US Army chief says end strength will stay flat in upcoming budgets 4 days ago Gen. James McConville, left, said Army end strength will likely stay the same if budgets don t grow, but the service will do what it can to make sure numbers don t go down. (Spc. Thomas Scaggs/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army chief of staff has said that if the budget top line in future years either stays the same or decreases, he doesn’t see the service’s end strength dropping, but he also doesn’t see it growing. “When it comes to what chiefs have to grapple with in a budget, it’s end strength and structure, it’s readiness, and it’s modernization. Those are the three kind of big resource buckets we have,” Gen. James McConville said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Next symposium, held virtually March 16.
The Army Has a Timeline for When Soldiers Will Test Robotic Combat Vehicles
A team made up of Textron Systems, Howe & Howe and FLIR Systems, Inc. debuted the Ripsaw M5 unmanned vehicle at the 2019 Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting. (Courtesy Textron)
17 Mar 2021
Officials laid out a plan Tuesday to test Army Robotic Combat Vehicle prototypes over the next 17 months, leading up to a soldier evaluation at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Army has taken possession of the first four working prototypes of the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light, or RCV-L, and expects to receive the first four prototypes of the RCV-Medium, or RCV-M, in April and May.
US Army prepping robotic combat vehicles for big test with soldiers in 2022 4 days ago
A Textron, Howe & Howe and FLIR Systems team unveiled its Ripsaw M5 robotic combat vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army s annual show in 2019. The team was selected to build RCV-Light prototypes to help the Army build requirements for a future program of record. (Photo courtesy of Textron) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and is putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level soldier assessment in 2022.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 17, 2021 at 2:24 PM
A soldier tests the ENVG-B inight vision goggles n 2019. (Chris Bridson / Army)
WASHINGTON: The Army aims to outmaneuver and outthink its adversaries so thoroughly it achieves “decision dominance,” its generals said in unison this week. Will the new term became the latest bureaucratic buzzword or shed real light on how the future force should fight?
Gen. James McConville
The Army must move faster, McConville, declared, both as an institution developing new weapons – not in decades, but in a few years – and as a battlefield force destroying enemies – firing artillery, not minutes after spotting a target, but seconds.