Drone-guided artillery strikes have made Ukraine “the graveyard of command posts,” two Army generals have warned. But, Lt. Gen. Milford Beagle and Brig. Gen. Jason Slider told Breaking Defense, better tactics and affordable tech can save lives.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The Afghanistan withdrawal and the consolidation of all in-country military networks to one base at Hamid Karzai International Airport illustrated unique challenges with direct applicability to Joint All Domain Command and Control and future Project Convergences.
By Barry Rosenberg
Army CIO Raj Iyer said the service is moving away from “traditional ways” of pulling data as it looks to build “a Command Post Computing Environment of the future.”
By Jaspreet Gill
All the shelters in the new system come pre-wired for workstations, which helps eliminate much of the setup time. Anyone who has ever been to a command post for the last 15 years knows how much electrical cabling runs around the tents. And, the use of pop-up shelters instead of tents makes quite a difference as well.
By Colin Clark
At issue is not just this particular program, but the much wider question of how a Pentagon testing apparatus designed for big industrial age programs can keep up with the much faster and more fluid upgrade cycles of information technology.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
WASHINGTON: At least a dozen major Army weapons programs face big decisions in 2019. The service will launch a competition for new armored vehicles; award development contracts for scout aircraft and helicopter engines; conduct key tests of long-range missiles, anti-aircraft defenses, rifles, targeting goggles, and multiple battlefield networks; and field new electronics for command posts.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
