their forces,” said Lt. Gen. John Kolasheski.
The timeline for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft award is unclear after senior leaders seemed to push it back from an expected October announcement.
The Army is replacing the Shadow in its infantry brigades, but Textron is upgrading as the company expects other Army groups, like aviation and special ops, to use it for more than a decade longer.
Fiscal year 2023 is an important year for the Army’s modernization portfolio, and its acquisition chief says he’s “confident” the service will meet its goals.
The Ukraine war proves the US Army is right to focus on high-tech long-range weapons and old-school high-intensity training, Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense.
“This will be a large and growing family of systems that we intend to add to in the years to come,” Anduril chief strategy officer Chris Brose told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
