Articles from ARMY Magazine, Headline News, and AUSA News on Army Modernization
The Army must prioritize modernization of the industrial base and integration of allies and partners as it works to more quickly deliver capabilities and maintenance to the front lines, a senior officer said.
The U.S. military should expand its thinking when it comes to anti-access/area-denial capabilities, a panel of experts said during a recent Association of the U.S. Army Hot Topic on fires.
Anti-access/area-denial, or A2/AD, refers to “actions or capabilities” that prevent adversarial forces from entering an operational theater, or that restrict their freedom of movement within a theater.
When it comes to manufacturing, the biggest challenge facing the Army is the service’s approach to it, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said.
“It’s a process change, that’s what we’ve got to get after,” George said Dec. 7 during a panel discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California. “I think that’s the biggest challenge we have.”
The Army would do well to double down on its close combat forces despite its cancellation of several modernization programs and its reduction in force structure, according to a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.
About 200 soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division tested the capabilities of the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon system from Sept. 1 to Oct. 30 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
The operational assessment included a range of weapon configurations, force-on-force engagements and static live-fire ranges, according to an Army news release.
Some of the lessons learned so far from the war in Ukraine have come into play as the Army considers how it will fight in the Indo-Pacific, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said.
The Army needs to leverage and build upon its current fleet of aircraft to lead in the air-ground littoral, a panel of aviation leaders said.
“We've got our current fleet of aircraft that are operating at a breakneck pace,” said Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, commanding general of the Army’s Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Novosel, Alabama. “We've got to leverage that current fleet.”
The character of war is rapidly evolving, and soldiers need to keep pace, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus said.
Facing global challenges, the Army is investing in technology and its industrial base to meet production and manufacturing capacity needs, the assistant Army secretary of acquisition, logistics and technology said.
In response to the proliferation of unmanned aerial systems, the Army should aim for proximal dominance of the air-ground littoral, according to the author of a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.
