Army Archives

Army awards contract to Bombardier Defense for service’s first jet aimed at deep sensing

The deal for a Global 6500 platform will support prototyping efforts for the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES).

Jan 3, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

Soldiers assigned to 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade, pull security for a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during Operation Combined Victory, on Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Aug. 18, 2023. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Molly Morrow)

Army looking to industry to provide options for mobile command posts

The Army is altering its approach for its Command Post Integrated Infrastructure program.

Dec 21, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

Tactical radios are driving force behind the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) suite of communications and networking hardware and software that provides voice and data communication capabilities to tactical units, and were employed by the 25th Infantry Division throughout the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) 24-01 exercise, held at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, in November 2023. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army/Sam Brooks)

A division got to test the Army’s upgraded network gear

For the first time, a division got to experiment with the Army's Integrated Tactical Network.

Dec 20, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Army Soldiers conduct M4 Rifle qualification during the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) Best Squad Competition 2023, at Lightning Academy, Hawaii, June 5, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Mariah Aguilar, 28th Public Affairs Detachment)

Army taking modular, microservice approach to next-generation fires system

The Army is planning to break the modernized AFATDS system into three applications or microservices.

Dec 19, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to “Wild Bill” Platoon, 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment and 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment conduct electronic warfare training during Combined Resolve XV, Feb. 23, 2021 at the Hohenfels Training Area. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Julian Padua)

Commonality, adaptability will be key for Army to stay ahead of electronic warfare threats

Open systems architectures will help the Army stay ahead of threats and concepts as they rapidly evolve within the electromagnetic spectrum.

Dec 18, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

An AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial system (UAS) team assigned to the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, conduct training at Jaworze, Poland on November 22, 2023. Ravens UAS are used to provide day or night aerial intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance missions to support Operation European Assure Deter and Reinforce. (Photo by U.S. Army Maj. Arturo Rodriguez)

Army working with CDAO to design interoperable data architectures

The Army is working to improve the data and architectures it uses to pass information across other services and international partners.

Dec 15, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Englehardt, the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of the operations section for the 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, which is deployed to support 1st Theater Sustainment Command, gauges wind speed near the Camp Buehring, Kuwait, drop zone for the April 22, 2021 air drop of four bundles using the Joint Precision Air Delivery System, JPADS. Englehardt said JPADS uses the Modular Autonomous Guidance Unit, or MAGU, to manipulate the the parafoil’s rigging to steer it using GPS to reach its programmed coordinates. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

Space Development Agency, Army collaborating on alternative PNT capabilities

“We’re working very closely with the Army, who’s been pioneering the alt-PNT across the Department of Defense,” SDA Director Derek Tournear said.

Dec 7, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

Switchblade 600 rendering (AeroVironment image)

Army wants more vendors, more money for LASSO kamikaze drones

The Army has big plans for its Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance program.

Dec 6, 2023 By Jon Harper

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) is expected to subsume the functionality of the Army’s legacy ground stations including the Advanced Miniaturized Data Acquisition System, Advanced Remote Ground Terminal, and Tactical Intelligence Ground Station. (Army photo)

Next phase of Army’s TITAN ground station will include 2 variants

Following an award early next year, the Army plans to carve out a basic and advanced variant of its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program.

Dec 6, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. During the raid helicopters airlifted 4 of the battery’s howitzers and transported them to a landing zone where they were then set up and utilized to engage a simulated enemy target. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)

Army planning new start for theater-level signals intelligence

The Theater Signals Intelligence System, or TSIG, will be a conglomeration of capabilities in the field formalized into a single program of record.

Dec 5, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau