2 août 2018 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR
By: Leo Shane III
WASHINGTON — Senators gave final approval to the annual defense authorization bill on Wednesday, sending the $717 billion budget package to the White House to become law in the next few weeks.
The move marks the 58th consecutive year Congress has approved the military spending policy measure and the earliest that lawmakers have finished the work in 41 years. Typically, lawmakers labor until late fall before reaching agreement on the legislation.
It sets the military pay raise at 2.6 percent starting next January, adds 15,600 more troops to services' overall end strength, and boosts aircraft and ship purchases above what the White House had requested.
It also gives lawmakers a solid legislative victory to tout before voters in the lead-up to the November mid-term elections, and some parliamentary breathing room they hope can lead to progress on appropriations bills in the next few weeks.
WASHINGTON — Senators gave final approval to the annual defense authorization bill on Wednesday, sending the $717 billion budget package to the White House to become law in the next few weeks.
The move marks the 58th consecutive year Congress has approved the military spending policy measure and the earliest that lawmakers have finished the work in 41 years. Typically, lawmakers labor until late fall before reaching agreement on the legislation.
It sets the military pay raise at 2.6 percent starting next January, adds 15,600 more troops to services' overall end strength, and boosts aircraft and ship purchases above what the White House had requested.
It also gives lawmakers a solid legislative victory to tout before voters in the lead-up to the November mid-term elections, and some parliamentary breathing room they hope can lead to progress on appropriations bills in the next few weeks.
Congress is giving the officer promotion system a massive overhaul
The changes will have a far-reaching impact on military culture and change the incentives for how individual officers manage their careers.
By: Leo Shane III
A day earlier, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced that he had reached an agreement with Senate Democrats on bringing defense appropriations legislation to the Senate floor later this month, as part of a broader effort to wrap up fiscal 2019 military spending issues before the election.
7 novembre 2023 | International, Terrestre
This cutting-edge technology ensures our soldiers will have the most advanced weapon sight systems on the battlefield today
7 septembre 2021 | International, Aérospatial
DÉFENSE Les essais en vol de la nouvelle suite avionique FlytX de Thales ont débuté Thales annonce le début des essais en vol de la suite avionique FlytX. Réalisée à bord d'un hélicoptère Cabri, cette campagne d'essais se poursuivra jusqu'en 2022. FlytX, fruit de « plus de dix ans de recherches », a été conçue pour « améliorer l'efficacité opérationnelle de l'équipage en réduisant sa charge de travail et en facilitant la compréhension de l'environnement et de la situation », indique le groupe. Elle se caractérise par une conception centrée sur l'équipage, nativement connectée et cybersécurisée, et favorise la coopération avec les autres acteurs de l'écosystème aérien, précise Thales. Compacte, elle offre de plus une réduction du poids, de l'encombrement et de la consommation d'énergie de 40% par rapport aux suites avioniques actuelles. FlytX a déjà été sélectionnée par Airbus Helicopters et la Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA) pour équiper le Guépard, futur hélicoptère interarmées léger, mais aussi par VR-Technologies pour le futur hélicoptère léger mono turbine, VRT500. Air & Cosmos du 7 septembre
22 mai 2020 | International, Terrestre
May 20, 2020 - Standing for Main Ground Combat System, MGCS is a joint Franco-German defence project. The programme, to be implemented under German political leadership, is tasked with developing a main combat system to succeed the Bundeswehr's Leopard 2 and the French Army's Leclerc starting in 2035. Making the start of the MGCS procurement programme Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Nexter Systems and Rheinmetall AG established an ARGE in December 2019. Now, the partners and the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), acting in the name of Germany and France, have signed a contract for the “System Architecture Definition Study - Part 1” (SADS Part 1). This contract sounds the industrial starting gun for a MGCS Demonstration Phase At the Franco-German Ministerial Council meeting in Toulouse on 16 October 2019, the defence ministers of both nations, Florence Parly and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, emphasized their commitment to developing the MGCS. The ARGE is a German acronym standing for Arbeitsgemeinschaft, or “working group”. Under German law, the ARGE serves as the contractual partner of the procurement authority (BAAINBw) during the first phase of the programme. Officials of the three companies represent the ARGE vis-à-vis third parties. The aim of the study is to harmonize the final MGCS concepts of the previous phase, to analyse further details, and to propose a common multi-platform architecture. The three contractual partners will assess various aspects of different concepts: technical feasibility in the projected timeframe allotted for the programme; ability to fulfil the operational needs of both armies; efficiency and compatibility with national “systems of systems” (SCORPION for France and Digitization of Land-Based Operations (D-LBO) for Germany). Workshares in the SADS Part 1 are to be distributed equally between France and Germany on a fifty-fifty basis. The first phase of architecture work is expected to last 18 months. View source version on Rheinmetall : https://www.rheinmetall-defence.com/en/rheinmetall_defence/public_relations/news/latest_news/index_23936.php