The three-day demonstration comes just weeks after Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., sparred during a congressional hearing over the effectiveness of the system.
The letter comes a month after the Falls Church, Va.-based defense contractor and its subcontractors deployed hundreds of lobbyists on Capitol Hill to lobby against the Army’s proposal to shift funding from WIN-T and other acquisition programs.
In its first policy offering, Strategic Landpower Task Force defends the need for Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Forces from budget cuts.
The product is one of a handful under review this month as part of the Army’s so-called Network Integration Evaluation.
Vice Adm. Richard Hunt, head of the LCS Council, spoke with reporters Wednesday to explain the steps taken to address problems found in the Navy’s LCS report.
Leadership continued to try to protect its top vehicle modernization priority as Congress grilled them on the cost and need of a Bradley replacement.
The Army’s planned Ground Combat Vehicle “is a highly viable program,” and its “unconventional” approach to get Apaches to Afghanistan is needed, Army Secretary John McHugh said.
The Army says it didn’t reject a request for commercial software to gather intelligence.
Amos told Congress Thursday the Marine Corps will temporarily station 550 Marines in Spain to support AFRICOM.
The service is facing a potential funding shortfall of more than $15 billion this year.
Army officials correct confusion and explain that an analyst error led to announcement of 18-month delay to the Army’s top vehicle modernization priority.
The Pentagon plans to spend $558 million, or 5.7 percent, less than the $9.72 billion it requested for this year despite the threats coming from North Korea.
The Army’s base budget is the least of the three major services and 1.7 percent less than what the service is expected to receive this year.
Defense companies with Ground Combat Vehicle development contracts claim the Congressional Budget Office didn’t analyze the correct model for its study.
Congressional Budget Office issues a report that blasts Ground Combat Vehicle listing alternative vehicles as better options for the Army.
Congress includes $380 million in CR for MEADS in its final year of development even though Senate voted 94–5 to end funding for the controversial program.
The Defense Department recently released a list of the European-based units it plans to close down or relocate though 2016.
The Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle will likely survive the next decade of mandatory defense spending cuts if acquisition officials get there way.
Oskhosh, AM General and Lockheed Martin executives don’t expect a delay to significantly harm the Humvee replacement program.
Army Gen. Dennis Via explains the need to keep the defense industrial base afloat through an added boon of foreign military sales.
