Friday, November 14, 2025
Dominic Minadeo is an Inside Defense Army reporter. Before Inside Defense, he covered a slew of topics across Vermont as an intern for VTDigger. He also reported and edited for the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, where he graduated.
The Army wants to expand its agile funding initiative to consolidate budget items across each of its newly announced portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs) -- teeing up potential tension with a Congress that has already pushed back on proposals for spending flexibility.
The Army is surveying vendors interested in refurbishing earlier models of its Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) vehicles to turn them into upgraded M270A2s, according to a recently posted notice.
As the 4th Infantry Division gears its next-generation network prototype toward validation testing at Project Convergence Capstone 6 next summer, it's quickly turning up the complexity through the Army's Ivy Sting event series, senior leaders told reporters this week.
The Army today turned on its first-ever detachment dedicated to shaping the narrative in the Indo-Pacific region.
American Rheinmetall will put up forward-deployed maintenance sites in Poland to patch up Bradley Fighting Vehicles crippled by Ukrainian combat, the company has announced.
Despite losing out on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program more than two years ago, Oshkosh has won an additional $25 million from the Pentagon in exchange for access to intellectual property related to the JLTV, company leaders reported during a quarterly earnings call today.
Army soldiers driving two utility versions of the Infantry Squad Vehicle last week on Oahu, HI, pulled into a field, unfolded an 81mm mortar system out of the back, simulated firing off six rounds and peeled out, all in about a minute and 15 seconds, a video shared with Inside Defense shows.
As the Army works to stand up 25 Mobile Brigade Combat Teams over the next two years, it’s going to have to rethink how it moves around large numbers of incapacitated soldiers with lighter vehicles.
President Trump has tapped the highest-ranking commissioned officer in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office for the role of Army vice chief of staff, squeezing out Gen. James Mingus, who has held the role for just under two years.
The Army's pipeline for artificial intelligence and machine learning integration will be revised going forward, a senior leader announced this week, which involves a new name and consolidation under the service's next-generation network.
The Army and a team of industry partners have swiftly tailored the next-generation intelligence and targeting ground station to an Infantry Squad Vehicle amid preparations for a production decision in the first half of next calendar year.
Leadership at American Rheinmetall and Hanwha expect the Army to finally solicit industry on its self-propelled howitzer soon after the Association of the United States Army conference wraps up in Washington -- although a government shutdown might push that.
The 25th Infantry Division recently finished swapping howitzers for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers within its division artillery unit as part of the Army Transformation Initiative.
AM General anticipates a Medium Multipurpose Equipment Transport (M-MET) vehicle solicitation to surface in 2026, at which point the company, alongside Carnegie Robotics and Textron Systems, will pitch a modified unmanned humvee to take on the Army's logistics needs, the company revealed today.
The Army's 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force activated its long-range fires battalion last week, bringing it online just under half a year sooner than it previously thought.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll touted the Army’s recent launch of its Fuze program during remarks kicking off the service’s largest trade show today -- and signaled a forthcoming reform will build off it in the next couple of weeks.
BAE Systems is showcasing an Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle at this year’s Association of the United States Army trade show that hosts a 30mm turret and a common crew station, the latter of which would allow the Army the option to operate with one less crew member.
The Army is rapidly advancing its prototyping program for a Common Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher (CAML) with prototypes on their way in the next year and a half, according to a senior leader at Oshkosh Defense.
While the Army wants more technical data access from manufacturers under its Common Tactical Truck (CTT) program, Mack Defense President and CEO David Hartzell says the service already has what it needs to maintain the tactical vehicles it has.
General Dynamics Land Systems has replied to the Army's call for industry interest in a new robotic vehicle development project months after the service squashed its Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program under the Army Transformation Initiative.