Inside the Army highlights

By John Liang / June 18, 2018 at 5:00 AM

Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Army:

1. Lawmakers are lining up to support the Army's fast-track project to rapidly develop and field an air- and missile-defense system that can be bolted onto the Stryker vehicle, a potential billion-dollar effort to harden ground forces in Europe from Russian threats which service leaders did not formally validate until after the Pentagon submitted its fiscal year 2019 budget to Congress.

Full story: Lawmakers back Army's IM-SHORAD to counter low-flying Russian threats

2. With the Army's Futures Command stationing team having so far visited Boston, Raleigh and Austin as potential locations for its new headquarters, Inside Defense has learned that Philadelphia and Minneapolis are the two cities left awaiting site visits before the service makes its final decision.

Full story: Army picks five finalists for Futures Command location

3. The House Appropriations Committee has taken issue with the Army's path so far toward modernizing its Stryker vehicles, asking the service to submit a resourcing strategy for its desired A1 upgrade.

Full story: House appropriators find 'lack of consistency' in Army's Stryker plans

4. The Pentagon, on the heels of completing a review of its manufacturing industrial base, will soon begin studying whether U.S. industry is prepared to deliver the game-changing technologies the Defense Department seeks to field in the future.

Full story: Pentagon plans review of U.S. 'technology industrial base'

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