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Army seeks nominees for outstanding electronic warfare unit
WASHINGTON: The Army Electronic Warfare Division at the Pentagon is currently soliciting nominations for the 2009 Army Outstanding Unit Award. Army units that can demonstrate success operating in an electronic warfare or information operations environment and have furthered the importance of electronic warfare are eligible to apply. Electronic warfare is the management of the electromagnetic [...]
Improved battery technology sitting unordered in Army inventory
FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. — Soldiers are carrying unnecessary weight into battle because many units do not realize that newer, lighter batteries with more capacity are sitting unordered in the Army supply channel. As part of its awareness campaign, the U.S. Army Power Division of the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center featured the improved capabilities [...]
Eurocopter to Retrofit German Army CH-53G Helicopters
PARIS AIR SHOW: On June 18th, Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH and the German Federal Agency for Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) signed a contract at the Paris Air Show to retrofit one prototype followed by a further 25 of the German Army’s CH53 GS/GE transport helicopters with the capability to perform personnel recovery missions. The contract [...]
Army moves to privatize on-post lodging
WASHINGTON: Soldiers in a temporary duty or permanent change of station status who need lodging aboard Army installations will begin to see improvements in those accommodations as the service moves to privatize lodging at 10 posts beginning Aug. 15. Under the privatization of Army lodging or PAL program which followed in the footsteps of the [...]
Pakistan army chief takes flight over battle zone
Islamabad: Pakistan’s army chief Monday took a fighter jet trip over the northwest region where troops are battling Taliban militants, and vowed to defend the nation “at all costs”, an official statement said. General Ashfaq Kayani, joined by the air force chief, visited soldiers at an operating base before the trip on an F-16, a [...]
Army, UK forces successful in future network interoperability testing
WASHINGTON: Both representatives of the U.S. Army and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence have said recent Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization network interoperability tests between the two partner nations have proven successful. The recently concluded Multinational Experiment 3.0, held at Fort Monmouth, N.J., tested the ability of the networks of U.K. forces and Army [...]
Army takes new approach to suicide prevention
BAGHDAD, Iraq: As the number of Soldiers committing suicide continues to rise, the Army’s suicide prevention campaign shifts its focus to junior leaders in an effort to arm them with the tools they need to help their Soldiers before a problem reaches a tragic end. A recent Army study shows that 60 percent of suicides [...]
Army publishes first National Guard retirement guide
WASHINGTON: The Army has published a 56-page retirement guide for National Guard Soldiers and their families which covers subjects ranging from retirement point credits to how to apply for retirement pay. The Army National Guard Information Guide on Non-Regular Retirement was a collaboration between the Army G-1 retirement services division and the National Guard. “We [...]
Army Orders Surface Launched Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles
TEWKSBURY: Raytheon Company’s Surface Launched Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) program has received U.S. Army approval for a long-lead acquisition, not to exceed $30 million, for long-lead purchases leading to low rate initial production. This approval is significant as it represents and underscores the Army’s confidence in the system and the capability it brings to [...]
