Army

Oshkosh Defense is proposing design changes to the newest variant of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, the FMTV A2, in an effort to both resolve reliability issues that surfaced during production vehicle testing earlier this year and get its truck back to being assessed at Aberdeen Proving Ground this fall, according to a service spokeswoman.

The Army is working on adding resiliency to the battlespace by securing multiband SATCOM antenna terminal systems through Project Multi-band On-the-move Satellite Solutions, or MOSS.

Several defense contractors this week said sales rose during the most recent quarter, despite the ongoing pandemic.

The Pentagon will start repositioning 11,900 military personnel from Germany in the coming weeks, as part of a strategic shift expected to cost at least "single digit" billions of dollars over the next several years, according to Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Senate Republicans have released their proposal for a fourth round of COVID-19 legislation that includes $11 billion for defense contractor reimbursements, as well as billions more for the Defense Department to purchase new weapon systems.

The Defense Department last August terminated the Redesigned Kill Vehicle after the cost estimate tripled and the goal of fielding the new warhead for the Ground-based Interceptor in six-and-a-half years stretched to more than 10-and-a-half years, an outcome that came after both the Missile Defense Agency and RKV contractors ignored repeated warnings about the risks associated with the new warhead program.

The Army has established a new directorate in its management office focusing on strategic operations to include a wider range of joint all-domain operations capabilities, a service official told reporters today.

The House voted 241-173 today against an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would have removed an existing law requiring the Pentagon to send Congress an annual list of unfunded priorities.

The Army has released a draft request for proposals for the service's $957 million Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise contract.