The 75th Ranger Regiment is tasked with providing feedback up the chain on all night vision devices to help leaders details for a new IVAS competition and which units should receive the mixed-reality device.
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.
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
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.
"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.
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.”
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.
There is no single answer to the drone threat, pushing the Pentagon toward a broader mix of defenses.
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 […]