Wearing The Network To War
Army foot soldiers are going into battle with more and more electronics, wirelessly networked both to each other and to distant command posts. So can GI Joe be hacked?
AI In Your Eye: Army Goggles Will ID Targets Automatically
Army soldiers are testing goggles with an image-recognition system that can automatically spot threats like tanks and warn the rest of the squad -- or transmit the target data to a distant missile battery so they can take it out.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Mattis’s Infantry Task Force: Righting ‘A Generational Wrong’
Retired Maj. Gen. Bob Scales is the former commandant of the Army War College, a Vietnam veteran (and recipient of the Silver Star for valor) turned military historian and futurist. He’s also one of the fathers of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s Close Combat Lethality Task Force to reform the infantry. In this op-ed, Scales goes […]
Grunts To Get High-Tech Targeting Goggles In 2019
This kind of effort to get fighter-jock technology to ordinary grunts -- who do most of the fighting and dying -- has enjoyed some high-profile attention in the last 12 months. The efforts cover everything from developing a new, more powerful longer-range rifle to buying off-the-shelf quadcopters, from adding VR training simulations to eliminating tedious safety lectures.
HUD 3.0: Army To Test Augmented Reality For Infantry In 18 Months
What should the device show the soldier? "Where am I? Where are my buddies? And where is the enemy?" said Gen. Townsend. "Then other stuff could be optional.”