Jen Judson

The Pentagon is studying gray zone conflict – otherwise known as hybrid warfare – beginning with a focus on Russia and later moving on to study Iran and China.

The omnibus spending bill to emerge from a bipartisan congressional committee early Monday morning includes funding to implement major recommendations made by the National Commission on the Future of the Army well over a year ago.

The U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command won’t be replacing its urban, nimble “street fighter” helicopter anytime soon.

The Army is having to keep some legacy trainer helicopters in its fleet at the initial entry rotary-wing training schoolhouse due to a still pending and yearslong lawsuit — and it is generating extra costs.

The Army repeatedly stressed at the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual summit that the biggest gap it has is the one left open when it retired its armed reconnaissance helicopter — the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior — without replacing the fleet with a new aircraft.

Nearly mirroring its approach to examine the art-of-the-possible for a Future Vertical Lift aircraft, the Army plans to conduct a science & technology-level demonstration of a next-generation tactical unmanned aircraft system that would replace Shadow and Gray Eagle.

Efforts underway to develop the next-generation engine for UH-60 Black Hawk utility and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters will come to a complete stop this week as it operates under last year’s funding levels, according to an Army acquisition official.

The chief of the U.S. Army’s intelligence branch said it is deep in the midst of a “bottom-up review” of its force to determine what is needed at every echelon and across all of the combatant commands.

There’s growing concern the U.S. Army’s munition stockpile is shrinking as it supports operations in the Middle East, and Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., is pushing to prevent the service’s lower-cost interceptor — the Patriot Guided Enhanced Missile — from being phased out of the inventory.

The Army’s aviation director at the Pentagon explained to a House subcommittee what could happen to the service’s pilots and aircraft should a yearlong continuing resolution become a reality.