In a markup of the 2020 defense budget, the HASC tells the Pentagon to keep developing new tech but inform the Hill about how and where it might be used.

Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy says the service’s new five-year budget plan will be finished within weeks.

The US could develop more than a dozen different land-based weapons for $7 to $12 billion, thinktank CSBA estimates.

“You want to kill a swarm of things — whatever that thing is — lasers are not really a swarm-killing tool. They can kill things fast, but they can’t kill a swarm of things fast enough.”

Can a new kind of contract get key cutting-edge technologies across the bureaucratic “valley of death” before the Russians and Chinese lap the US?

The Army must take risks to modernize, the Futures Command chief said, and the modernization effort will survive the inevitable failures along the way.

While Congress wrestles with CH-47 cuts, Army leaders are already looking ahead to hard decisions on high tech.

How will the US kill enemy hypersonic weapons in future war? The Pentagon’s research chief has some high-tech ideas.

To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.

Let a hundred hypersonic flowers bloom, Pentagon officials say, instead of a single cumbersome mega-program.