Vice Chair Joint Chiefs Hyten To Leave Next Year

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Vice Chair Joint Chiefs Hyten To Leave Next Year A new rule passed by Congress in 2017 requires that the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs serve four-year terms. A second term would have meant Hyten would be in office for six years and worn the uniform for 44 years.

SAC Kills AF Push For Funding Flexibility; Space Force Likely Hit "I think Space Force and its advocates hoped that they'd have a radically new approach to budgeting and acquisition," CSIS's Mark Cancian says, but Congress is unlikely to agree.

Army Creates New Units To Use Iron Dome The two air & missile defense batteries will be based at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the first Iron Dome weapons systems arriving from Israeli manufacturer Rafael by the end of the year.

QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army: RCV-L The Robotic Combat Vehicle (Light), which can shoot missiles, launch mini-drones, and spot targets for artillery, combines a Marine Corps-tested unmanned vehicle with Army weapons and autonomy software.

Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray While Project Convergence's first big test, the Army's "experiment at scale for a combined arms operations," was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters. The convergence tests, linking weapons, sensors, systems and…

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