Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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 in November started equipping additional units with the first generation of its Mounted Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing anti-jamming capability, which will be integrated into Abrams and Bradley vehicles, a service official told Inside Defense last week.
The Army's team in charge of enhancing soldier positioning, navigation and timing operational capability this month wrapped up the first of several exercises planned this year aimed at its sensor-to-shooter learning campaign efforts, the director of the team told Inside Defense in an interview this week.
The Army has partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory on its Tactical High Power Operational Responder in an effort to counter threats posed by enemy drones, the Air Force announced last week.
The Army is conducting several communications exercises and upgrading technologies and data collection efforts as it gears up for the second annual sensor-to-shooter learning campaign known as Project Convergence, service officials told Inside Defense in a recent interview.
The Army is developing a service-wide standard spectrum analyzer that would provide situational awareness by monitoring and analyzing the electromagnetic environment, a service official said yesterday.
The Army wants information from industry on an autonomous unmanned aircraft system that can perform aerial resupply to infantry brigade combat teams, with the first unit equipped by fiscal year 2026, according to a notice posted today.
The Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office is asking industry to submit white papers for a counter-small unmanned aerial system high-energy laser system, according to a notice posted today.
The Army is seeking information on Long Range Precision Munition solutions that can be demonstrated at a planned shoot-off in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022, in an effort to inform LRPM capabilities development and the selection of vendors to integrate and test on Army aviation platforms.
The Army is hosting a virtual advance planning briefing at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, to discuss potential future contracting opportunities, according to a notice posted today.
The Pentagon in fiscal year 2022 is planning to select the first increment of an initial low-collateral interceptor capability for procurement and fielding, officials from the Army-led Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems Office told reporters today.
The Army will host a Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System "Rodeo" at the end of this month through the first week of March, a service official told Inside Defense last week.
The Army is moving along with building a platform to train AI models that will be shared across units that was first started last year, officials from the service's Artificial Intelligence Task Force told Inside Defense in a recent interview.
The Army yesterday announced Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey as the new director in charge of tactical network modernization, according to an announcement made by the service's chief of staff.
The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, AL, will host in March a series of virtual fiscal year 2021 advance planning briefings for industry to discuss "modernized sustainment concepts to enable large-scale combat operations," according to a notice posted today.
Sikorsky and Boeing today announced their official joint proposal for the Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, the DEFIANT X, as the Army gears up to issue a request for proposals for the effort this spring.
The Army's new chief information officer plans to put together a digital strategy and establish several mandates related to budget reform, among other initiatives starting this year.
The Army's team in charge of the integrated tactical network is conducting a communications exercise with key stakeholders ahead of Project Convergence 2021, while simultaneously planning to complete a formal program of record test with radios this month for its first capability set.
The Pentagon's chief weapons tester is recommending the Army improve and verify software reliability for the second initial operational test and evaluation of the service's UH-60V Black Hawk helicopters, after the first test was deemed inadequate.
The Army today announced it has entered into other transaction authority agreements with Palantir Technologies and Raytheon Intelligence and Space for a critical ground modernization effort.
The Pentagon is planning to give industry the first opportunity to demonstrate technology for its counter-drone efforts in April, according to the service official in charge of the Army-led Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office.