Major SATCOM providers -- such as Hughes (a subsidiary of SATCOM giant Echostar), Viasat, Intelsat, Inmarsat, SES and Eutelsat -- argue that this would not only ease problems with service gaps that have long plagued troops in the field, but also be cheaper and allow speedier integration of new technology.
The Veterans Metrics Initiative measures a veteran’s overall state of well being within four areas: vocation, finances, social relationships, and mental and physical health.
The modestly named “Mid-Range Capability” will hit targets more than one thousand miles away, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood tells me. But the brand-new program needs reprogramming authority from Congress to catch up to other Army missiles already in flight tests.
Missile defense sensor is hitting all the marks.
Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor acknowledged that in the Indo-Pacific, “it’s clear that we are in competition with China in every country that we’re going to.”
In a brief video interview, we discuss the tactical computing environment and needs for new forms of onboard power with Bill Guyan, Senior VP and General Manager, Land Electronics at Leonardo DRS.
Gen. Michael Garrett said computer simulations and other technical means can be used for some of the Army's higher echelon training. The focus must, he said, stay on the men and women who fight the last 100 yards as they close with the enemy.
“Relying on one public cloud alone locks you in, locks into only one company’s innovation,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference. “It’s a monocloud.”
The Army can’t keep modernizing around the edges at its World War II-era ammunition plants, Assistant Secretary Bruce Jette said: It has to “transform” them. The detailed plan -- and cost -- are TBD.
In a brief video interview, Jerry Hathaway, senior vice president and general manager of the Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems business for Leonardo DRS, discusses EO/IR modernization and Army's new needs.
While Combat Training Center wargames will still work out full brigades, training at home base will emphasize small-unit teambuilding over big events.
Being built under rapid prototype authority, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor radar has a 360-degree capability to sense threats from all directions.
"Gen. Murray has talked about the view of Project Convergence as our 'Louisiana Maneuvers,' if you will, for the 21st century," says Col. Charles Lombardo.
The Army Chief of Staff and the head of Army Futures Command told Breaking Defense why, even without the chance to meet and mingle in the flesh, the AUSA Annual Meeting is still vital.