The Army's role in the Pentagon's shifting strategy on Asia is expected to come into focus over the summer as service leaders will wrap up a slate of initiatives aimed at staking out Army interests in the region, according to a senior service official.672 words

Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall late last month approved a new acquisition plan for the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, which could save the Army $1.75 billion over the next five years, according to a May 24 acquisition decision memorandum.785 words

Lawmakers and congressional staffers were recently briefed on the Army's new plans to host a humvee survivability demonstration that partly revives the canceled Medium Expanded Capacity Vehicle program, but forgoes a follow-up procurement strategy, according to sources and documents.565 words

The Army has made plans to field Raytheon's MAINGATE radio to a full battalion in next fall's Network Integration Evaluation, while so-called "mid-tier" Joint Tactical Radio System devices using the Wideband Networking Waveform have been excluded, according to Army and industry officials.755 words

Inside the Army will visit the Army Future Game scheduled to be held at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, this week. The service sees the game as the "capstone exercise of the year-long Unified Quest series of seminars and workshops," according to an email from Army Training and Doctrine Command. "UQ is the Army's future study mechanism and the Army chief of staff's tool to isolate and frame issues vital to current and future force development and to explore enduring operational issues."88 words

The Pentagon's top acquisition official recently signed a memo giving the Army full milestone decision authority over the Stryker family of vehicles, which Army and industry sources say will be used to launch a pilot program to reset flat-bottomed variants with double-V hulls. 554 words

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has placed a hold on the nomination of Heidi Shyu to become the Army's acquisition executive, the senator's office confirmed last week.636 words

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ManTech Telecommunications Information System Corp. was awarded a $250 million contract last week to sustain and support the Army's fleet of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, according to a service spokesman. The award could total nearly $3 billion if all future-year extension options are exercised.467 words

The Joint Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat Organization director wants the international fertilizer industry to help the military stop the global threat of IEDs by making their products less likely to detonate, incorporating dyes into ammonium nitrate fertilizer for better tracking and developing industry-wide regulations and safeguards to keep the substance from reaching makers of homemade explosive devices.697 words

The Army failed to set up its Logistics Modernization Program system to properly perform some functions related to purchasing and did not fix known material weaknesses, resulting in $10.6 billion in abnormal balances within its general ledger accounts, the Defense Department inspector general contends in a May 29 report.613 words

The Army's Intelligence and Security Command has been tasked with leading the intelligence community in advancing the fusion of multisource intelligence in an emerging cloud-computing infrastructure, the service's new deputy chief of staff for intelligence said last week.482 words

More than 10 industry teams representing platform, propulsion and mission equipment providers attended the Army's Armed Aerial Scout industry days late last month in Huntsville, AL, with as many as six expressing interest in flying their aircraft in the service's planned demonstration this summer, according to the Armed Aerial Scout's program manager.359 words

The Defense Department inspector general has found problems in the Army Contracting Command's management of weapons contracts for the Afghan security forces, arguing that a rush to field the arms led to cases of inadequate competition, lax subcontractor vetting and contractor nonperformance that was left unaddressed for years.386 words

The Defense Department has not yet assigned senior officials to oversee developmental testing in most major weapons programs, according to a Pentagon report to Congress.714 words

The Pentagon is poised to release a long-awaited cloud-computing strategy that will call for a single enterprise cloud across the department, according to an official overseeing the effort.1433 words

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants details from the Pentagon on how it intends to transition funding for special operations capabilities from the overseas contingency operations budget to the base budget.402 words

The Army has asked Pentagon leaders to approve a third early production run of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a stopgap measure that aims to keep the aircraft manufacturing line going in the wake of testing delays for the service's high-end unmanned air vehicle program, according to Defense Department sources.512 words