The Army wants flexible funding from Congress on electronic warfare to more easily move money around programs to focus on priority areas.
Officials are finding from Ukraine’s conflict with Russia that the technology landscape can change in days, not months. As a result, the Army is pitching the need for fiscal nimbleness to be able to make changes to systems on the battlefield or procurement efforts to get soldiers the capabilities they require.
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The Ukraine-Russia war appears on a knife-edge as rivals backers could be drawn into the conflict, while Russia continues to make gains.
One of, if not the top, priority for the Army’s intelligence task force is figuring out how to put AI against the vast amounts of data collected from a variety of platforms.
“We are drowning in data. I see data as both a challenge but also an opportunity. That’s essentially what AI is for our Army. It’s an opportunity. AI presents opportunities for progress more than any other technology we have seen in the last few decades,” Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, deputy chief of staff, G2, said during a presentation at the annual AUSA conference Wednesday.
Ukraine’s so-called victory plan calls fo
The U.S. military carried out a series of air strikes across Yemen on Wednesday, using B-2 Spirit bombers to hit weapon caches in the country.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the strikes in a statement, describing the targets as “five hardened underground weapons storage locations in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.”
U.S. Central Command further detailed the targets in a statement, saying they were used to house “missiles, weapons components, and other munitions used to target military and civilian vessels throughout the region.
Ukraine is set to receive additional weapons and equipment contribution from the Australian and US governments.
BAE Systems has a partnership with Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace to introduce the ICS, elevating battlefield capabilities for US forces.
On behalf of Lithuania, OCCAR signed a contract amendment to expand the nation’s Boxer Vilkas IFV fleet with 27 more units.
AFP PODS host L Todd Wood speaks with retired Israeli General Yossi Kuperwasser on the situation on the ground in the Middle East.
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The U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, U.S. officials confirmed, reported AP.
Last night, the US military attacked five underground warehouses of the Houthis’ advanced military equipment in the provinces of Sana’a and Sa’ada in Yemen. For the first time since the beginning of the war, the US military used the B-2 heavy bombers and not with fighter planes, reported Amir Tsarfati.