Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

The latest news and analysis on land warfare, from Breaking Defense._____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

Organic Industrial Base $16B modernization plan to be briefed to senior Army leaders The strategy will tackle facility modernization, supply chain vulnerabilities and workforce.

The "digital thread" is key to continual improvement for the Army's Future Vertical Lift programs [Sponsored] By implementing a design-as-built methodology that digitally connects entire FVL programs throughout the lifecycle, Bell has increased its ability to collaborate in real-time with program partners and the Army to deliver new capabilities faster and more affordably.

Army's Infantry Squad Vehicle 'not operationally effective' in combat Pentagon testers take issue with comms, guns and durability over tough terrain for the troop carrier.

UAE, reeling from Houthi attacks, seeking Israeli advanced radar: Sources The UAE is seeking the advanced version of the Green Pine radar, part of the Israeli Arrow system that is designed to intercept ballistic missiles, in what could mark the first major arms agreement between the two nations.

Army selects four companies for lightweight power solutions The Army wants lightweight power solutions that can sustain dismounted soldiers for days at a time.

As Russia threatens Ukraine, Baltic nations work to update armored vehicle fleets Despite small budgets, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are working to strengthen their ground forces to protect their borders with Russia.

DARPA's 'ROCkN' laser-based clocks will know what time it really is, to the sub-picosecond Optical clocks in labs today "fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run," Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA's Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.

New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs' performance, flaws "By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.

Getting lost: Yet more delays to Space Force protected GPS program Some services have turned to commercial solutions for receivers as delays mount, report says.

Navy's problems with the Zumwalt may be hurting its hypersonic weapon efforts The Pentagon's top weapons tester says the service has "limited flight test opportunities" to support putting a hypersonic weapon onboard the Zumwalt class.

The case of Ukraine, looking back and looking forward "The Russian threat to Ukrainian sovereignty is simply not about Ukraine," writes author Robbin Laird. "It is about the stability of the current European order."

BAE, Oshkosh cold weather vehicle prototypes survive Army's Alaskan tests BAE systems and Oshkosh Defense, with its partner ST Engineering, will now compete for the contract, with an award expected near the end of June.

With Russia's Ukraine build-up, NATO faces existential crisis of coherence As Baltic members pledge arms, European giants France and Germany stay in the background.

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