Gen. Eric Smith and his wife won’t be moving their boxes into the "Home of the Commandants" quite yet, but he will have powers of a confirmed top Marine.
The Army's new Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory will help the service drive down cost and schedule risk in emerging laser weapons programs.
The Marine Corps wants to create the capability for all aircraft types — manned and unmanned — to contribute to a network that can gather and disseminate everything from voice to target-quality data in real time to forces in the air, on the ground or at sea.
The Marines this month declared initial operational capability for its CH-53K King Stallion, after the heavy lift helo demonstrated not only its operational performance but the maturity of its training and logistics programs as well.
The expeditionary warfare community is eyeing ways to bring all its forces to bear in future operations, with exercises combining Marines with special operations forces, mine countermeasures sailors and Seabees.
The Army conducted a flight test to push its new Precision Strike Missile out as far as it could beyond 499 kilometers on Oct. 13 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The Army will have to make tough decisions in the coming years as it races to modernize and stay prepared for a potential fight with high-end adversaries, Secretary Christine Wormuth said at AUSA.
Lockheed has found a way to accelerate the Army's critical Sentinel A4 program that will provide radar coverage for major air and missile defense systems coming online.
