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Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005 |
Army depot offers to partner with industry The days of selling a system to the military without considering the system's maintenance and upgrades are coming to a close.   |
National Defense
June 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Battered Communications Gear Boosts Business at Army Depot Repairing military communications gear and sensor systems that have suffered harsh treatment in Iraq and Afghanistan has become a growth industry for Pennsylvania's Tobyhanna Army Depot. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2008 |
Army Depot Technicians Get Stryker Brigade Back Into the Night-Vision Business Civilian technicians from the Tobyhanna Army Depot repaired and refurbished 2,546 night-vision goggles belonging a U.S. Army Stryker brigade during a five-week, temporary-duty assignment. |
National Defense
January 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
A Year at War: One Million Pieces of Damaged Equipment Repairs of worn-out and war-damaged Army equipment are certain to remain a $13 billion to $15 billion-a-year business - if not higher - for the foreseeable future. |
National Defense
April 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Industrial Depots Prepare for Surge The Army's maintenance depots may have to rapidly ramp up their capacity so they can fix up to 40,000 trucks and combat vehicles that could be returning from Iraq in the next several years. |
National Defense
October 2010
Peter M. Steffes |
Should Defense Overhead Reduction Plans Consider Maintenance Depots? As the Defense Department studies ways to squeeze more efficiency from the military's overhead accounts, experts have suggested the maintenance and repair depots could be an obvious target. |
National Defense
August 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Technologies Rushed to War Face an Uncertain Future In the scramble to deliver equipment requested by commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army often bypassed its own procurement bureaucracy. |
National Defense
July 2014
Dan Parsons |
Army Switches From Vehicle Procurement to Sustainment Mode Military commanders and the companies that built thousands of vehicles in support of two wars are preparing for reduced budgets and requirements after more than a decade of combat. |
National Defense
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire. |
National Defense
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Not Always Amenable to the Ways of Corporate America Many of the Army's top leaders are fretting about the way the service manages its resources. They confront an alarming financial situation that is caused by escalating war expenses, wasteful buying practices and costly plans to drastically expand the size of the force. |
National Defense
April 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Industry-Military Collaborations Necessary to Reset Fatigued Force At the end of the war, trucks and tanks need to be revamped to prepare for the next war. |
National Defense
September 2006
Frank Colucci |
Overhaul under way for Abrams tank engine In an effort to curtail soaring operating costs, the Army is revamping its M1 Abrams tank engines. The goal is to double the meantime between depot repairs for the tank power plant. |
Parameters
Summer 2004
Gordon & Sollinger |
The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it. |
National Defense
April 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers. |
National Defense
May 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment. |
BusinessWeek
March 6, 2006
Brian Grow |
Renovating Home Depot Home Depot is thriving under CEO Bob Nardelli's military-style rule. |
National Defense
November 2014
Sandra I. Erwin |
Generals Get Real About Missions, Budget Life in the "post-war" Army indeed will be different. It will not be one of dreary rotational deployments but one of multitasking and responding to unforeseen events. |
Fast Company
September 2004
Rebecca Zicarelli |
Home Depot's Hardware Warriors Madeline Toft used to fly an attack helicopter and jump out of planes. As a captain in the U.S. Army, she led soldiers as they trained for war. Today, she's a hardware-store manager-in-training. |
National Defense
December 2004
Michael Peck |
'America's Army' Fan Base Expanding At least half a million video-game aficionados each month play what has become a successful military recruiting tool: America's Army. |
National Defense
October 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Predicting the Future Of Warfare: Why Bother? Let down by the hype of technowarfare and wised up by the harshness of counterinsurgencies, the Army is not about to make grandiose jumps into the future. |
National Defense
May 2006
Perry & Flournoy |
The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force. |
National Defense
July 2010
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Prescription for Ailing Army Acquisition Army Secretary John McHugh last month ordered a comprehensive review of Army weapons acquisition practices, management and oversight. |
National Defense
July 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Investment Decisions Haunting Army Today The oversimplified explanation of why the U.S. Army did not have enough bulletproof vests and armored trucks for troops in Iraq is that suppliers could not keep up with the demand. |
National Defense
December 2011
Harvey M. Sapolsky |
Army Acquisition: Not Broken and Not Fixed The U.S. Army is prone to considerable introspection, and when it comes to reflecting upon its acquisition experience, which it does frequently, it is almost never happy. |
National Defense
April 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Changes to Military Strategy, In Time for the Next War Iraq is far from over, but the Defense Department is already rewriting military doctrine so that forces are adequately trained and ready for another Iraq-like conflict years or decades from now. |
National Defense
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
$2B Database to Keep Tabs on Army Stocks Seeking to manage a rapidly growing inventory of war equipment, the Army is spending nearly $2 billion on a new database that will track 3.4 billion items. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2006
Courtney E. Howard |
The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism. |
BusinessWeek
March 6, 2006 |
The Drill at Home Depot Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli has a tool for instilling his values: His growing battalion of ex-military people. |
National Defense
April 2006
Sandra Erwin |
An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services. |
