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The U.S. Army has launched market research for the Consolidated Product-Line Management, Sustainment, and Modernization (CPMSM) contract. The award will provide total lifecycle support for the branch's Live Training Transformation architecture across 200 global sites ahead of a 2028 incumbent expiration.

West Point’s annual Branch Week exposed cadets to 16 Army career fields, reinforcing the Department of Defense's focus on talent-based branching and technology-driven leadership ahead of future multi-domain operations.

The U.S. Army executed Focused Excursion 26-3 to evaluate resilient, interconnected battlefield sensing networks designed to maintain situational awareness and targeting data streams within highly contested operational environments.

U.S. Army personnel assigned to Joint Task Force Southern Border successfully intercepted three hostile unmanned aircraft systems using the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser. The engagement highlights the maturing operational readiness of directed-energy counter-UAS platforms against asymmetrical non-state actor threats.

The U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center has introduced SixPAC, a hybrid polymer-and-steel ammunition packaging solution designed to reduce transport weight and enhance tactical distribution for small-caliber munitions, boosting operational readiness and supply chain efficiency across contested battlefields.

The U.S. Army is seeking a single small business prime for a $49 million contract supporting Western Hemisphere Command and U.S. Army Reserve live-fire training ranges, emphasizing technical master gunner expertise over price.

U.S. Army soldiers and Oklahoma National Guardsmen completed Exercise Pahlawan Warrior 26 with the Royal Brunei Land Forces. The bilateral training focused on jungle warfare tactics, advancing operational readiness and strategic interoperability in the critical Indo-Pacific theater.

The U.S. Army's Combined Arms Command is piloting VICTOR, a mobile-first artificial intelligence platform that integrates Army doctrine and field lessons learned into existing operational systems to accelerate tactical decision-making ahead of a planned force-wide rollout this fall.

The U.S. Army has launched a pilot for Army MAX, a cloud-based, AI-assisted platform designed to streamline service acquisitions. By automating requirements validation and package creation, the system aims to significantly reduce administrative delays across the service's contracting workflow.

The U.S. Army has created two dedicated Project Management Offices—PM Cyber Warfare and PM Space Superiority and Exploitation—to unify acquisition, streamline fielding, and deliver operational intelligence across non-kinetic domains.