Dan Schere

The Government Accountability Office has denied the protest of a contract awarded in August to AeroVironment worth up to $990 million for the Switchblade loitering munition system, according to GAO's website.

The Army has awarded Palantir a $400 million contract to support the Army Vantage program as it transitions to be the Army Data Platform, the technology company announced today. The contract is for a period of up to four years.

The Army’s decision to award a $990 million contract to AeroVironment for the Switchblade loitering munition system without a full and open competition was justified based on temporary acquisition authorities granted by Congress in the Fiscal Year 2023 and 2024 National Defense Authorization Acts, according to the Government Accountability Office. The Army awarded the AeroVironment contract Aug. 27 to support the service’s lethal unmanned systems directed requirement. On Sept. 6, unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer Mistral Inc. filed a bid protest...

The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a $946 million contract to supply Romania with additional Patriot air and missile defense systems, according to the company.

The Army will convene an industry summit in early March that will focus on capabilities for Project Polaris -- an effort by the service to modernize Infantry Brigade Combat Teams’ equipment.

An ultimately unsuccessful bid by L3Harris for the Army's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) spy plane program failed due to a lack of technical detail the company provided in its proposal, according to the Government Accountability Office. Last August, the Army announced it had awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) a $94 million contract to be the lead systems integrator to provide the aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for HADES. The 12-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a...

The Army issued a request for information today seeking aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Launched Effects capabilities that can be integrated on medium/high-altitude aerial platforms.

Outgoing Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo says the Army wants to prioritize hybrid electric drive vehicles and suggested recently that it may be too soon to move forward in developing an all-electric combat vehicle. The service had been developing the Electric Light Reconnaissance Vehicle to transport soldiers and equipment for conducting mounted and dismounted reconnaissance missions alongside other combat vehicles in multidomain operations, Inside Defense previously reported. The Army released a request for prototype proposals for the eLRV in...

Army Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo, soon to leave office, says the fiscal year 2026 budget cycle will include funding for key modernization initiatives such as unmanned systems, but the next administration will ultimately be forced to balance that with other priorities, such as improving housing for soldiers. President-elect Trump and his administration will ultimately have the final say on the Army’s budget prior to its rollout, but the outgoing under secretary told Inside Defense in an interview last week...

The Army has issued a request for information seeking industry response as it prepares to award prototyping contracts for its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative, the service announced today.