U.S. Army

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The RCCTO and the U.S. Army’s Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center have been developing autonomous ground systems.

The Army has four planned increments for the long-range missile, looking for an ultimate range of more than 1,000 km (621 mi.).

The command is transitioning to the Mavan Smart System.

The company has received four letters of request for price and availability for IBCS from undisclosed countries.

IFPC currently fires the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile for ground-launched air defense.

The Army has been progressing on LRPM with a series of tests using the Rafael-built Spike Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) missile.

Brig. Gen. Frank Lozano, the program executive officer for Missiles and Space, laid out four planned competitions for next year.

The concept of missile defeat involves two elements, according to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

The signing of the Milestone B acquisition decision memorandum earlier this week comes 20 months after Bell won a four-year-long competition.

Senate appropriators are seeking to reverse some of the Pentagon’s proposed development cutbacks as part of an $852.2 billion fiscal 2025 defense spending bill.

Germany says it now expects its umbrella contract for Boeing CH-47F Chinooks to be signed several months later than planned.

The service in 2023 awarded contracts to SES Space & Defense.

The service sees advantages to hybrid-electric systems over battery-powered propulsion.

Both the U.S. and European members used the alliance’s latest summit to push new missile initiatives.

Acquisition and budget documents point to the quiet emergence of a third capability: signals intelligence.

The deployments will include “developmental hypersonic weapons.”

A cannon-fired, off-board-guided, hypervelocity projectile could become a new, low-cost layer of the U.S. Army’s defenses against air and missile threats.

Frank Kendall has spent his time as secretary working to reshape the Air Force—but will his work outlast him?

The next U.S. Army multiyear contract for Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks is expected to include up to 255 helicopters over five years starting in 2027.

The Corps’ notorious Force Design 2030 plan, first released in 2021, reshaped the service through major steps such as a famous decision to get rid of tanks.

Boeing on June 28 delivered the first CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopter to the U.S. Army.

The Arlington, Virginia-based defense technology named itself as one of two finalists for the Army’s Next Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM) program.

The region is going shopping to address defense shortfalls, with counter-UAS on most countries’ lists.

The UAS—a Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. Teros—and payload system completed a five-day Joint Capability Technology Demonstration.