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DoD Breakfast Club: Service Secretaries Coordinate R&D Spending
“We’ve started getting together for breakfast every week or two,” said Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, “just the three of us. It’s absolutely terrifying the staffs.”
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Top Gun For Grunts: Mattis May Revolutionize Infantry
“To get a quantum increase in the quality of close combat forces, we can do it in the next two years, (and) the cost compared to the rest of the DoD budget is very small,” said retired Maj. Gen. Robert...
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War Games: Army Replacing 1980s Simulators With Gaming Tech
The first phase of the Synthetic Training Environment initiative replaces existing simulators for vehicles. The second phase aims to create — in just two years — something the Army’s never had before:...
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Guns, Drones, & Augmented Reality: Army Seeks Infantry Revolution
The catch, of course, is that the Army’s tried to field all these things before — and failed. Why would things go any better this time around? Brig. Gen. Christopher Donahue has an answer for that.
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Army Patches Its Network For Near Term
The long-term solution may take “big, leap-ahead technology,” said Maj. Gen. Pete Gallagher, head of the Cross Functional Team leading the network overhaul. But short-term solutions can be as simple as...
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HUD 3.0: Army To Test Augmented Reality For Infantry In 18 Months
What should the device show the soldier? “Where am I? Where are my buddies? And where is the enemy?” said Gen. Townsend. “Then other stuff could be optional.”
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Will Milley Replace The Abrams Tank? Futures Command Advances
Army Futures Command is just a means to an end: modernizing the Army for high-intensity war against Russia or China. That includes replacing the iconic but aging M1 Abrams main battle tank, as well as...
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Stop Wasting Infantry’s Time: Mattis Task Force
“All too often when we bring things up inside the Beltway, it immediately devolves to material and programs and technology,” said Scales. “What we hope comes out of this is not just new machines but...
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Army Under Secretary Scopes Out Sensors: Fielding Fast
“It’s very encouraging,” McCarthy said. “It gives you high confidence in some of these investments we’re going to make….We’ve got these decisions coming up here by the middle of the summer for the POM...
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War Games: Army Deletes Bureaucracy To Get Sims Fast
There is real uncertainty whether such things as robotic tanks and high-speed scout helicopters are possible on the Army’s timeline. But if there’s one area where a high-speed approach can work, it’s...
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Marine Corps Braces For 2020 Budget Cuts: Gen. Neller
The Marines are plenty happy about getting more money in 2018 and 2019, but are nervously eyeing the potential return of sequestration in 2020. And it’s influencing how the Corps is spending that money...
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Marines Reorganize Infantry For High-Tech War: Fewer Riflemen, More Drones
“Everything that Marine wears — from their boots to their socks to their utilities to their helmet — is all going to be changed,” the Commandant said. “We’ve got money now to do that, and so we’ve got...
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HASC Endorses Mattis Infantry Task Force – With Some Suggestions
The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act came from freshman Congressman Jimmy Panetta, son of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and a Navy Reserve veteran of Afghanistan.
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Lockheed, Army To Test Exoskeleton In December
The Lockheed Martin ONYX doesn’t seem particularly high tech when it’s surrounded by displays of mini-drones, wheeled robots, and VR simulators here. But lean in close and listen as the soldier bends...
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Smart Rifles For Foot Soldiers: Army NGSW Prototype Contracts Out In June
The Army is just weeks away from awarding contracts to begin buying prototypes of new infantry weapons, with live-fire tests next year.
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Army Pushes Bradley Replacement; Cautious On Armed Robots
“Recent guidance from Army senior leadership has us looking at, emphasizing, Bradley replacement,” Miller told reporters in a conference call. “What we have now done is moved to accelerate our...
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US, Israeli Special Forces Test Innovative Ground Vehicle
The CH-53 landed in complete dark 10 miles from the target, a terrorist stronghold somewhere in the Middle East. The back ramp was down in two minutes: 15 U.S special forces commandos with their gear...
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Virtual Training Will Save Real Army Lives: Close Combat Task Force
PENTAGON: Of all the technologies and tactics that the defense secretary’s Close Combat Lethality Task Force has looked at, I asked one battle-hardened noncom here this morning, what’s the one thing...
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Army Moves $25B To Big Six, From New Tanks To 6.8mm Rifle
The Army plans to move at least $25 billion over the next five years from low-priority programs to preparing for major war. That includes developing a wide variety of new weapons, from high-speed...
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LYNX: Rheinmetall & Raytheon Team Up For NGCV – But Is It Too Heavy?
A key Army general’s remarks put a heavy burden on Rheinmetall and Raytheon to prove Lynx is not too heavy — or to start shaving tons.
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