The land warfare branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for ground combat operations, equipment procurement, and troop training.
US Army soldiers from Multi-Domain Command - Europe fired their first Tomahawk from the Typhon system, at China Lake in California last month. Business Insider calls it a step toward potentially bringing long-range strike capability to the European theater.
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The US Army says it has not yet declared its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile fully fielded, more than three years after the original target. A missile that flies in tests can still lack what a unit needs to use it.
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Hanwha Defense USA said the US Army has ordered nine XM1776 wheeled 155 mm howitzer prototypes, with an option for nine more. The vehicles are for evaluation, and the announcement sets no production timeline or final Army quantity.
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Raytheon says it took its Coyote Block 2C+RM counter-drone interceptor from concept to three development tests in 15 months. It has not disclosed range figures, and no purchase of this variant has been established.
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Hanwha Aerospace delivered the first wheeled K9 howitzer prototype to the US Army, which named it XM1776 after a contract signed in August. The Army drops the X and calls it the M1776 once it clears testing.
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BAE Systems unveiled a high-power microwave weapon at AUSA 2026 that it says has reached Technology Readiness Level 6. Only the microwave half of the pairing works without conventional ammunition, and no Army adoption is shown.
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US Army awarded $4.15 billion in Domestic Shield counter-drone contracts to 10 companies, within a $7 billion ceiling. The Army requires open architecture, so the test is whether one firm's radar and another's camera work on one base network.
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US Army has added two locomotives, its first major rail additions in over a decade, as over a third of TACOM's locomotives exceed a 65-year expected life. Both were built to fit the track at the installation that got them, as TACOM works to cut the over-age share below 20 percent.
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CASCOM, the US Army's Combined Arms Support Command, upgraded its LOADOUT cargo software after Operation Epic Fury to cut time spent chasing shipments. The fixes give units and planners one shared view of requests and capacity, so the gain should show up as fewer status calls. The report gives no count of those calls.
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Forterra and Hypercraft showed a driverless vehicle with a 4,000-pound payload and an anti-drone shotgun at AUSA, but announced no customer, contract or price. Until someone signs, the evidence a buyer can use belongs to parts already tested or contracted on military trucks.
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Terrestrial Energy asked the NRC to put only its reactor module on the full licensing track and let the turbine wing follow commercial schedules. Approval would let turbine halls run before the reactor is licensed, including at a reported 390 MWe plant at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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US Army testers linked three previously separate electronic warfare programs for the first time, passing a simulated enemy signal from detection to jamming. Radio makers whose hardware can host the Army's jamming software stand to gain, though the four-day event showed only that the parts work together.
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Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a Patriot-family interceptor it plans to test in 2027 and field in 2031, built on a new seeker. The design keeps the Army's existing launchers and battle-command system, so a crew would field new rounds inside hardware already in service.
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Castelion posted the first public image of Blackbeard firing from a truck, a hypersonic missile aimed at about 80% of PrSM Increment 4's capability for less. Whether it fits the Army's existing rocket launchers is still a planned step that the photo cannot confirm.
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Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A, backed by 8VC and Silent Ventures, to push its military logistics software into sustainment planning. Runtimewire reported that the company has yet to publish a measured gain in planning time or readiness from the units already using it.
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Hanwha Defense USA will build the Army's next wheeled howitzer on Czech group CSG's Tatra chassis under a $262 million, 18-prototype contract. Its owned U.S. capital is going to shipyards, and the howitzer footprint stays small until the Army decides on full-rate production.
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Air Space Intelligence won a five-year U.S. Army command-and-control contract with a $99 million ceiling, a SAM.gov notice shows. The figure only caps orders, so the Army's task orders will decide what software first built for airline dispatchers earns.
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Johns Hopkins researchers found U.S. Army soldiers' sleep problems predicted more conflict with everyone, most of all with higher-ranking colleagues. The team traces the gap to worn-down self-control, an explanation it tested only after the rank pattern contradicted its expectations.
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US Army picked six companies to deliver production-ready robot mules for an operational assessment with an Army unit in early 2027. That trial is meant to set the requirements, so BLADE's TRL 9 rating for its Hunter WOLF is a company claim soldiers still have to test.
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US Army leaders plan to spread a robotics technician specialty across the conventional force after 10 soldiers graduated at its special warfare school. The job is a career path for soldiers who build and repair robotic systems, kept separate from the soldiers who operate them.
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