31 Army Priority Programs News Today

In plant tour, Sikorsky official says "hundreds" of parts could be 3D printed if chosen for Army's high-profile FARA and FLRAA competitions.

While the world waits for the Army's full budget picture, service officials provided some details on the funding profile for Future Vertical Lift, IVAS and the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.

The Army 'did not need to look' at its modernization accounts to fund its budget, but Strykers and Abrams see procurement cuts in the fiscal 2023 request.

"There’s a supplier base, for example, underneath the primes that we have to also be aware of," the Army's acquisition chief said of balancing cuts to older platforms with modernization.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she doesn't see Ukraine crisis affecting Army's modernization push.

After Breaking Defense noted a discrepancy in lists provided by the Army, the service revised the number of programs that would be impacted by a year-long continuing resolution.

The Next Generation Squad Weapons program is one of the Army's 35 modernization priorities.

“We spend a lot of time thinking about what is and what can be, and we spend almost no time thinking about what could be,” Murray said.

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM Gen. Mike Murray WASHINGTON: It’s crunch time for Army modernization, with almost two dozen high-priority programs scheduled to field tech to combat troops in the next four years. That means a major increase in costs – from science experiments to serial production – just as the budget is dropping, with the Army widely pegged as the big bill-payer. Now, that fiscal crunch is not a foregone conclusion, emphasized the chief of Army F...