Tuesday, September 30, 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 first "born digital" ground combat vehicle program, the XM30, needs a system to safeguard crews in a drone-saturated battlefield -- which is why Duality AI is supplying a virtual testing ground for the service to fine tune its counter-drone concept, according to an April 10 company press release.
Overland AI has launched its first tactical vehicle, dubbed ULTRA, integrated with autonomous software geared toward off-road, "brutal environments," Peter Winzeler, director of strategic communications at the company, told Inside Defense today.
The Defense Department is tasking Oracle to supply the Army with its cloud infrastructure to help move toward building a "secure, multicloud ecosystem" for the service, according to a company press release from today.
The Army has awarded Teledyne FLIR Defense a new, four-year contract to continue upgrading the mounted reconnaissance system on the service's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV), the company announced April 9.
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would strike an instant blow to the world economy and deal long-term damage to the web of allies and partners the U.S. has built over the years, Adm. Sam Paparo, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
Soldiers manning trucks, tanks or helicopters don't have good enough access to data detailing their exposure to nuclear radiation, which is why the Army is surveying industry for a new, network-capable system to keep crews informed.
Remnants of the Army's scrapped Extended Range Cannon Artillery prototyping program are proffering munitions that can bump artillery into ERCA-desired range, a service leader said Tuesday.
The Army has yet to put out its planned solicitation to kick off the second phase of its Self-Propelled Howitzer Modernization (SPH-M) program despite planning its release for the end of February, following what those in industry have described as successful demos last fall.
The Army will brief industry in late April on the service's projected program goals and potential contracting plans for the next two fiscal years to give companies an idea of how to compete, according to an announcement posted today.
The Army has awarded an other transaction agreement to the Ohio-based engineering firm 3dB Labs to build a prototype of the Spectrum Situational Awareness System, according to a press release the service put out today.
The Army posted a call for industry feedback on its wholesale network upgrade program, Next Generation Command and Control, yesterday evening after telling reporters on Monday that an announcement was imminent.
The Army's next-generation, optionally manned fighting vehicle missed its scheduled deadline for a milestone B decision yesterday as the service says it's looking toward the summer to pivot instead, inadvertently ending an audit from the Pentagon's inspector general.
The Army has put down a $95 million order for heavy tactical vehicles from Oshkosh Defense, part of which includes orders for the service's first logistics truck designed for autonomy, an Oshkosh press release announced today.
The Army is gearing up to inform industry on how to compete in next steps of its Next Generation Command and Control program as it pivots toward scaling to the division level at next year's Project Convergence Capstone 6, just weeks after it finished this year's experiment, service officials said during a roundtable at the Pentagon Monday.
The Army has awarded Leonardo DRS a $16.9 million contract to develop a modernized prototype of the electric weapon control system on the M109A7 Paladin, the service’s self-propelled howitzer, according to a press release the company put out today.
RTX has successfully tested a driverless, missile-launching vehicle using a new training rocket at a Project Convergence live-fire test event, according to a press release the company put out this morning.
Oshkosh is pitching a variant of its Marine Corps unmanned expeditionary vehicle to the Army at the service's Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, AL, fitting a multiple launch rocket system on the autonomous weapons launcher for the first time.
General Dynamics Land Systems is unveiling a new, six-wheeled combat vehicle topped with a maneuver short-range air defense system this week, which the Army plans to test out at its Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment this summer.
The Defense Logistics Agency is working to rehire the workers it let go at the beginning of the month after a federal judge ordered government agencies to backtrack last week, a DLA spokesperson told Inside Defense this morning.
Army pains from the yearlong continuing resolution may be assuaged by "replenishment funds" from Congress, a senior service official said today.