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Jaspreet Gill was the senior technology reporter for Inside the Army until January 2022. She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a master's degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism in 2019. Previously, she covered local upstate and central New York politics, community news and the 2018 midterm elections.
The Army announced today Bell and Sikorsky have been awarded contracts for the competitive demonstration and risk-reduction phase of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, a part of the service’s future vertical lift modernization priority.
The National Guard Bureau chief this month said he was not consulted on the $3.8 billion reprogramming action taken by the Defense Department to fund President Trump's border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the transfer will impact the Army National Guard's domestic operations portfolio.
Army acquisition executive Bruce Jette told lawmakers today the service is increasing its foreign military sales to maintain the minimum sustainment rate for Boeing's CH-47 Chinook block II production line.
Army acquisition executive Bruce Jette told lawmakers last week the service is looking to divest hundreds of weapon systems that are no longer deemed useful.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has tasked the Army with developing a rapid-response capability concept for counter unmanned aerial systems, a service official said yesterday.
Army acquisition executive Bruce Jette said today the original competitors for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle intend to recompete for the newly restructured effort.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told lawmakers this week the Army taking the lead on the Close Combat Lethality Task Force is a "big win" and the service plans to work closely with the Marines.
Boeing today unveiled its design for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, the No. 1 priority under the service's future vertical lift effort.
The Army’s Future Vertical Lift Architecture Collaboration Working Group is inviting industry in April to discuss open systems architecture requirements for the FVL family of systems.
The Army last month successfully mounted the next-generation engine for the AH-60 Apache attack helicopter during a "fit test," the service announced this week.
The Government Accountability Office this week released an advisory opinion indicating it would have objected to the Army's price reasonableness evaluation for the U.S. European Command theater under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V.
The Army's Program Executive Office for Aviation is looking for capabilities to support multidomain operations for future force modernization, including the future vertical lift modernization priority.
The Army is requesting a slight increase in tactical network modernization funding for fiscal year 2021 and is planning to spend more than $3 billion on radios in its future years defense program.
The Army is asking Congress for $7 billion in its fiscal year 2021 unfunded priorities list, including $985.4 million for the service’s modernization priorities.
West Palm Beach, FL -- Boeing and Sikorsky today flew their proposal for the Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program, the SB-1 Defiant, for the first time publicly.
The Army is asking for $45 million in fiscal year 2021 for the Long Range Precision Munition, a new-start missile procurement program for use on the AH-64 Apache helicopter.
The Army in its fiscal year 2021 budget request wants more than double the amount it received last year for the Next Generation Squad Weapon as it gets ready to field the system.
The Army wants to move the first Integrated Visual Augmentation System program into procurement in fiscal year 2021, asking for 40,219 units in its budget request.
The director of the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Office says it is ready to release a two-year plan next month that will inform the service on how best to implement and use the cloud in the future.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin says he is working closely with Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord as the service takes the lead on counter-drone technology.