MARCH 12, 2024 - The Defense Department today announced additional security assistance for Ukraine. Included in this assistance are artillery rounds and rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. The package totals $300 million. This latest round of presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, is the first this year and was made possible after the Army negotiated a … [Read more...]

MARCH 11, 2024 - The brain is a delicate, complex organ. It drives executive functions, controls physiological processes, moderates emotions, and serves as a data bank for the human experience. During combat operations, U.S. servicemembers don gear like body armor, ballistic eyewear, gloves, and gas masks to protect their bodies, while medical personnel serve to treat and heal … [Read more...]

MARCH 6, 2024 — The U.S. Army will host multiple sessions on innovation, technology and national security during the 2024 South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference, which takes place in Austin the first two weeks of March. SXSW’s focus on discovery, learning, professional development and networking with creatives from around the world aligns with the Army’s commitment to … [Read more...]

MARCH 6, 2024 — 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers who normally take their Abrams tanks, STRYKER and Bradley combat vehicles to the field are testing a new virtual synthetic training environment indoors. “We’re helping the Army develop its Synthetic Training Environment; what we call STE,” said Brig. Gen. George C. Hackler, commander of the U.S. Army Operational Test … [Read more...]

MARCH 5, 2024 – The Launched Effects (LE) program recently achieved a key milestone with the first system flight tests of the Launched Effects-Medium Range (LE-MR) prototype system. The Program Executive Office Aviation’s (PEO Aviation) Project Manager, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (PM UAS) conducted the tests over an eight-day period during the middle of February. Aurora … [Read more...]