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National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
A Year at War: One Million Pieces of Damaged Equipment Repairs of worn-out and war-damaged Army equipment are certain to remain a $13 billion to $15 billion-a-year business - if not higher - for the foreseeable future.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Industrial Depots Prepare for Surge The Army's maintenance depots may have to rapidly ramp up their capacity so they can fix up to 40,000 trucks and combat vehicles that could be returning from Iraq in the next several years.  |
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Seeking $34 Billion For New, Upgraded Truck Senior Army officials have okayed a $34 billion plan to refurbish the service's truck fleet. Between now and 2018, the Army would acquire 70,000 new vehicles and upgrade more than 200,000 from the existing inventory.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Guard Equipment Bill Surpasses $100 Billion A commitment by the Army to pour $21 billion into the National Guard's procurement accounts is reassuring, but still not enough to fill equipment shortages.  |
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Predicts Long Life for Humvees Humvees will vastly outnumber MRAPs for the foreseeable future, at least if the Army has any say in it.  |
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggles to Maintain Ground Vehicle Fleet Facing a $12 billion tab to repair and replace vehicles and equipment damaged in combat operations, the Army expects to both reassess funding priorities and take a hard look at its logistics and maintenance practices.  |
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Brigades Will Deploy With Hundreds More Trucks The Army is expanding its logistics and transportation operations as part of a broader reorganization intended to field combat brigades that can operate independently, without the support of higher echelons.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Next Humvee: Army, Marines Weigh Options The Army and Marine Corps may decide as early as May 2007 to begin searching for a new vehicle that would replace the ubiquitous Humvee.  |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
$2B Database to Keep Tabs on Army Stocks Seeking to manage a rapidly growing inventory of war equipment, the Army is spending nearly $2 billion on a new database that will track 3.4 billion items.  |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Investment Decisions Haunting Army Today The oversimplified explanation of why the U.S. Army did not have enough bulletproof vests and armored trucks for troops in Iraq is that suppliers could not keep up with the demand.  |
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Truck Program a Test Case for Cutting Costs, And Profits A relatively small Army procurement -- the $3 billion family of medium tactical trucks -- is being watched closely by industry executives and investors as a harbinger of what might be in store for manufacturers of military equipment.  |
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Allots Additional Funds To Fix, Modernize Truck Fleet With a boost of at least $2 billion in the Army's budget for tactical trucks, officials are grappling with how best to strike the right balance between immediate and future needs.  |
National Defense February 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Build New Truck-Test Facility Enhancements to the Army test ranges aim to more realistically replicate the threats that combat forces face in the battlefield.  |
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Not Sold On Commercial Trucks The Army's Detroit-based research branch for years has tried to convince service leaders that they should purchase rugged commercial pickup trucks to supplement the aging fleet of Humvees.  |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Gene G. Marcial |
Oshkosh Truck Barrels Along Shares of Oshkosh Truck, a maker of military and commercial vehicles, have ramped up fast. And some pros believe they have a ways to run. Defense and homeland security contracts are helping to fuel profits.  |
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Wrangling Over Future Combat Systems Raises Larger Questions A contentious bout of budget drills on Capitol Hill this year featured the Army's top brass mounting a passionate defense of its prized Future Combat Systems.  |
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army `Truck Rodeo' Could Expedite Vehicle Upgrades The U.S. Army will be hosting a truck-technology exhibition this month intended to help service officials expedite purchasing decisions.  |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Not Always Amenable to the Ways of Corporate America Many of the Army's top leaders are fretting about the way the service manages its resources. They confront an alarming financial situation that is caused by escalating war expenses, wasteful buying practices and costly plans to drastically expand the size of the force.  |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Next Combat Vehicle: New Beginning or FCS Sequel? The Army is racing toward a September deadline to present a convincing case to the secretary of defense that it should receive funds to begin designing a new combat vehicle next year.  |
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Wants Trucks That `Survive' Combat Repeated attacks on truck convoys in Iraq have prompted the Army to revisit its requirements for future logistics vehicles.  |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Next-Generation Humvee Faces Delays, Budget Crunch The Army and Marine Corps are expected to delay an industry competition to design and build a new family of light trucks to replace aging humvees.  |
National Defense December 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Sequestration Could Hamper Joint Light Tactical Vehicle The Army and Marine Corps joint light tactical vehicle program is on schedule, but if sequestration returns in 2016, it will likely decrease the services' purchasing power.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
'Holodeck' Troop Training on Army's Wish List The Army owns thousands of training simulators but would like to move to the next generation of technology -- a Star Trek holodeck-like system that combines live and computer-generated scenarios into a single picture.  |
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.  |
National Defense July 2014 Dan Parsons |
Army Switches From Vehicle Procurement to Sustainment Mode Military commanders and the companies that built thousands of vehicles in support of two wars are preparing for reduced budgets and requirements after more than a decade of combat.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Grappling With Antiquated Buying Rules Army leaders continue to squabble over how best to satisfy soldiers' immediate equipment needs and simultaneously develop futuristic weapons systems for the decades ahead.  |
National Defense December 2003 Sandra I. Erwin |
Budget Logjams Slow Equipment Deliveries to Iraq Despite a supplemental appropriation approved by Congress last month for operations in Iraq, the Army is having a tough time meeting escalating demands for spare parts, vehicle components and repairs.  |
National Defense December 2011 Harvey M. Sapolsky |
Army Acquisition: Not Broken and Not Fixed The U.S. Army is prone to considerable introspection, and when it comes to reflecting upon its acquisition experience, which it does frequently, it is almost never happy.  |
National Defense July 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell |
Army Meets Tough Procurement Challenge Head-On Shortages of armored vehicles, particularly, commanded considerable attention because they highlighted the challenges of predicting equipment requirements and ensuring the readiness of the industrial base. The response to the steep increase in demand for armored vehicles in fact has been a remarkable success story.  |
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin |
Army Not Yet Sold On Hybrid Vehicles The Army's decision to stop funding the production of hybrid-electric Humvees is a clear sign that military vehicles will continue to be a tough sell in the world of fuel-efficient technologies.  |
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Truck Buyers Face 'Fix or Purchase' Dilemma The Army's aging fleet of 160,000 Humvees needs to be modernized, officials say. The plan is twofold: Refurbish a portion of the Humvee fleet and replace the rest with brand-new trucks.  |
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Debating Options for Bradley Vehicle Upgrades In the face of mounting requests for heavy armor to support troops in Iraq, the Army is expected momentarily to make a decision on whether to fund an upgrade program for the Bradley armored infantry fighting vehicle.  |
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Army, Why Can't Soldiers Be Customers? Nowhere do companies find it more difficult to concentrate on true customer needs than in the Army procurement system.  |
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Ponders Formation Of Expert Logistics Units As the U.S. Army reorganizes from a division- to a brigade-based combat force, it also intends to change the way it delivers supplies and logistics support to the front lines.  |
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Will Need to Recruit A Few Good Geeks The Army has no in-house logistics support for all their commercial high-tech equipment, and must now figure out how to maintain them.  |
National Defense April 2005 |
Washington Pulse The cost of equipping soldiers has escalated dramatically since the beginning of the war in Iraq... Pentagon unhappy about leaked memo... Turf feud between the Air Force and the Army on how best to destroy targets on the ground continues... etc.  |
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Ultra Light Combat Vehicle Could Buck Trend of Slow Truck Procurement If everything goes to plan, the Army could field about 300 ultra light combat vehicles by the end of fiscal year 2016.  |
National Defense February 2012 |
Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Readers respond to prior articles concerning army acquisition policies and government planning strategies directed at the defense industry.  |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Rich Smith |
Rethink Your Position on Defense Stocks America's involvement in the Afghan war isn't ending anytime soon. Nor are these companies' revenues, or profits, from the war.  |
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Armored Force: Mix of Old and New Amid uncertainty about the prospect of its ambitious "future combat systems" program, the Army is forging ahead with plans to deploy up to 35 new armored brigades.  |
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.  |
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel |
Military Provides Little Clarity For Future of Truck Fleets As wars end and budgets tighten, the Pentagon has begun trying to make sense of the spending spree that was the past decade.  |
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron |
Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.  |
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Army's Ground Combat Vehicle Stirs Confusion In Industry The Army plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next several years on the design of a new "infantry fighting vehicle." With new big-ticket military programs becoming increasingly scarce, this would normally qualify as great news for contractors.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.  |
National Defense April 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Combat Vehicle Sector Could be Headed for Turbulent Times The defense industry has thrived despite erratic government funding and regulatory vagaries. But it must now prepare for a possible downturn during the next several years.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
DHS Selects Govplace IT Offerings for FirstSource Program Govplace will provide IT solutions for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s new FirstSource program. The program is designed to consolidate information technology (IT) procurement across the department's agencies.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism.  |
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Considers Reviving Dormant Joint Requirements Council Nothing is more maddening to budget hawks and government watchdogs than two different agencies setting out to purchase the same technology in separate acquisition programs.  |
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Next Combat Vehicle: Cheaper and Simpler The Army lost a bruising battle to save its Future Combat Systems. Now the service is hoping that it can pick up the pieces and move on, although it's not yet clear how.  |