Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

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BREAKING New Army Long-Range Units Head To Germany The Army will create two new units to coordinate long-range warfare in Eastern Europe: a Multi-Domain Task Force and a Theater Fires Command.

Army Needs Armor For City Fights: Gen. McConville The Army Chief of Staff defended the service's ambitious modernization program, particularly new armored vehicles and long-range missiles.

Biden Nominates Two Women To Lead DoD Modernization Rep. Anthony Brown, a 30-year Army veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement that "Wormuth has the experience and knowledge necessary to lead the United States Army through the complex and multifaceted challenges we face today."

Pentagon & NSC Veteran Tapped For SecArmy: Christine Wormuth "She brings a wealth of experience in national security [that] will help her in the inevitable Pentagon brawls for funding," retired Lt. Gen. Tom Spoehr told me.

FVL: Key RFP Coming This Summer Despite tightening budgets, the Army's pushing ahead with its plan to replace the Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk with a high-speed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It'll pick between Bell's V-280 and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X next year, with the winner entering service in 2030.

Army Still Too Focused On COIN: Fort Benning CO "All too often," the enemy in training scenarios is "two guys… with AK-47s and then another guy with an RPG," Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe says. "That's not the threat we need to be training our force against today."

Long Range Strike Hot Potato Now In OSD Hands "It's ultimately a political decision, and … this demands a strong and fully staffed OSD," said Mackenzie Eaglen, of the American Enterprise Institute. "That doesn't seem likely until much later this year."

Army Revives '10x Platoon' Experiment In Robotics, AI The deadline for industry to submit proposals is May 5. The AI, networking, and robotics experiment, which had been postponed by COVID, will be part of the Project Convergence wargames in 2022.

Bases' 5G To Boost Data, Emergency Medicine & Combat "5G is one of the most transformative technologies coming to us, second only to the cloud," Maj. Gen. Matt Easley says.

Naval Readiness Fell In 2019; Ground Readiness Rose: GAO Readiness of air, space, and cyber forces across the armed services was mixed, the Government Accountability Office said.

Joint Chiefs Meet on JADC2 This Week The ability to move vast amounts of data between far-flung units will be critical as the Pentagon continues to disperse ground, air, and sea assets further afield, untethered from large, stationary bases.

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