Army Futures Command Archives

Soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment conduct dismounted operations during Dragoon Ready 2023 using the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) capabilities. (Photo Credit: Sgt. Rebecca Call)

Army planning 2025 prototyping activity for next-gen C2 effort

Service officials talked to DefenseScoop about how they expect their efforts to unfold.

Oct 11, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

Gen. Rainey participates In a discussion moderated by Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang in June 2024. Source: Scale AI’s Twitter

Army Futures Command’s Gen. Rainey reflects on AI’s potential in modern warfare

“I don't personally think we have a technology problem — I think we have a tech adoption problem,” Gen. Rainey said.

Jun 28, 2024 By Brandi Vincent

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) is expected to subsume the functionality of the Army’s legacy ground stations including the Advanced Miniaturized Data Acquisition System, Advanced Remote Ground Terminal, and Tactical Intelligence Ground Station. (Army photo)

Army repurposes assured PNT cross-functional team to focus on long range, ‘all-domain’ sensing

Led by Mike Monteleone, the new team is expected to reach full operational capability by the second quarter of fiscal 2025.

Mar 26, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

Army creating deep sensing cross-functional team

Army Futures Command will establish the new group, according to Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George.

Mar 7, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Army Soldiers experiment with new Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space equipment during the Army’s 2021 Positioning, Navigation and Timing Assessment Exercise at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. (U.S. Army photo by Austin Thomas, Army Futures Command)

Army Futures Command considering ‘repurposed’ CFT for space-based, deep sensing

The Army is considering transforming the mission of its Assured Positioning, Navigating and Timing/Space cross-functional team.

Oct 9, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

A U.S. Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, from 3rd Battalion, 321 Field Artillery Regiment, attached to 41st Field Artillery Brigade, fires a rocket as part of Nordic Strike 22, at Vidsel Test Range, Sweden, Sept. 27, 2022. The Army is putting new emphasis on using technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to speed up the “kill chain” process of locating and firing on targets. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Devin Klecan)

Data integration challenges persist for Army fires, missile defense modernization

"We’ve always been able to see the data, but we’ve never been able to do anything with it,” said Col. Pat Costello, director of the Army Futures…

Aug 9, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

A forward observer with the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division uses Integrated Tactical Network components during a live-fire exercise at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, in January, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Justin Eimers, PEO C3T Public Affairs)

Army looking to accelerate C2 on the move

The Army is imploring industry to help devise solutions to allow units to do command-and-control on the battlefield without having to stop.

May 26, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Signal Corps conduct war simulation training Oct. 5, 2022, during Project Convergence 22 at Camp Pendleton, California. During PC22 many systems were slated to be tested to determine how future command-and-control capabilities can be integrated with all service and multinational partners. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thiem Huynh)

Army planning to transition two AI algorithms to programs of record

The new algorithms participated in last year’s Project Convergence exercise.

Oct 18, 2022 By Mark Pomerleau

A U.S. Marine Corps Hero-400 loitering munition drone is staged before flight on San Clemente Island, California, May 25, 2022. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel Childs)

DOD intensifying search for new tech to defeat kamikaze drones

The DOD is about to release a white paper asking industry for new ideas for countering adversaries’ kamikaze drones. That outreach will be followed by a technology…

Oct 12, 2022 By Jon Harper

A Robotic Combat Vehicle navigates in the field during Project Convergence at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, on October 20, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Destiny Jones)

Army focusing on light robotic combat vehicles, with emphasis on software

The service plans to leverage a software acquisition pathway to get technology that could be applied to other categories of unmanned platforms.

Jul 27, 2022 By Jon Harper