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US Army’s Precision Strike Missile breaks range record May 12 Lockheed Martins PrSM missile was tested for a third time at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on April 30, 2020. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile ranged 400 kilometers — roughly 250 miles — in a test shot at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on May 12, Lockheed Martin announced. The test marks the farthest the PrSM has flown so far, which is roughly the distance betwee...

8 When Command Sgt. Maj. William “Shane” Stockard first enlisted into the Army at age 24, he wasn’t even entirely sure what being an infantry Soldier meant. But 22 years later, Stockard will be helping forge the future of infantry as senior enlisted advisor at the U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command. Stockard was working in the restaurant business in Amarillo, Texas, when he realized he needed a change in his life. Besides a grandfather who passed away the year he was bo...

By   Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 12:45 PM Lockheed Martin’s Project Hydra WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has demonstrated a capability for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to share situational awareness data in flight — via a U-2 spy plane kitted out with the company’s ‘translation’ software, says Dan Markham, Skunk Works director of JADO/BMC2. Lockheed also transmitted data from the F-35 to a ground station using a Navy datalink, TTNT, and then on from there to an ...

How Much Will America Spend on the Military in 2022? America does need to get its fiscal house in order, but cutting the defense budget could come with many tradeoffs including harming the innovations needed to win future wars. Some U.S. lawmakers and senior Army leaders are anticipating the upcoming 2022 military budget with some trepidation, out of a concern that key focus areas such as modernization and manpower may be asked to absorb cuts.  Of course, U.S. Army leaders, advocates, and m...

Why We Need the Advanced Battle Management System Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Why We Need the Advanced Battle Management System The character of war is changing; ABMS provides the tools for effective command and control into the future. May 6, 2021 As each service branch looks to the future of joint command and control, we seem to be swimming in a sea of new terms and initiatives: CJADC2, JCC2, Project Convergence, Project Overma...

Hughes and OneWeb working to fill military’s Arctic communication gap May 6 The OneWeb gateway in Svalbard, Norway, capable of 10,000 hand-offs per second, is one of the gateways developed by Hughes that will orchestrate handover and tracking of gigabits of data for NORTHCOM. (OneWeb/Kongsberg Satellite Service) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is teaming up with Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb to test how the latter’s new commercial broadband satellites could fill the military’s ...

Program lead Maj. Vito Errico said the project is focused on helping the Army figure out how to organize product teams for the future force.

Critical F-35, F-22 and U-2 Data Enhanced Operating Picture During Flight Test Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, the Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Air Force successfully linked a U-2, five F-35s and an F-22 in air and provided real-time 5th Generation data to operators on the ground, introducing greater mission flexibility across domains and an enhanced total operational picture for the joint warfighter. Named Project Hydra, the latest flight test leveraged an Open Systems Gateway (OSG) payl...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 04, 2021 at 12:29 PM An Army soldier sets up a highband antenna in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: The Army’s eager to exploit fast-moving commercial tech, from data fabrics to communications satellites, as it urgently upgrades its battlefield networks. But what works for civilians — or even for the other services — won’t always work for ground troops dispersed across the globe in the mud and dirt. A simple example? Power cables. “A commercial off-the-s...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 03, 2021 at 12:02 PM An experimental Army robot, nicknamed Origin, during the Project Convergence 20 exercise at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. WASHINGTON: The Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is teaching AIs to share data and decide which intel is good enough to show a human, AITF experts told me. The tech will be tested in the service’s annual Project Convergence wargames this fall. Douglas Matty The objective isn’t to usurp a human’s role i...