General Dynamics Land Systems and American Rheinmetall are competing for the US Army’s multi-billion-dollar XM30 programme, an effort to replace Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, with a major procurement decision approaching. The XM30 is described as an ambitious multi-billion-dollar effort to replace the Army’s Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
General Dynamics Land Systems is offering the Wolf.
The AUSA meeting and exposition, held every October, brings together tens of thousands of attendees from more than 100 countries over three days. The event serves as a professional development forum for the military and defense industry.
Separately at the same AUSA gathering, US Army Reserve leaders highlighted how the reserve is adapting to meet Army and joint force demands. Lt. Gen. Robert D. Harter, Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command, and Command Sgt. Maj. Gregory Betty, Command Sergeant Major of the Army Reserve, each led panels on the reserve’s contributions.
The Army Reserve recently met its annual recruiting goal for the first time in a decade. This occurred during a major command and structural realignment.
Harter said the reserve is focused on ensuring soldiers are ready, referring to the one weekend a month of battle assembly drill and two weeks of annual collective training that most Army Reserve soldiers receive.
“We are making sure our Soldiers are ready to go,” Harter said. “That’s the most important part, ensuring those units of action are trained and ready.”
Maj. Gen. Frederick Crist, commanding general of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, said the Army Reserve is the foundation for the active component Army to create a campaign-level effect forward.
In a separate exercise, US Army Europe and Africa and NATO Allies concluded Avenger Triad 26 on Oct. 15, a distributed command post exercise conducted from Oct. 6 to 15. The exercise brought together approximately 2,000 US service members and 2,000 multinational personnel operating from command posts across France, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. It was synchronized with NATO’s command post exercise Steadfast Duel 26, which linked decision-makers across all 32 Allied nations.
The exercise tested simulated large-scale, multi-domain combat operations across Europe, operating primarily from the Combined Operations and Intelligence Center at Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, Germany. Participating Allied corps included the US Army’s V Corps, the 2nd Polish Corps, the 1st French Corps and the 1st German-Netherlands Corps.
Lt. Gen. Jez Bennett, acting LANDCOM commander, said the exercises demonstrated that collective defense is an active, trained reality. The operational insights and digital workflows refined during Avenger Triad 26 will inform planning for upcoming theater maneuvers, including NATO’s large-scale field exercise Steadfast Defender 2027.
Sources: DVIDS News · Shephard Media