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Active-duty force set to shrink amid tight labor market as service leaders propose a 1.7% 2023 budget.

Learning from Turkish drone success in Ukraine, Army pulls in money to counter unmanned aerial vehicles. One analyst called the service's counter-drone cash surge "extraordinary."

Who is to blame? A seemingly clear-cut answer to this accursed question relevant for the country’s current security concern has

The Army boasts that about two-thirds of its modernization priority programs will be in various stages of prototyping by fiscal 2023.

As "linchpin service," Army sees logistical, communications and, yes, combat roles in possible conflict.

The European Theater Fires Command was deactivated in 1991 after the signing of the INF. Now the Army views is as critical to long-range fires in multi-domain operations.

“Yet another leap for the Army’s long-range strike plans.”

The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.

Army Chief of Staff said modernization efforts are "already paying off."

Its quite the impressive shopping list. On May 28, the Department of Defense released its $752.9 billion defense budget request for 2022—a document which will almost certainly be subject to the extensive back-and-forth in Congress before being signed into law. Though the budget will certainly be revised, it nonetheless serves as a guide to the Biden-era Department of Defense’s priorities, with a record $112 billion devoted to research and development of future technologies at the expense of...