Thursday, December 4, 2025
Key Issues Golden Dome contracts CAML Cape Cod GBR
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 will undergo a production decision review this month for the first increment of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program, according to the Government Accountability Office's Weapon System Annual Assessment report, released last week.
The Army’s delay in pivoting the XM30 to a major capability acquisition pathway was caused by software and hardware from competing vendors that didn't jibe with modular open systems requirements, a Government Accountability Office report has found.
House appropriators have budgeted zero dollars for M10 Booker procurement next year as the Army calls for an end to its contract with vendor General Dynamics Land Systems, according to the report accompanying the committee's fiscal year 2026 draft spending bill.
Lawmakers in the House yesterday scolded Pentagon officials for ignoring a two-year-old congressional directive to stand up an office focused on upgrading and modernizing its energetic materials to keep pace with China.
The Army is going forward with its promise to end Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and humvee buys in favor of the smaller, stealthier Infantry Squad Vehicle, as reflected by budget documents the Pentagon slipped to Congress yesterday.
Democrats in Congress last week questioned Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George over what they view as exorbitant costs to finance a military parade in Washington and maintain operations on the southern border. Some members believe the money could be better spent on barracks improvements and other quality-of-life issues.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has released a draft fiscal year 2026 spending bill that includes $345 million in procurement dollars for the Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle in the face of top service leaders who insist they won’t buy any more.
The innovation lab under Army Futures Command has announced it is surveying industry for protective technologies to shield armored vehicles against small, cheap drones that have proven lethal against tanks and other pricey weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Congress can be a willful partner to the Army's transformation initiative if the service justifies its changing investments -- but it draws the line at divesting from munitions plants, depots and arsenals, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) said yesterday.
General Dynamics Land Systems has announced it recently passed a successful critical design review of its blueprint for the Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement, and it is on a path to supply the Army with prototypes in 2026.
The Army would need at least two decades to reach sufficient surge capacity in its munitions industrial base under current conditions, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers today.
CINCINNATI -- GE Aerospace's defense segment is in ongoing discussions with Army leaders on a plan to accelerate the service's program for a next-generation helicopter turbine engine, the fate of which lies in the forthcoming fiscal year 2026 budget request, company officials told reporters at a tour of its headquarters here on Monday.
The Army has ordered 24 additional M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzer systems from BAE Systems in an undefinitized contract with a ceiling of $423 million, according to a recent Pentagon contract announcement.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has announced an ambitious new timeline for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program that, if successful, would yield two dozen MV-75 prototypes in two years.
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)