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Pencils up: Bids are due for Army’s Bradley replacement and it’s only the beginning 2 hours ago U.S. Army 3rd Division 3-7 Bradley fighting vehicles take up a position along a road March 19, 2003, inside the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq. (Scott Nelson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The deadline to submit a preliminary design for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) is April 16, but the cutoff marks not the time for industry officials to put pencils down, b...

Lynx is designed to provide a cost-effective alternative to the Puma tracked IFV. (Photo: Rheinmetall) ​Partners American Rheinmetall Vehicles and L3Harris Technologies aim jointly to develop the US Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. American Rheinmetall Vehicles – subsidiary of Rheinmetall - and L3Harris Technologies have signed a teaming agreement to develop a solution for the US Armys Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) requirement.  The OMFV will replace the Bradl...

US Army Prepares for Possible Global Land Conflict with China The classic assumptions surrounding a possible war between the United States and China focus on regional naval battles in the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea, but U.S. Army Major General Richard Coffman recently stated that Americans must be and are already preparing for a worldwide ground conflict with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The development of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) under his leadership is one ...

More than a century ago, U.S. Navy captain Arthur Thayer Mahan argued in his seminal “The Influence of Seapower Upon History” that a maritime nation’s...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 08, 2021 at 12:02 PM An 82nd Airborne soldier trains with a Black Hornet mini-drone before deploying to Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: How do you make a platoon of foot soldiers ten times more effective? If your company has a new technology that might help, Army Futures Command wants to know by May 5th. That’s the deadline to submit ideas in AI, networking, and robotics for the Army’s “10x platoon” experiment, which is trying out tech to upgrade the fu...

Gen. John Murray In March, BD’s Sydney Freedberg and Theresa Hitchens sat down for an exclusive hour-long interview with Gen. John “Mike” Murray, chief of Army Futures Command: Click here for Part I, Part II, and Part III. There was so much good material in these interviews that we decided to print this extended excerpt, edited for length and clarity, focusing on the vital issue of Joint All Domain Command and Control. A: China is absolutely taking primacy in terms of pacing threats. It�...

“This is a journey to see whats possible, what can we do with todays technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” -- $23 million. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 05, 2021 at 2:42 PM

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 01, 2021 at 8:26 AM ALTIUS mini-drone in flight over Yuma Proving Ground. WASHINGTON: Venture-capital backed defense firm Anduril announced today it has acquired Area-I, maker of the ALTIUS multi-purpose mini-drone. In field experiments, ALTIUS has been launched from Air Force Special Operations AC-130 gunships and Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The mini-drone gives the larger, more expensive manned aircraft an expendable scout they can sent ahead in...

On 1 October 2020, the Chief of Naval Operations announced Project Overmatch, an initiative “to develop the networks, infrastructure, data architecture, tools, and analytics that support the operational and developmental environment that will enable our sustained maritime dominance.” This project will form the core of the Navy’s contribution to joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2, the Department of Defense–wide (DoD-wide) effort to unify information sharing across platforms a...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 17, 2021 at 2:24 PM A soldier tests the ENVG-B inight vision goggles n 2019. (Chris Bridson / Army) WASHINGTON: The Army aims to outmaneuver and outthink its adversaries so thoroughly it achieves “decision dominance,” its generals said in unison this week. Will the new term became the latest bureaucratic buzzword or shed real light on how the future force should fight? Gen. James McConville The Army must move faster, McConville, declared, both as an ...