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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 22, 2021 at 12:32 PM
A soldier refuels his gas-guzzling MRAP armored truck in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON: How do you recharge electric vehicles on the battlefield? Army Futures Command is looking for out-of-the-box ideas, so it’s awarded $600,000 in concept development grants to six companies that don’t normally do business with the military.
Refueling Army formations is a huge logistical problem – fuel convoys in Afghanistan and Iraq were often more dangerous than combat patrols – but moving from fossil fuel to electric vehicles raises logistical dilemmas of its own. There’s no infrastructure of charging stations (or gas pumps) on the battlefield, so you need a fast way to transfer power in difficult places.
US Army picks 5 innovators to help increase its howitzer firing rate 3 hours ago
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground conducts developmental testing of multiple facets of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery project, from artillery shells to the longer cannon tube and larger firing chamber the improved howitzer will need to accommodate them. (Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well as in future systems, Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s Long-Range Precision Fires modernization efforts, told Defense News on April 15.
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By Lauren C. Williams
Mar 03, 2021
The Defense Department will likely have to look even deeper for cost-savings as flat budget looms for 2022 and beyond.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the chairman for the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that while topline budget numbers don t adequately reflect value, the Pentagon and military services should look for cost-savings and where reinvestments can be made. One of the ironies of the Budget Control Act was that it was designed to reduce the deficit but after a while it actually became a force to, I think, increase spending because Republicans want strong defense spending. We re 50-50 split and we would get strong domestic spending and ironically it led to the budget you ve seen the last few years. That s now gone, Reed told reporters Feb. 24 during a Defense Writers Group virtual event.
AUSTIN, Texas (February 24, 2021) - The Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), Network-Cross Functional Team (N-CFT) and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR (Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Center are asking small U.S. companies for proposals to provide more secure communications to Soldiers operating in contested environments. The Low-Cost, Low Probability of Detection (LC/LPD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) opportunity announced today seeks solutions that work seamlessly with existing directional communications systems and that use an undetectable waveform that allows for secure communications when Soldiers operate near adversaries or in areas where high radio traffic creates interference.