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Ashley Tressel was Inside the Army's managing editor until November 2020. She was previously a local news reporter in Northern California, covering government, crime and the deadly 2017 wildfires in Mendocino County. She has also worked as a legislative reporter for NPR member station WFSU in Tallahassee. A Florida native, she graduated from Florida State University.
The Army's Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate wants information on laboratory-tested technologies for more than 20 defined research areas relating to the service's tactical network and battlefield communications.
The Defense Department inspector general has determined that the Army failed to oversee contractor performance or invoices for a $77.8 million task order for vehicles and weapons in Afghanistan, according to a new report.
House and Senate conferees have included in their compromise fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill a provision requiring the Army secretary to submit concrete details on the service's Futures Command stood up this month.
The final fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill scales back a proposed limit on Next Generation Combat Vehicle funding, allowing the Army to use up to 90 percent of the money authorized before the service secretary submits a report on the NGCV's development.
Congress is pushing the Army to look into fielding an interim anti-cruise missile defense system after finding a gap in the service's capabilities. (UPDATED)
Senior Pentagon and service leaders have come to a formal agreement on the development of a hypersonic boost-glide technology, Inside Defense has learned.
The Army is reviewing how it uses other transaction agreements to accelerate the acquisition process, while lawmakers worried about transparency attempt to tighten oversight of the process.
Four companies will compete for each order of a $249.6 million hybrid contract to develop and modernize waveforms for the Army, the Defense Department announced July 16.
The Army will realign $399.3 million to boost its operating forces if Congress approves the Defense Department's fiscal year 2018 omnibus reprogramming request, obtained by Inside Defense.
The Army is looking to accelerate development of Next Generation Combat Vehicle experimental prototypes by shifting $57 million within its fiscal year 2018 budget, according to the Pentagon's annual omnibus reprogramming request awaiting congressional approval.
Lt. Gen. Mike Murray has officially been nominated to lead Army Futures Command, standing up over the next year in Austin, TX.
Maj. Gen. Paul Pardew, head of Army Contracting Command, received his second star July 11 at Army Materiel Command headquarters, Redstone Arsenal, AL.
The Government Accountability Office has denied General Dynamics Mission Systems' protest of the rejection of its proposal for the Army's Distributed Common Ground System Increment 1, Capability Drop 1.
The Army has chosen to station its new Futures Command headquarters in downtown Austin, TX, senior service leaders announced today.
Oshkosh Defense has received a $49 million contract to integrate scalable autonomous technology onto Palletized Load System vehicles as part of the Expedient Leader Follower program.
The Army's Initial Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense system is one of the service's first steps to bring back systems it has allowed to "atrophy," according to the deputy chief of staff (G-9).
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley announced July 9 that Brig. Gen. Robert Rasch has been appointed to serve as program executive officer for missiles and space at Redstone Arsenal, AL.
Domestic military installations are now "part of the battlespace" and should be thought of as weapon systems -- necessitating a drastic change in the institutional perspective, according to an Army official.
The joint force is looking for institutional and operational reform in a new approach to information warfare, according to a draft joint concept obtained by Inside Defense.
The Army now plans to announce its decision on the location of Futures Command in the next few weeks, as its previous end-of-June deadline has passed.