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Pentagon Searching For New Ways To Move Gear During Next War
As the Pentagon wrestles with how to ready itself for competition with China and Russia, the issue of how to move troops, equipment, and supplies around the globe is becoming increasingly important.
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Hunter Wolf: Killer Robot Golfcart
While the current Army requirement is purely for transport, manufacturer HDT has carefully designed in enough horsepower and electrical power to handle a host of heavy upgrades, including the...
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NATO Stocks Up on Bombs, Giving Smaller States More Punch
WASHINGTON: Over the past month, US Air Forces in Europe took delivery of their largest shipment of ordnance in two decades. It’s another sign of the rearming of the continent as the United States...
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Forget The Terminator For Future Army AI: LTG Wesley
DETROIT: The Artificial Intelligence the military needs most is not some kind of killer robot, the Army’s three-star senior futurist told me today. The Army really needs AI to make sense of lots of...
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Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
Don’t think about the Terminator or Iron Man: Think about Sigourney Weaver’s power loader lifting crates in Aliens.
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Army Picks BAE, GD For MPF Light Tank Prototypes: Upstart SAIC Is Out
Yes, MPF is much lighter and less heavily armored than the M1 Abrams or even Russian tanks like the T-90. But MPF is going to light infantry units that currently have no armored vehicles at all, just a...
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BAE Gets $873M For AMPVs, Spelling The End of The ‘Aluminum Coffin’ M113
In Iraq, M113 variants were deemed too vulnerable to roadside bombs and confined to base. But in a fast-moving mechanized war in Eastern Europe, the armored brigades would need support vehicles that...
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Will Germany, Not Ready & Slow To Invest, Keep EU Leadership, Deter Putin
The Cold War has not returned, but the Russians have. The challenge for the Trump Administration is less about whether the US cares about European defense; it is much more about a strategic shift of...
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Air Force OKs First KC-46 Delivery; Lots of Caveats
WASHINGTON: While the Air Force accepted delivery of the first KC-46 today, Boeing could face a total of $4.5 billion in cost overruns and withheld payments on the initial $4.9 billion contract for 52...
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Air Force Tries To Fix F-35’s ALIS — From A Big, Broken Box To the Cloud
How bad is the F-35’s computerized maintenance system, ALIS? So bad the plane may be better off without it.
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SOCOM Tests Sarcos Exoskeleton (No, It Isn’t ‘Iron Man’)
Sorry, you won’t be punching aliens in the face. But loading 200-pound missiles onto a helicopter by yourself? That’s plenty useful.
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AI, Initiative, & Lots Of Smart Bombs: Gen. Perna On Supplying Major Wars
The massive Army Materiel Command needs to get a lot lighter on its feet for future conflicts, its four-star chief says.
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Will Army Uncancel CH-47F Chinook Upgrade? Sec. Esper & Gen. McConville
The Army wants to keep its options open on upgrading its heaviest cargo helicopter. Boeing is worried the window of opportunity — and its factory — will close before the Army makes up its mind.
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Army Tells Shoddy Suppliers: Shape Up
Quality control problems at Boeing are just part of wider supply shortfalls that could hamstring Army helicopters in a major war.
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Is Israel Ready For War?
The IDF chief of staff says his fraying forces urgently need a $2.76 billion boost.
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Marines: FVL Intriguing, BUT CH-53K Is Essential
The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China.
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Army To Test ATLAS Robotic Gun: Bruce Jette
The experimental turret will use the technology — and the safeguards — from the Army’s ATLAS project, originally misrepresented in the media as building “killer robots.”
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Poland Deal Lays Groundwork For Division-Strength Deployment
A division-scale exercise next year in Europe, Defender 2020, will be the largest in a quarter-century.
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Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots
Ground robots still lag drones, but the Army thinks both technologies are ready to field to frontline units, just at different levels.
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LogX: DARPA Aims to Fix Supply Chain
DARPA’s LogX program will move DoD logistics and supply chain data to the cloud.
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