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 original plan was to build two versions of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN): five advanced and five basic, and each would look exactly the same, respectively. But after discussions over the past year, and the arrival of its first advanced prototype Dec. 18, the Army is slightly shifting course.
The fiscal year 2025 defense authorization conference bill charges the defense secretary to establish a line item to fund the Defense Department's Joint Energetics Transition Office in future budget justification submissions.
As the Army nears the end of its "road show" scouting systems across the world for its Self-Propelled Howitzer Modernization (SPH-M) program, its findings are guiding preparations for the next step: a competitive evaluation at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ, in fiscal year 2026.
The Army wants industry feedback on a pilot program it hopes will inform its requirements for developing a secure, cloud-based enclave for small businesses, according to a Dec. 12 request for information.
The Army will host an industry day in early January to inform a multiple-award task order contract for two requirement pools -- one dealing with software development and the other homed in on the Army’s first artificial intelligence, machine learning pipeline: Project Linchpin.
The Army has inked a $656.2 million contract with BAE Systems Land & Armaments for two variants of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
The Army's current modernization investments leave out Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, House and Senate authorizers argue in their joint explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal year 2025 defense authorization conference bill.
House and Senate authorizers agree that developing a reliable Army organic industrial base must be prioritized going forward, as opposed to investing in contractors outside the United States.
House and Senate lawmakers are asking the Army to produce a report on its strategy for ground combat vehicle protection systems.
The Army will receive the third version of its Common Sensor Payload for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in June, the system’s product manager announced at a media day at Ft. Belvoir Tuesday. The latest iteration comes with a new, more precise targeting system for Coordinate Seeking Weapons.
Russia and China's mounting Arctic partnership has led to a rise in joint military operations between the two nations and transformed the region into a hybrid activity "hot spot" in need of investment, a senior Defense Department official said Thursday.
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program has yet to rebaseline, an Army spokesperson said Wednesday, despite planning to do so this past June. Rebaselining has become common for the program in the past five years, which blames its woes on budget funding deficits.
Rheinmetall AG officially closed on its $950 million purchase of Loc Performance Products, LLC on Nov. 29, a move aimed at strengthening the Düsseldorf-based vendor's hand in the United States' ground vehicles market, according to a Monday announcement.
The Army has inked a $670.5 million contract with Leidos subsidiary Dynetics Inc. to supply the service with a common hypersonic glide body and thermal protection system in just under five years.
Army Futures Command is widening the scope of its annual Positioning, Navigation and Timing Assessment Experiment, or PNTAX, to include its newest cross-functional team’s priority: domain sensing.
The Army is surveying industry for help running large cybersecurity networks, according to a request for information released Wednesday.
The Army put out a request for information Monday that asks for hardware solutions for a ground combat vehicle computing device that balances centralized and edge computing.
The model-based tests the Army is running on its replacement for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the XM30, have been so insightful they've shown just how much knowledge the service lacks without them, a senior official said during a web event Wednesday.
As it stands, the Robotic Combat Vehicle isn't as autonomous as the Army wants it to be, because the current technology is just "not that great," a senior Army official said during a web event Wednesday.
The Army, along with the joint services, has been investing in and developing effective sensors -- perhaps without taking full advantage of them, a senior official said Oct. 31.