Three four-star US Army generals this week weighed in with their opinions about finding the right balance between conventional and high-tech munitions – but the answers aren’t easy.
By Ashley RoqueWhat’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
The service has not yet released its new tactical fires study, but officials have begun previewing possible artillery changes.
By Ashley Roque
“The initial focus areas [will be] multi-domain sensor dominance, which is our way of saying, ‘We found ourselves in a situation where we actually don’t have a sensing problem, we have a problem doing something with all the sensing that’s happening. [It’s a] problem across the joint force,” said Gen. James Rainey.
By Ashley Roque
“Every time it’s like, go watch one [robotic tactical vehicle] follow another one around the parking lot and it runs over the curb and I’m like, ‘Come on, we got to do better than this,” Gen. James Rainey said today.
By Ashley Roque
“Expect to see as the [program manager] comes out with the acquisition strategy, a lot of competition investments,” said Army Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo.
By Ashley Roque Observing Ukraine, Gen James Rainey told Breaking Defense, “We’re a joint force and every domain matters, but the land domain is absolutely decisive. That remains unchanged.”
By Ashley Roque
“Contested logistics are hard enough without running a resupply operation and not getting the right thing: There’s a lot of room there for progress,” Gen. James Rainey told Breaking Defense.
By Ashley Roque
Military innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
“My brigade combat team was responsible for a third of Iraq, hell, everything from drinking chai to chasing Iranians. That’s not the future,” said Army Futures Command Gen. James Rainey.
By Ashley Roque
“Whenever we fly in our own territorial waters, we are challenged by the Chinese, challenged because they say we are in their territory, when in fact it is our territory,” Lt. Gen. Romeo Browner, commanding general of the Philippine Army said.
By Colin Clark
Lt. Gen. James Rainey, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training is earmarked for Austin, Texas.
By Andrew Eversden
WASHINGTON: “Everybody’s got to change,” Army Gen. David Perkins told me last week. But can the biggest, most bureaucratic, and most fractious service really break a 12-year streak of cancelled multi-billion-dollar programs? It turns out the Army is already taking some important steps. A new doctrine and a long-range planning process instituted two years ago have begun to…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
