The Army's top civilian official has clarified his instructions to a senior service leader charged with designing a new organization to oversee modernization.
Friday, October 11, 2024
Friday, October 11, 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.
The Army's top civilian official has clarified his instructions to a senior service leader charged with designing a new organization to oversee modernization.
The congressional defense committees have approved the Army's request to reprogram $90 million in fiscal year 2017 funds to support communications capability for the service's nascent security force assistance brigades.
Army aviation is struggling to balance an array of responsibilities that include waging the current fight, training for the next and upgrading airframes for the future, according to the branch chief.
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Lawmakers have agreed to provide the Army with its requested funding for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical in fiscal year 2018, but have restricted the service’s expenditures and imposed several reporting requirements.
The nominee to serve as the next Army acquisition executive advocated today for funding stability, acquisition reform and greater accountability to support the service's modernization goals.
The leaders of the cross-functional teams tasked with pursuing the Army's top modernization priorities "are moving out," building their staffs and identifying the required capabilities in their portfolios, according to acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
The decision to establish a new command to oversee Army modernization will have far-reaching implications -- particularly for the major Army commands, according to the service's acting secretary.
The Army is reaching out to industry to determine vendors' ability to produce a cannon-delivered munition to replace cluster munitions, which face a looming prohibition due to their tendency to leave unexploded ordnance.
A budgetary amendment request submitted yesterday by the Trump administration would provide an additional $884 million for Army missile procurement in 2018, boosting the portfolio to nearly $4 billion including base and overseas contingency operations funds.
Over the next 18 to 24 months, the Army will pursue a trio of network initiatives to bolster its mission command capability and standardize systems across the entire service.
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The Army has postponed the release of a final request for proposals for a logistics contract worth as much as $82 billion over a decade.
The Army must modernize to ensure its readiness for future conflicts, but cannot achieve this absent a “complete overhaul” of the existing acquisition system, according to the nominee picked to be the next secretary of the service.
A shortage of qualified vendors for key components of the propulsion systems for missiles could pose challenges for key Army and joint force weapon programs, according to government auditors.
Industry is crafting solutions for the Army's Mobile Protected Firepower program, intended to add mobility and lethality to infantry brigade combat teams, ahead of a final request for proposals due for release in the coming weeks.
Mark Esper, tapped to serve as Army secretary, will face the Senate Armed Services Committee this week in a long-awaited nomination hearing, amid concerns from Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) about the number of top Defense Department nominees hailing from the "big five" contractors.
The Army has achieved initial operational capability for the first eight cross-functional teams tasked with pursuing senior leaders' top modernization priorities, Inside the Army has learned.
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The Army is employing "an open approach" to establishing and refining requirements for the first aircraft in the Future Vertical Lift family of systems, according to the program's Training and Doctrine Command capability manager.