The first joint flight test of a future hypersonic weapon will take place next year, followed by tests every six months until the weapon is fielded by fiscal year 2023, the chief of Army’s hypersonic program said last week. Under the joint venture, the Army is responsible for producing the weapon’s common glide body, which…
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US Army Tests New Methods to Extend Artillery Range, Power
If, in the words of Napoleon, “God fights on the side with the best artillery,” Picatinny Arsenal engineers are improving artillery to the point that there should be no doubt as to which side should be favored. The research team seeks to extend the range, power and versatility of artillery by using an “electrically-responsive” method…
Future Vertical Lift Getting Top-Notch Design Architecture
Future Vertical Lift, or FVL, is an initiative looking at the next-generation of rotorcraft for 2040 and beyond for the U.S. military. FVL recently added new architecture, which promises to increase safety and security and reduce cost overruns, delays and performance problems, according to Alex Boydston. It’s called Architecture Centric Virtual Integration Process, or ACVIP,…
US Army Patriot Systems Transition Into Digital Communications
New US Army Chief Dispels 4 Seductive Myths of Warfare
The Army “exists for a single purpose and none other: to fight and win wars in defense of the United States of America. That’s it. Fighting and winning wars is our raison d’être,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley said. Milley was keynote speaker at the Dwight David Eisenhower Luncheon, hosted by the…
US Army Flies UAV In National Airspace for First Time
The 1st Infantry Division made history Sept. 30 by flying an unmanned aerial system for the first time in the Army in Federal Aviation Administration-controlled airspace. Soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., launched an RQ-7B Shadow UAS from Fort Riley along an approved air corridor and navigated it back utilizing…
Army Engineers Demonstrate Anti-Drone Technology
Army Network Stays Connected Even When ‘Jumping the TOC’
Brigade and battalion command posts, the heart of battlefield operations, are more mobile and agile than ever before, and through ongoing improvements in network capability, the Army is increasing their ability to move forward in the fight while retaining commanders’ critical situational awareness. Current technologies such as Warfighter Information Network Tactical, known as WIN-T, Increment…
Team Tobyhanna streamlines Nett Warrior fielding process
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. — Team Tobyhanna is helping connect Soldiers to cutting-edge technology, which gives leaders the ability to soundlessly maneuver and track a unit’s movements on the battlefield using a handheld device. Several shops here are supporting the U.S. Army’s Nett Warrior system that provides warfighters secure and mobile voice, video and data…
Picatinny ammo goes from regular to unleaded
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (July 1, 2013) — If you use the expression “get the lead out” around members of a special technical team here working on the Army’s 5.56mm and 7.62mm enhanced performance ammunition programs, don’t expect them to move more quickly. That’s because the expression has an entirely different meaning to this select group…
LandWarNet modernization one key to Army future
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 28, 2013) — Even as forces draw down in Afghanistan and budgets are reduced, modernization of the Army network will not stagnate, said the service’s chief information officer. “We ensure Soldiers have the best capability available to them, everything over IP; high-definition, full-motion video; unlimited bandwidth, whatever request they’ve needed…
UAV pilots maintain situational awareness above battlefield
FORT IRWIN, Calif. (May 23, 2013) — Unmanned aerial vehicle pilots maintain an “eye-in-the-sky” view providing real-time surveillance high above the battlefield in order to keep Soldiers safe from unexpected “enemy” attacks, at the U.S. Army National Training Center, here. Before putting Soldiers in harm’s way, military unmanned aerial vehicles, known as UAVs, perform aerial…
Knee brace puts ‘a spring in your step’
NATICK, Mass. (May 23, 2013) — Weight, hinge design, and assistive power of a quasi-passive exoskeleton were studied at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center here to see how these factors affect the way an individual walks. The study, done in conjunction with Yale University, also measured how much energy a…