How bad was the UCP?  Despite knowing it was crap.  the Army spent $5 billion to replace the old BDU , and is now spending billions more to ...

The DoD is announcing the Navy's plans for the naming of a group of new ships . Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the n...

In what can only be described as shot across the bow to any Army agency not called "TCM-Gaming" the new new TRADOC command policy ...

Did 3MECH try to sneak their way around the system ? The issue that alarmed Shyu was that the unit said it couldn’t pay for the system, an...

The US Navy is going to launch the USS Choctaw County . The Navy will christen the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) Choctaw County, named fo...

The Army sure would like to know . The U.S. Army is in the market for a next-generation first-person-shooter (FPS) training game that will...

Army acquisitions trying to defend their own investments? The Army ordered the destruction of a report that praised the performance of an ...

The Economist has a bleak outlook on plans vs reality in Canadian defense spending . One of the main ways Stephen Harper, Canada’s Conserv...

There's an IG report on General Dynamics "wasting" a metric assload of money on the Stryker program, and apparently never tri...

Every year, starting FYQ4 the DoD asks Congress to shift money around in their accounts. This year's "big shift" is to cover ...

It's nice that FOGN Michael Peck thinks that the Army is migrating toward lower-cost alternatives, but the truth is that it'll neve...

As fiscal crises deepen - just because an economy recovers doesn't mean future budgetary commitments evaporate - what do you expect to s...

The DoD has released their new mobile device "strategy" . The Department of Defense announced today the release of a mobile devi...

This might be one way for Ottawa to justify purchasing a reduced number of F-35 stealth fighters. The federal government [of Canada] is co...

The Secretary of the Navy will commission the submarine USS Mississippi . The Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine Mississippi wi...

Some excellent background on how we got where we are today . The GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle is not a simple competition among existing ...

The Economist takes a quick trip to Ft Bliss to look into the current NIE . It has been three weeks since the Ellisian army invaded next-d...

We won't editorials on Cesar Chavez, and instead just point out that the US Navy will christen the USNS Cesar Chavez on Saturday evenin...

Do you build your vehicle fleet on... ... distinct platforms for each system (AFV, tank, arty, etc)? ... a common platform that does man...

The Army says they don't need them. Congress doesn't care, and is continuing to fund purchases of M1 Abrams tanks beyond what the ...