Tag Archives: Mark Milley

The U.S. Army has opened in Austin, Texas, the headquarters of the service’s new Futures Command that seeks to accelerate the development and acquisition of ground vehicles, precision weapons, communications systems, aircraft and other technology platforms, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The U.S. Army has issued a new vision statement for 2028 that details how the service intends to fight against Russia, China and other near-peer competitors in a joint multi-domain conflict. The Army Vision calls for the use of weapons, sustainment systems, aircraft, manned and unmanned combat vehicles, arms formations …

Gen. Mark Milley, chief of staff at the U.S. Army, said at a recent House defense appropriations subcommittee hearing the service branch plans to invest in the research and development of long-range weapons technology, National Defense Magazine reported Monday. “A subset of that is the hypersonics piece,” Milley told lawmakers. …

Leslie Smith, recently-tasked as 66th inspector general of the U.S. Army, has been promoted to lieutenant general during a ceremony conducted Feb. 9 at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. With this, Smith replaces David Quantock who has stepped down from the role in February after years of service since December 2014, the Army said Wednesday. …

The U.S. Army has announced the deployment of the second Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Bragg, North Carolina scheduled for January 2018. The particular SFAB is the second out of six specialized units trained to take part in advise-and-assist operations with allied forces and nations, the Army said Friday. “It is my …

The U.S. Army has begun to craft an acquisition modernization strategy meant to help the service branch accelerate its process for buying cybersecurity technology platforms, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Gen. Mark Milley, Army chief of staff, said at the 2017 International Cyber Conflict Conference that was held in Washington …

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has said the service will launch a restructuring effort as part of a modernization strategy that seeks to increase the U.S. military’s competitive advantage against regional and global threats across ground, air, maritime, space and cyber domains, Defense One reported Friday. The realignment seeks …

The U.S. Army has unveiled a data strategy that seeks to equip soldiers with modern technology platforms designed to help them manage and secure communications against cybersecurity threats. The service branch said Monday it developed the Network Path Forward concept as part of efforts to train warfighters on how to communicate, …

Army Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford has said the service branch will stop the procurement of the second increment of a tactical communications platform by the end of fiscal year 2018 because its current network “does not meet the future warfighting needs of a high-end conflict,” Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The …

The Trump administration has objected to a provision under the Senate’s proposed fiscal 2018 defense policy bill that would restrict all funds for U.S. Army battlefield network development efforts, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. The White House said in a statement published Friday that implementing funding limitations to the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program would affect …