Saturday, October 11, 2025
The Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.2 billion contract modification to increase the production ceiling of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. The total face value of the contract is a little more than $13 billion, according to a Pentagon contract notice issued Thursday.
With Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth having directed the Army to field unmanned aerial systems and Launched Effects in every division by the end of fiscal year 2026, the service is using a summit at Ft. Rucker, AL this week to quickly identify commercial systems that could be rapidly fielded.
Three months after the sweeping Army Transformation Initiative spelled out the planned sunset of the Gray Eagle drone system and canceled the Future Tactical Unmanned System competition, the service is charting a way forward for both efforts.
Starting this fall, the Army will begin to roll out a new website it will use to classify and purchase unmanned aerial systems, leaders from the service's Program Executive Office for Aviation said Thursday.
AeroVironment announced today it is partnering with Sierra Nevada Corp. to build out the air and missile defense open architecture that will support the Trump administration’s Golden Dome for America missile defense initiative.
The Army is interested in using Red River Army Depot near Texarkana, TX to manufacture, develop and test small unmanned systems, according to an Aug. 4 solicitation.
The Senate Appropriations Committee intends to add more than $2 billion in procurement funding for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement in its fiscal year 2026 defense spending bill.
The Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) intends to launch a study of science and technology investments in "Structural Concepts for Affordable Launched Effects," according to a government notice posted July 30.
The Senate Appropriations Committee wants the Army to scale back its agile portfolio funding strategy for fiscal year 2026, lawmakers wrote in their version of the defense spending bill.
The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its fiscal year 2026 defense spending bill, has used forceful language in demanding the Army provide greater detail on its multifaceted transformation initiative, requiring the secretary and chief of staff to provide quarterly briefings to the congressional defense committees.
An ongoing counter-drone exercise in Europe being conducted by the Army reiterates the need for a "layered approach" to defending against the modern day battlefield threat, according to officials.
The Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center, in partnership with several other governmental organizations, will hold a weeklong exercise in Austin, TX early in fiscal year 2026, which will involve testing out industry counter-drone technologies in a dense urban environment.
The likelihood of a continuing resolution in fiscal year 2026 will mean the Army could use some similar flexible spending authorities that were baked into the FY-25 yearlong CR, the service's budget director emphasized today.
The Army's decision to award a subcontract for the main propulsion system of the M1E3, the next-generation Abrams tank, has drawn the anger of members of Congress.
The Army is weighing a plan to consolidate its acquisition offices that is ruffling the feathers of New Jersey lawmakers who say the proposal will harm rather than help the service's munitions procurement and will cripple Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, which oversees that work.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is encouraging -- but not mandating -- the Army to pursue an eleventh multiyear procurement contract for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter beyond fiscal year 2026.
The Army announced today that it has tapped Lt. Gen. David Hodne to lead the service's future Transformation and Training Command that will combine Army Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command.
Not all personnel are expected to relocate from Ft. Eustis, VA to Austin, TX when Training and Doctrine Command merges with Army Futures Command, which is expected sometime this fall, according to the Army.
The Army has begun the process of replacing eight 105 mm howitzers and six 155 mm howitzers with 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers in the 25th Infantry Division, based in Hawaii.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee, through a series of amendments to their version of the fiscal year 2026 defense authorization bill, want to prevent, or at least slow, impending Army workforce cuts that are planned as part of the service's transformation initiative.