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Army Approves Billion-Dollar Deal to Improve Housing Conditions at 6 Bases A member of the Fort Drum Residential Communities Initiative/Housing Division inspection team checks out a house on Sept. 17, 2019. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs) 27 Jan 2021 The U.S. Army announced a $1.1 billion deal with a private management firm to provide private funds to improve housing conditions for thousands of soldiers and their families at six of the service's installations. The service approved the Jan. 5 deal with Lendlease, a company that has partnered with it to own and opera...

U.S. Space Command is heading to Redstone Arsenal.

3 FORT DETRICK, Md. -- In order to bolster the current fight against the global pandemic, U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command has spent the last several months tailoring packages of essential COVID-19 supplies. This initiative has been executed utilizing multiple procurement options in collaboration with both the Defense Logistics Agency-Troop Support and the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity. In a Dec. 11 meeting with Army Materiel Command leaders, AMLC Commander Brig. Gen. Michael Lalor said the teams have worked together to ensure unit deployment packages, or...

Gen. Ed Daly For years, Army Materiel Command has spread its limited modernization funding more or less evenly across its dozens of facilities, giving each of them enough for marginal, incremental improvements but never enough for a true top-to-bottom overhaul. The new modernization plan, Daly said, is meant to change that by prioritizing some facilities for higher funding – which means, in a “zero-sum” budget, that others will get less. “If we do this correctly, we could do it as a zero sum,” Daly told me. “We don’t necessarily have to pay more money. All we have to do is inve...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 15, 2020 at 6:26 PM BAE Systems’s prototype for the Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) light tank. WASHINGTON: The pandemic has disrupted a second BAE Systems armored vehicle program, this time delaying deliveries of prototype Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles to the Army’s 18 th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg. Earlier this year, problems with COVID and quality control at BAE’s York, Penn. factory delayed delivery of BAE’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle – the replacement for the vulnerable, Vietnam-vintage M113 – by several months....