The Army's Training and Doctrine Command today officially established a new organization to oversee joint force integration and much of the development work for the service's Future Force.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
The Army's Training and Doctrine Command today officially established a new organization to oversee joint force integration and much of the development work for the service's Future Force.
Lt. Gen. George Casey has been nominated for Army vice chief of staff, a position that will be vacated when Gen. John Keane retires next month.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Bergantz, who heads the Army's aviation program executive office, has announced his plans to retire next July, according to a Sept. 18 e-mail the two-star sent to his staff.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Yakovac has been nominated for promotion to the military deputy position within the office of the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.
The Army's Future Combat System lead system integrator team today added three more companies to its list of industry partners, leaving the smallest class of unmanned aerial vehicles as the only FCS procurement area still up for grabs.
Efforts to jointly manage the Joint Tactical Radio System have failed to unite the services around the program and could lead to development delays of more than a year, according to a General Accounting Office report released today.
In one of its final moves before a month-long recess, the Senate last night confirmed the nomination of Peter Schoomaker as Army chief of staff.
With Army troops stretched thin across the globe and force commitments in Iraq not expected to decrease in the near future, the service must review its active-duty troop levels, according to Peter Schoomaker, the administration's nominee for Army chief of staff.
The Pentagon is standing up five review panels to support Defense Department decision-makers in analyzing and prioritizing warfighting requirements for the future force.
The Army today awarded General Dynamics subsidiary Eagle Enterprise Inc. a $100 million contract for the service's Objective Force Warrior program.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki will complete his four-year term as the service's top uniformed officer -- as well as his military career -- June 11.
Army chief scientist Michael Andrews will step down from his post later this month and join L-3 Communications, according to an internal Army e-mail circulated today.
Pentagon acquisition chief Pete Aldridge yesterday signed the acquisition decision memorandum for the Army's Future Combat Systems program, officially propelling it into the $14.9 billion system development and demonstration phase.
Dust and scattered Iraqi forces forced the Army's 101st Airborne Division to forgo nighttime deep attack operations using the AH-64 Apache helicopter, and rely instead on the aircraft to conduct deep armed reconnaissance missions during the day, the division's commander, Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, said today.
The Army Systems Acquisition Review Council last week approved Increment 1 of the Future Combat Systems to enter into system development and demonstration, the service said today.
Maj. Gen. Steven Boutelle has been nominated to serve as the Army's chief information officer (G-6), according to an April 15 Defense Department announcement.
The Army announced today that it has awarded General Dynamics Decision Systems a $19.9 million contract for Blocks II and III of the Prophet ground-based signals intelligence program.
The Defense Department lacks adequate stores of vaccine for the botulinum toxin, a fast-acting and potentially lethal biological agent, top Army officials involved in chemical and biological defense said today.
The Army has awarded a $59.9 million research and development contract for the Land Warrior Block II program to a team of contractors led by General Dynamics' Decision Systems business unit, according to a service official.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and 15 other senators have sent Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a letter urging adequate funding in the fiscal year 2004 budget to establish, equip and train an additional 23 full-time Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.