DARPA wants to build slimmer, enhanced night vision goggles

DARPA wants to build slimmer, enhanced night vision goggles
DARPA wants to build slimmer, enhanced night vision goggles

The Pentagon’s blue-sky R&D agency chose 10 partners to help make goggles easier on soldiers’ necks and expand vision in the dark.

Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD’s Internet Of Things: ENVG-B

Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD’s Internet Of Things: ENVG-B
Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD’s Internet Of Things: ENVG-B

A soldier wearing the ENVG-B can look through binoculars, turn on the camera in their rifle’s sight, and then point that sight around a corner to see and shoot, without exposing anything more than their hands or the rifle.

Army Under Secretary Scopes Out Sensors: Fielding Fast

Army Under Secretary Scopes Out Sensors: Fielding Fast
Army Under Secretary Scopes Out Sensors: Fielding Fast

“It’s very encouraging,” McCarthy said. “It gives you high confidence in some of these investments we’re going to make….We’ve got these decisions coming up here by the middle of the summer for the POM 20” — the five-year budget plan (Program Objective Memorandum) for 2020-25.

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.”

Guns, Drones, & Augmented Reality: Army Seeks Infantry Revolution

Guns, Drones, & Augmented Reality: Army Seeks Infantry Revolution
Guns, Drones, & Augmented Reality: Army Seeks Infantry Revolution

The catch, of course, is that the Army’s tried to field all these things before — and failed. Why would things go any better this time around? Brig. Gen. Christopher Donahue has an answer for that.

261 M1 Tanks Getting Trophy Anti-Missile System As Army Reorients To Major Wars

261 M1 Tanks Getting Trophy Anti-Missile System As Army Reorients To Major Wars
261 M1 Tanks Getting Trophy Anti-Missile System As Army Reorients To Major Wars

PENTAGON: The Army’s 2019 budget will upgrade 261 M1 tanks, enough for three brigades, to carry Israeli-made Trophy Active Protection Systems (APS) to guard against anti-tank missiles, service officials said this morning. That’s just one of many funding changes — from buying more howitzer shells to intensifying training exercises — meant to reorient the Army…