MARCH 28, 2019 - In response to increasingly complex threats, the U.S. Army is charting a clear path forward to provide flexible, agile and integrated air and missile defense forces capable of deploying, fighting and winning against any adversary. To communicate how the Air and Missile Defense, or AMD, enterprise is postured to synchronize efforts to execute multi-domain … [Read more...]

MARCH 22, 2019 - Since 1858, the U.S. Army has maintained fundamental physical fitness standard for Soldiers. Over the years, with multiple revisions, and changes, the importance of physical fitness is a benchmark to gauge the readiness of the force. According to Gen. Stephen Townsend, head of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, “The current Army Physical Fitness Test … [Read more...]

MARCH 21, 2019 - While Soldiers wear camouflage to blend into the environment, it is also important to ensure ground vehicles are not easily detected. The Army now has a new advanced coating system for ground vehicles that suppresses ground vehicle heat signatures, making the vehicles much more difficult to detect. The Ground Vehicle Coating System was developed by a joint … [Read more...]

MARCH 19, 2019 - As part of the release of the proposed fiscal year 2020 budget, more than $57 billion in a five-year defense plan will be dedicated to modernization and other signature Army programs, the Army's undersecretary said Thursday. In turn, the Army is offering "a tremendous opportunity" to industry officials that are willing to step up their research and … [Read more...]

MARCH 18, 2019 - Only months old, the Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force has already started pilot projects to find ways to speed up security clearances and analyze imagery for military activity. Split between the National Capital Region and Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh, the task force stood up in October as part of a … [Read more...]