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National Defense September 2004 Roxana Tiron	U.S. Army Considers Changing Acquisition Strategy for Small-Caliber Ammunition Facing soaring demand for small-caliber ammunition, the U.S. Army is turning to industry to dramatically increase the production of rifle and machine gun rounds.
National Defense July 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Pentagon Taking Steps to Avert Ammunition Crisis According to the ammunition systems project manager, the Army is upgrading its manufacturing facilities and reaching out to more contractors to replenish its diminished supply of small-caliber ammunition.
National Defense June 2007 Breanne Wagner	Soldiers Need More Non-Lethal Weapons, Better Knock Down Power Non-lethal weapons are needed for crowd control and mob situations.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Will Boost Supply of Small Cal Ammo, Weapons Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are consuming small caliber ammunition at rates the U.S. Army has not seen in years.
National Defense June 2007 Holmes & Seraphin	Munitions Industrial Base: Trouble on the Horizon The concerns are not merely theoretical or speculative. They are based on historical facts.
National Defense March 2010 Holmes & Palachak	Munitions Industry Prepares for Downturn If munitions industrial capabilities disappear following ammunition budget cuts, any rescue efforts will be expensive and create significant turbulence in the sector.
National Defense October 2013 Stew Magnuson	Over Army Objections, Industry and Congress Partner to Keep Abrams Tank Production 'Hot' As far as producing Cold War era weapon systems the military says it has enough of, but Congress continues to fund anyway, there is probably no bigger poster child than the Abrams tank.
National Defense January 2014 Seraphin & Palaschak	Budget Cuts, Inadequate Planning Put Munitions Industrial Base in Peril Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno has warned about a return to the hollow Army that resulted from post-Vietnam War reductions in defense funding. He said the nation must avoid a dangerous repeat.
National Defense September 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Army Developing Advanced Ammo for Abrams Tank To be more useful in urban battlefields, the Army's main battle tank needs to be armed with advanced multipurpose rounds that can be adapted for use against different types of targets.
National Defense October 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Cannons, Rockets and Missiles: A Growth Industry in the Army The Army is expected to increase investments in cannon artillery, missiles and rockets, in an effort to extend the range and improve the accuracy of these weapons.
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Stan Crock	The Little Contractor That Could Alliant Techsystems Inc., a no-frills weapons maker is beating out some top guns to supply the military.
National Defense March 2013 Dan Parsons	Military Seeks Lighter, Stronger Ammo Recognizing that rifle design using gunpowder and self-contained cartridges has neared the zenith of engineering, firearms manufacturers are turning to ammunition as a possible source of further weight reduction.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2004 Seth Jayson	Number One With a Bullet Alliant Techsystems, the army's only provider of small-arms cartridges, brings in record revenues on small-arms ammo.
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 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 October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Extend `Rapid Fielding' Effort for War-Bound Units, Domestic Needs The Army continues the ramp-up of equipment deliveries in order to meet the requests from units rotating into Iraq, and to appease critics in Congress.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
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.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Propelling Itself to Big Profits Ammo gets all the press, but defense company Alliant Techsystems has a much broader reach. These shares trade for about 17 times earnings and a whopping 42 enterprise value-to-free cash flow ratio.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Commerce Dept. Seeks Data on Industries Affected by Katrina The defense industry is reporting specific production or supply problems resulting from recent hurricanes. Of particular concern is the damage to liquid hydrogen plants, which could affect defense suppliers in the space and munitions sectors.
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Wrangling Over Future Combat Systems Raises Larger Questions A contentious bout of budget drills on Capitol Hill this year featured the Army's top brass mounting a passionate defense of its prized Future Combat Systems.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Ground Combat Vehicle: The Saga Continues The Army's quest for a new combat vehicle is one of the Pentagon's longest running, most drama-filled procurement soap operas.
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations.
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	Skeptics Watch Cannon Progress Closely The Future Combat Systems non-line-of-sight cannon, currently weighing 27 tons, will be the first large piece of FCS equipment to be delivered to a brigade for evaluation.
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.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Equip Helos With `Low Cost' Munitions The Army soon may begin arming its combat helicopters with an undersized missile that could surgically destroy targets in urban areas without killing or maiming friendly forces or innocent civilians.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Has High Expectations For Smart Artillery Rounds Past unsuccessful attempts to field precision-guided munitions have served as hard lessons to U.S. Army developers, who are now trying to bring to fruition a new generation of smart weapons.
National Defense November 2015 Jim Schatz	U.S. Military Losing Edge in Small Arms The current U.S. Army small arms development and acquisition system is dysfunctional and virtually unworkable, even for those within the system.
National Defense January 2013 Dan Parsons	Outdated Weapons Bring Calls for Speedier Upgrades The average age of a small-arms weapon in use by the Army is more than 30 years, far older than most of the soldiers who rely on them in combat.
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 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 March 2004 Roxana Tiron	U.S. Army Assesses Precision Strike Capabilities The U.S. Army is due to release a study this month on how to improve the capability of its precision munitions, according to a top service official.
National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy	To Ease Deployments, Army Revamps Way It Runs Bases Seeking to ease longstanding problems exacerbated by frequent troop deployments to fight the war on terrorism, the U.S. Army is reorganizing the way that it runs its military bases across the United States and around the world.
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Initiates Study to Measure Value of Precision-Guided Weapons The soaring prices of precision-guided munitions have spawned yet another round of debates in the Army on the role these weapons will play on future battlefields and whether they are worth the cost.
BusinessWeek April 25, 2005 Palmeri & Crock	Evening The Odds In A Guerrilla War Helped by feedback from Iraq, companies are speeding up weapons design. Defense contractors are also looking to retool weapons.
National Defense April 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Combat Vehicle Sector Could be Headed for Turbulent Times The defense industry has thrived despite erratic government funding and regulatory vagaries. But it must now prepare for a possible downturn during the next several years.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Rethinks, Again, How to Acquire Technology A decade of war taught the Army, among other lessons, that it needed a new approach for buying information-age technologies such as computers and communications systems.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.
National Defense May 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Industrial Base: Plans Needed to Ensure Soft Landing It is probably not too early to contemplate what sectors of the U.S. defense industrial base should brace for a hard landing after the huge war supplemental budgets begin to wane.
National Defense August 2013 Dan Parsons	Carbine Competition Fails to Find Improvement Over Current Weapon The Army has officially called off its search for an M4 carbine replacement without anything to show for five years of effort other than data suggesting that its current weapons work about as well, if not better, than anything industry had to offer.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Army leaders and defense industry officials will convene in Washington, D.C., this month to discuss the future of "industrial preparedness," said Army Assistant Secretary Claude M. Bolton Jr.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Readiness: Candid Assessments Long Overdue Alarm bells have gotten progressively louder and more jarring in recent weeks on the issue of military readiness on the home front.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Efforts to Reorganize U.S. Army Tied to Emergency War Spending As Iraq war costs approach the $300 billion mark, the Defense Department's increasing reliance on emergency appropriations to pay for military equipment is stirring controversy on Capitol Hill.
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy	R&D Command Seeks Better Coordination of Research The Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command is concentrating on improving coordination of the service's sprawling science and technology programs.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Ground Combat Vehicle Program May Not Yield What Army Intends, Analysts Say As the Army pursues its latest effort to develop a new ground combat vehicle, analysts say that the high-stakes program may already be headed for technological disappointment.
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.