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27 April

Boeing to Fit P8-A Poseidon With LRASM in $74M Navy Contract

Boeing was awarded a $74 million contract with the US Navy for integration of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile onto the P-8A Poseidon aircraft.

27 April

Bidisha Das

TACK Program Could Change the Way Warfighters ‘See’ on the Battlefield

US Army researchers have developed a suite of tools to enable soldiers to “see” the battlefield in ways never imagined before.

27 April

Stryker fires BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile

Tong Ong

US Army Fields First M-SHORAD System In Decades

The US Army has begun redeploying the Mobile Short Range Air Defense system after a hiatus of 13 years.

26 April

Joe Saballa

US Approves SkyGuardian, Equipment Sale to Australia

The US government has approved the sale of 12 MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones to Australia.

23 April

US soldiers stand at the Qayyarah Air Base, where US-led troops in 2017 helped Iraqis plan out the fight against the Islamic State in nearby Mosul

Staff Writer With AFP

3 Rockets Hit Baghdad Airport Base Housing US Troops: Security Sources

Three rockets crashed into a base at the Iraqi capital's airport housing US troops Friday, security sources said, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad's allies Tehran and Washington.

22 April

1- Sgt. Maj. Luke Blum, who serves as the DEVCOM acting command sergeant major and the senior enlisted leader for ARL, dons the ExoBoot as part of a study that analyzes how humans and autonomous systems adapt to each other

Tong Ong

US Army Studying How Autonomous, Wearable Tech Can Adapt to Soldiers

US Army researchers are conducting a study that involves an adaptive exoskeleton boot that optimizes soldier performance.

22 April

In collaboration with the Air Force, the Joint Counter-sUAS Office (JCO) and the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office hosted a demonstration in counter drone technology at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz on April 5-9

Inder Singh Bisht

US Army Hosts Counter-Small Drone Tech Demo in Yuma

The US Army hosted a four-day counter-drone technology demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground earlier this month.

21 April

Army researchers create a new approach that allows autonomous systems to flexibly interpret and respond to soldier intent

Tong Ong

US Army Creating New Approach to Real-Time Conversational AI

US Army researchers have created a pioneering technique for combat vehicles and autonomous systems to interpret the intent of a soldier through spoken dialogue and respond appropriately.

21 April

CENTCOM Commander General Kenneth F. McKenzie

Staff Writer

General: Small Drones Dent US Air Superiority

The US military is operating without complete air superiority “for the first time since the Korean War” because of the proliferation of inexpensive, small drones, Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said.

21 April