Saturday, December 7, 2024
Courtney McBride was the managing editor of Inside the Army until May 2018. She previously worked for Hotline and National Journal. A native of the Philadelphia area, she studied the modern Middle East at the University of Pennsylvania.
Industry will have to relinquish some of its hold on intellectual property to play a part in the Army's efforts to modernize and improve its network, according to the military deputy to the service's acquisition executive.
President Trump is poised to nominate a defense industry executive to the Army's top civilian post, according to a July 19 announcement.
Army Space and Missile Defense Command will play a critical role in the multi-domain task forces envisioned by service leadership, according to its commander.
Senate authorizers intend to provide the Army with billions of dollars in additional funding to support priorities outlined in the service's fiscal year 2018 unfunded requirements list.
In the years since then-Defense Secretary Bob Gates cancelled the Future Combat Systems program, the Army's ground vehicle development pipeline has almost totally stalled, according to a new story from Inside Defense.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Army.
The president's pick to serve as Army under secretary, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged the Army's struggles to modernize its platforms and committed to continued reform of the acquisition process.
The Army, maligned for a series of expensive acquisition failures over the past two decades, now faces the future armed with aging vehicles and little in the development pipeline.
The Army is set to embark on a new vehicle upgrade program that will likely draw industry rivals BAE Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems into another intense competition, according to a new story from Inside Defense.
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a bid protest over the Army's Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services program, a contract vehicle worth up to $37.4 billion.
The Army's deputy chief of staff (G-8) plans to use the Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review process to better inform the Next Generation Combat Vehicle prototype effort.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Army.
The Defense Department has awarded Sikorsky a multiyear procurement contract worth up to $3.8 billion for Black Hawks for the U.S. Army and Saudi Arabia, according to a pair of recent announcements.
The Army Science Board will convene in open and closed sessions July 20 to review four fiscal year 2017 studies, according to a July 6 Federal Register notice.
The Army is mapping out an upgrade program for its Vietnam-era M113 armored troop carrier that would again pit the two largest combat vehicle manufacturers against each other in a contest for survivability and affordability.
Senate authorizers last week voted to cut funding for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, the backbone of the Army network now under scrutiny by service leadership.
House and Senate authorizers agree that the Army should be larger in fiscal year 2018, but are at odds on the level of the end-strength increase -- a dispute that could present challenges in the conference process.
Congressional appropriators intend to provide a funding boost for procurement of several Army aviation platforms in fiscal year 2018, but have elected to hold others steady.
As the United States military works to bolster its cyber and electronic warfare capabilities, its allies in NATO are working to improve interoperability.
The Army last week wrapped up Cyber Quest 17, an annual exercise intended to inform the service's requirements development process in the cyber/electromagnetic spectrum arenas.