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Air Force Pushes 3D Printing To Boost Readiness
Air Force LCMC is working to ensure that far-flung depots eventually can print their own parts — with a recent first being Travis AFB’s using their brand, spanking new laser printer to print those...
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Army Secretary Ramps Up 3D Printing
A new policy orders organizations across the Army to embrace advanced manufacturing to “fundamentally change” both modernization and readiness.
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Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare
These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
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Army’s 3D Printing Hub Will Be Rock Island: Gen. Perna
The upgraded arsenal will be the flagship of a much larger move towards advanced manufacturing across the Army. The goal: streamlining supply chains for major war.
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5G: Pentagon Asks Tech Sector For Help
Four military installations, yet to be named, will host experiments in VR training, tracking supplies in “smart warehouses,” and – most importantly – sharing scarce spectrum.
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Army Pushes 600 Programs From Acquisition To Sustainment
The multi-million-dollar move will help Army Futures Command focus on new technology while Army Materiel Command focuses on sustaining the current force, Gen. Gus Perna told us.
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EXCLUSIVE The Army’s Got A Universal Robot Driver
The US Army is field-testing a robot brain so versatile it can drive both tanks and trucks — even British Army lorries with the steering wheel on the wrong side.
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Giving Thanks, Keeping The American Faith Around The Globe
Army Central Command is going to feed about 50,000 troops, government civilians, contractors and coalition partners across 19 countries.
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Army Robots: Two Contracts Forward, One Contract Back
Textron won the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Medium and Qinetiq the RCV-Light, but General Dynamics’ award for the S-MET “mule” must be recompeted.
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Artillery Seeks Robot Ammo Haulers
Six companies got $150,000 Field Artillery Autonomous Resupply contracts to study everything from exoskeletons that strengthen human ammo handlers to robots that might replace them.
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Army Adding New Arms Stockpile In Europe: Gen. Perna
To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.
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Mind the Gap: The Army Looks to a New Assault Bridge for Heavy Armor...
“If you took all the bridging in NATO and put it together we couldn’t get a Brigade Combat Team across a 400-meter river,” said the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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OMFV: The Army’s Polish Bridge Problem
The Army has struggled for decades to fit armored vehicles on airplanes. The real challenge is getting them across rickety Soviet-era bridges in Eastern Europe.
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Navy Gets First Bell-Boeing CMV-22B: What It Means
The Navy’s Osprey differs from the Marine Corps and Air Force versions, boasting an enhanced fuel capacity, which required wing modifications to deal with the greater weight.
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Army Kills APKWS Rockets & Mystery Missile, MIRM
The 2021 budget request also makes major reductions in the tracked M2 Bradley and the wheeled Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, as well as counter-IED programs.
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Multi-Domain Task Forces Top Army’s $7B Unfunded List
The Army wants $985 million for modernization, from Apache gunships and 8×8 Strykers to safety improvements at ammunition plants. We have the list.
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CENTCOM Asks For More Drones, Money To Build Up Base In Oman
In an “unfunded priorities” list sent to Congress, the Centcom chief points in the direction of an expanding US footprint in the region.
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TRANSCOM Wants To Keep 23 Tankers DoD Cut In 2021
Retiring the KC-135s and KC-10s before the new KC-46 tanker comes on line will have “significant impacts” on TRANSCOM’s ability to fulfill its wartime mission, says Gen. Stephen Lyons.
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OMFV: Army Seeks Industry Advice On Bradley Replacement
Having rebooted the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, the Army is now is asking industry input on how to achieve nine goals, from survivability to mobility to streamlined logistics.
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Navy Needs Bigger Budget Than Other Services: Rep. Wittman
“You can have the greatest brigade combat team in the world,” Rep. Wittman said, “but if they can’t get to the fight because we don’t have a robust ready reserve fleet, that’s pretty shortsighted.”
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