Although the United States Army has been strategically prioritizing the “Army of 2030” recently, the service’s modernization goals don’t stop there. Today, Army leaders are looking even further into the future and preparing for fights well beyond the next decade. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Arm...
At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Air Force Summit on July 18, retired Maj. Gen. Lee Levy said that too often, commentators reduce the conundrum of carrying out warfighting logistics in a contested environment to simply getting goods and services to the battlefield on time. While this is an important piece of the contested logistics puzzle,...
Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC and STRCW) has established an artificial intelligence-focused business segment to cater to the demands of the defense market, and selected Denis Garagic, the company’s chief technology officer, to lead the new unit. The Advanced Technologies division will market Sarcos’ AI and machine learning...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
As competition ramps up in space, the evolving domain has taken center stage among U.S. Department of Defense priorities. Ensuring dominance in this novel warfighting environment requires a number of new capabilities, but to keep pace with adversaries, they must be developed and deployed more quickly than ever before. Tasked with developing, fi...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will equip Wright Patterson Air Force Base with computer systems under a $26.5 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army. The Department of Defense said Thursday funds for the delivery and installation of HPE computers at the air base in Ohio were covered by the Army’s fiscal year 2023 other...
Pratt & Whitney, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a $256.3 million contract option by Naval Air Systems Command to maintain fielded F-35 propulsion systems for domestic and international military customers. The engine builder will support depot-level F135 maintenance and repair activities under the exercised option, the Department o...
Each year, the federal government allocates substantial funding toward defense and security contracts. Government agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the US Armed Forces, tap into the expertise of multiple companies dedicated to developing and providing cutting-edge solutions for defense and warfare initiatives across various domains, su...
To maintain preparedness for current and future conflicts, the U.S. Army has embraced the “Army of 2030,” a momentous modernization effort designed to shift the service branch’s priorities to fit the characteristics of today’s international competition and deploy the technologies necessary to succeed in the evolving battlefield. The pla...
A business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will supply drones for the U.S. Army’s aerial target activity under a firm-fixed-price contract worth $95 million over five years. The service is procuring subscale unmanned aerial target systems from Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems and will determine funds upon issuance ...
