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101st Airborne Division

Army testing network architecture with whole division

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — The Army is now beginning to field updated and modernized network equipment to the division as a whole, including the enabling units. In…

Mar 4, 2025 By Mark Pomerleau

A small unmanned aircraft system, developed by the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), takes its initial flight on Oct. 10, 2024, at Fort Campbell, Ky. The drone is set to be tested during Operation Lethal Eagle in the spring of 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kaden D. Pitt)

No money, no problem: Army unit making its own drones

With limited funding and resources, the Army is looking to supplement programs of record with 3D-printed drones.

Mar 4, 2025 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Hound Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, conduct a demonstration for the local media with the Skydio X2D Drone during exercise Combined Resolve (CbR) 25-1 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 3, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Thomas Dixon)

Counter-drone system modernization ‘moving very slowly,’ 101st Airborne commander says

The commander of the 101st Airborne Division talked to reporters about the challenges the Army is facing.

Mar 3, 2025 By Mark Pomerleau

Private Davis from 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) poses for a picture against the night sky after air assaulting into the Joint Regional Training Center (JRTC) at Ft. Johnson, LA as part of a large scale, long range air assault (L2A2) that the 101st launched from Ft. Campbell, KY to JRTC on the night of August 16, 2024. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Joyner)

Cheap electronic decoys providing Army units more flexibility and options on battlefield

FORT JOHNSON, La. — Commercially available technology, operationalized in the right manner, is yielding tactical advantages for soldiers, Army units discovered during a recent exercise. During its…

Sep 3, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) conduct vehicle preparations in anticipation for the Large-Scale, Long-Range Air Assault as part of Operation Lethal Eagle 24.1, April 21, 2024, on Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Truesdale 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault))

Army tested electronic warfare to suppress enemy air defenses for helicopter assault

The Army's new mobile brigade combat team is testing new structures and capabilities as part of the service's "transforming-in-contact" concept.

May 9, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

A U.S. soldier of 4th Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), communicates over the radio during Saber Junction 18 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 23 , 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Dhy’Nysha Shaw)

Army working to reduce network complexity for brigades and lower level formations

As the Army is shifting to the division as the main unit of action and continuing to iteratively modernize its tactical network, it is seeking to alleviate…

Apr 10, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau