Navy Adm. Brad Cooper takes over at CENTCOM
Navy Adm. Brad Cooper will take over for U.S. Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who led Operation Rough Rider and Midnight Hammer at U.S. CENTCOM.
By Riley Ceder
Latest ""
Two Chinese military vessels collide in South China Sea
A China Coast Guard vessel accidentally crushed the front of a People’s Liberation Army Navy ship while chasing a Philippine Coast Guard vessel.
By Riley Ceder
Interview: Dr. Bruce Jette, Army acquisition chief
As the Army undergoes a major transformation to include the activation of the brand new Army Futures Command, some things within the acquisition branch will change and some things will stay the same.
By Jen Judson
So Patriot and THAAD will talk. What does that really mean?
The Army decided earlier this year to drastically accelerate its plans to get the Patriot medium-range air-and-missile defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to communicate.
By Jen Judson
Inflection point: Army wrestles to strike balance between current and future capability
At some point soon, the Army will have to make difficult decisions on how long legacy weapon systems and planned upgrades for those capabilities can — or should — carry the service into the future.
By Jen Judson
Defensive protection systems leading army modernization
The modern battlefield has become a complex theater of threats, from powerful anti-armor and anti-aircraft missiles to the dawn of small but lethal unmanned aircraft. The Army and Marine Corps know these threats are not just in the hands of organized armies, but have proliferated and will be a part of any potential future conflict the U.S. military faces. To counter these threats, a major modernization effort to incorporate defensive protection systems on aircraft and ground vehicles is underway.
Army in final stages of hashing out Stryker lethality requirements
The Army has entered the final stages of hashing out requirements for ramping up Stryker combat vehicle lethality and will make a decision in January on what it wants in order to increase its battlefield effectiveness.
By Jen Judson
Road to Future Vertical Lift: Defiant preps for first flight, Valor leaves the nest
The two vertical lift aircraft under development for the U.S. Army are making headway on the road to one day delivering a potential future medium-lift aircraft to the joint forces.
By Jen Judson
Army seeks new tactical unmanned aircraft for demo, testing in brigade combat teams
The Army is calling for ready-to-fly future tactical unmanned aircraft systems that it can demonstrate with a select group of brigade combat teams.
By Jen Judson
The Army’s future tank may not be a tank
Army is thinking outside the box for its future tank, so outside the box, it may not even be a tank.
By Jen Judson
The Army finally knows what it needs to help GPS-denied troops
The Army has finalized requirements for a mounted position, navigation and timing solution.
By Mark Pomerleau
Boeing: Apache helicopter fix could take until past 2020 to complete
The most limiting factor for getting the repairs done? How fast Boeing's supply chain can manufacture retrofit kits.
By Valerie Insinna