The traditional approach to updating U.S. military hardware — spending years and billions of dollars on next-generation designs — is no longer working for the Army and the Marine Corps as they seek replacements for their combat vehicles.
While the shadow of uncertainty has been cast on a promising vehicle survivability technology known as the “structural blast chimney” due to the cancellation of the Army’s competitive humvee recapitalization program, it may be revived for the upcoming Joint Light Tactical Vehicle competition, Inside the Army has learned from sources and officials.
Major acquisition programs fail more often than not/…/
The U.S. Navy lacks a target needed to check its defenses against a new Chinese ballistic missile designed to attack multibillion-dollar aircraft carriers, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester.
Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between $850,000 and $1.4 million a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up.
As Republicans and Democrats drew the battle lines last week for a yearlong, two-front war over the 2013 Defense budget, their attack plans looked familiar.
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