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Budget Cuts Force Army to Delay Production of New Apache Helicopters
Army planners are rethinking how their service will acquire 700 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters over the next 14 years in light of declining procurement budgets. InsideDefense reported on March 6 that the Army’s fiscal 2014 budget request will defer any new production of the service’s airborne tank-killer until 2018 at the earliest, relying entirely on [...]
Army outreach cut by sequestration
Aerial demonstrations have been halted. Army band performances and the Army Birthday Ball are canceled. Communities across America are seeing less of the United States Army because of sequestration. The across-the-board budget cuts are drastically impacting a very visible mission of the Army, engaging and interacting with the American people. The Army has a wide [...]
Army studies range from virtual marksmanship to waste water reuse
Army commands can start thinking now about submitting study proposals to the Army Study Program Management Office for consideration this summer. Meghan Mariman, director of the Army Study Program Management Office, known as ASPMO, which is part of G-8 at the Pentagon, said that each year, her office pays for about 30 studies at the [...]
Gray Eagle completes initial operational testing, evaluation
The U.S. Army’s Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system recently completed a successful initial operational testing and evaluation at the Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. During the initial operational testing and evaluation, or IOT&E, the Gray Eagle platform was operated from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and employed in an operational and realistic [...]
Sikorsky, Boeing Propose X2 Technology Helicopter Design for US Army
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Boeing will submit a joint proposal to build a demonstrator aircraft — based on Sikorsky’s X2 Technology rotorcraft design — for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) Phase 1 program. The JMR TD program supports the Army’s Future Vertical Lift initiative to deliver the next generation of vertical [...]
Army Aviation Looking To Overcome ‘Degraded Visual Environment’
Army acquisition officials are pursuing solutions to help aircraft crews navigate through what is called a “degraded visual environment.” A degraded visual environment, or DVE, is a circumstance wherein weather, obscurants or obstacles thwart the ability of a crew to see properly or accurately know where they are in relation to surrounding terrain, service officials [...]
Savings served up for Bradley armor plates
When a military contractor approached the Army with a proposal for significant savings on armor tiles for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the impulse to quickly go for the savings had to be postponed: The Bradley played such an important role in saving lives that keeping a steady flow of contracts was paramount. Ultimately, however, the [...]
Sequestration may affect reset from Afghanistan
The reset of equipment returning from Afghanistan may be affected by sequestration, said the commander of U.S. Army Materiel Command. The cancellation of reset would affect post-combat repair for about 1,000 vehicles, 14,000 communications devices and 17,000 weapons, Gen. Dennis Via, commander of U.S. Army Materiel Command, or AMC, told an audience of about 500 [...]
Self-cleaning clothing: wear without wear
Imagine a world without dirty clothes. Quoc Truong, physical scientist at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, wants to make that a reality. “As a single father of four, I fully understand the rationale for self-cleaning clothing, especially when I look back to the time when my children were younger,” Truong said. “So, when [...]


