Wednesday, October 1, 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's announcement this month that it will cancel its Gray Eagle program has sparked questions about when the platform will be dropped from the force, how it impacts other capabilities and what's going to replace it.
The Army will soon select up to three companies to deliver prototypes for its next-generation network under a competitive solicitation that may lead to a variety of projects leveraging industry’s mature technology, according to a May 16 announcement.
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army is working with industry on a launched effects demonstration for next year using sensing effects that can fly farther than current Army ranges, a service leader said this week.
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army aviation portfolio was already on the road to transformation before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's major restructuring memo, according to a senior service leader.
NASHVILLE, TN -- It has been just two weeks since the Army announced one of the more major service restructurings in recent years, and one that will see a significant scaling back of manned aviation platforms.
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army's latest order of the A2 variant of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles will be its last, a senior leader told reporters Wednesday. (UPDATED)
NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army hasn't officially dropped its program for a wholesale new helicopter engine, but the system's future largely weighs in the balance of a constricted fiscal year 2026 budget amid shifting priorities, a senior leader said today.
The Army tried something new at its fifth Project Convergence experiment this year: Invading the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA, with around 250 technologies that yielded plenty of ideas for how soldiers and robots might fight together in the future.
American Rheinmetall is putting together mock-ups of its bid for the Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement at U.S. factories it bought last fall, the parent company's CEO announced today.
The Army's Self-Propelled Howitzer program is in a "day-to-day slip" as the service seeks Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's approval to solicit industry for the next phase of demonstrations, a one-star general told Inside Defense today.
The Army won't spend extra dollars Congress added to the humvee program in spending guidance for fiscal year 2025 after the service last week announced it was cancelling the vehicle, according to a senior official.
The Army announced yesterday it is swapping out its Infantry Brigade Combat Teams, a decision that was largely driven by troop recommendations in the first rendition of “Transforming in Contact.”
The Army’s new civilian leader today announced a move to cancel the M10 Booker program, laying into the service’s mismanagement of an overpriced and ineffective tank.
Oshkosh Corp. estimates President Trump’s tariffs could dip the company’s earnings by about $1 per share this year, but executives said this morning that with “targeted mitigation actions” they expect to make up about half of that.
The Army’s mine-clearing assault vehicle needs a new set of eyes, according to a notice posted this morning.
The Defense Department is hoping to fortify its homegrown rare earth element supply chain by soliciting domestic sources that can help turn mined oxides and salts into metals and magnets, the Army announced last week.
The Army has officially backed out of its contract with GM Defense to run tests on electric variants of its Infantry Squad Vehicle following condemnation from Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who has railed against their utility on the battlefield.
The Army has taken another step toward modernizing its industrial base by cutting the ribbon with General Dynamics on a load, assembly and pack facility (LAP) for 155mm rounds, bringing the service closer to its goal of producing 100,000 rounds per month, according to an April 22 press release.
The Army doesn't plan to shave small slices of funding across its programs to account for the Pentagon's 8% shakeup of the fiscal year 2026 budget; instead, "there’s going to be things that stop," according to Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer.
The Army wants to swap soldiers for robots on breaching missions in close quarters, according to an industry notice published today.