The commanding general of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence discusses the impact of unmanned systems on U.S. Army aviation and combined arms.
The memo directs the military services to create active duty formations by September, built for the sole purpose of scaling the use of drones across DOD.
The Army is establishing major sites to shelter equipment that could be used during war, humanitarian crises or natural disasters in the Pacific theater.
Defense officials argued the spending request should also include another spending bill in Congress, which would bring the total closer to $961 billion.