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Rapid Equipping Force
The U.S. Army is beginning a major modernization program of its vehicle fleets. The new programs come on top of tens of billions of dollars spent over the past decade on MRAPs, uparmored Humvees, improved medium and heavy trucks and improvements to the Abrams tank and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
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Date:
5/31/2012
One of the most important lessons to come out of the last eight years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the inevitability of troops in combat needing equipment which had not been available to them in peacetime. Operating primarily in dismounted mode and facing new kinds of threats from weapons
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Date:
4/14/2011
Even though the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are not over, the U.S. military must start preparing for the next wars. The Marine Corps is trying to reinstitute amphibious warfare training. The Army is returning to practicing for conventional combined arms operations. The Navy and Air Force are
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Date:
2/1/2011
The Army’s acquisition system has been captivated of late by the ongoing effort to procure a new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV). In some sense the GCV along with its linear antecedent the Future Combat System has preoccupied the Army for more than a decade. The Army now wants to make the GCV contracting
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Date:
1/21/2011
Today’s soldiers in Afghanistan are the best equipped in the world -- the best body armor, the best fire resistant uniform ensembles, the best weapons, night vision goggles, communications systems, mountain boots and helmets. What distinguishes the current wars from those for which the military
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Date:
12/14/2010