An infantry soldier's primary focus was once ammunition, dry socks and enough water to survive in the field. But today there's a need for vast stores of power just to manage daily operations.
“As we enter into this fiscal year, it’s probably one of the few times that we’ve had four capability sets kind of going on in parallel,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Collins.
Much of what the Army is seeking in the upcoming detailed design phase for the optionally manned fighting vehicle was not made public on the U.S. government’s contracting website, with documents marked as “controlled unclassified information” in previous draft requests for proposals.
The Army will choose between prototype designs offered by Raytheon and Palantir, both selected last year to compete to develop the service's next-generation ground station.
The first platoon of the Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense System has been in Europe for nearly a year in response to an urgent capability gap former U.S. Army Europe Commander Gen. Ben Hodges identified in 2016.
The Army's deployment to Iron Dome generated lessons learned that will feed into the service's decision on where Iron Dome will be stationed in the future.
Asked about the cuts March 9, Doug Bush, the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said: “We’re working through that.”
The Army's Integrated Battle Command System has complete its first two flight tests as part of its Initial Operational Test & Evaluation are complete on the road to full-rate production.