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At AUSA Annual 2024, U.S. Army representatives and Booz Allen Hamilton discussed the skills and workforce strategies needed to implement, maintain, and operate modernization technologies. The discussion underscores workforce capacity as a factor in Army technology delivery, but identifies no solicitation, funding, contract, or procurement timeline.
The U.S. Army awarded L3Harris Technologies a three-year contract worth up to $60 million to advance its Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile interceptor. Phase two will test flight performance and assess compatibility with existing military platforms, creating potential openings for suppliers and integration and support providers.
A Defense News archive gathers commentary on historical procurement decisions, including the DoD’s JEDI cloud award to Microsoft and Amazon’s protest, Navy submarine shipbuilding, and the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program. It is an editorial resource, not a current solicitation or award notice, and provides no active deadlines, contract values, or procurement contacts.
The U.S. Army is redesignating its futures and concepts organization as the three-star Futures and Autonomous Systems Command (FASCOM), responsible for integrating autonomy across Army warfighting functions. The move signals potential demand in areas including autonomous fires, reconnaissance, aviation, logistics, and robotics, but no solicitation, contract value, acquisition vehicle, or procurement schedule has been announced.
The U.S. Army awarded initial one-year contracts totaling $93.6 million to nine companies to develop applications for its Next Generation Command and Control ecosystem. Following prototyping with the 4th Infantry Division, the Army plans to bring NGC2 to I Corps, creating opportunities for vendors whose software integrates with the shared data and AI foundation.
In June 2026, the U.S. Army advanced its unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities through a series of evaluations in Alabama. Five vendors were selected for the next phase of procurement, reinforcing a multi-vendor acquisition strategy and opening new opportunities for contractors in drone systems and integration with Army command operations.