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National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information. |
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming. |
National Defense October 2011 Eric Beidel |
New Fabrics Promise Better Fire Protection For IED-Battered Troops Scientists at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center know that pockets can save lives and that sewing them onto the Army uniform at an angle can curb injury after an explosion by channeling flames away from the face. |
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli. |
National Defense February 2011 Eric Beidel |
Army Looks Ahead To Next Generation Of Body Armor And Helmets The Army is investigating ways to make its forces more agile in their protective gear by reducing the weight of its systems and looking at the grains, powders and other ingredients used in body armor at the microscopic level. |
National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
`Land Warriors' Link Up With Stryker Vehicles An Army Stryker battalion will outfit hundreds of its soldiers with the high-tech "land warrior" ensemble this summer. These soldiers will help determine whether the system is suitable for combat and if the Army should continue to invest in the technology. |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see. |
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system. |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
In Search of Better Ways To Provide for Soldiers The Pentagon spends $80 billion a year on logistics, and yet fails to help soldiers solve seemingly easy problems. |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Soldiers Test `Land Warrior' Technology Small-unit commanders in the Army soon may receive a new computer-radio suite that connects soldiers into a wireless network and tracks their location. |
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level. |
National Defense October 2011 Eric Beidel |
Exoskeletons, 'Smart' Parachutes Could Reduce Soldiers' Loads Soldiers are used to carrying the equivalent of another human being with them wherever they go. The vest can account for about 35 pounds of that load, but body armor is only the beginning. |
National Defense June 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Companies Developing Wireless Battery System for Soldiers The Army is testing a system that would be able to move power wirelessly to and from the conformal battery in a soldier's vest, allowing him to charge it and power certain devices without being tethered to an outlet. |
National Defense October 2005 Grace Jean |
Stryker Units Win Over Skeptics The success of the first two Stryker Brigades has fueled more confidence in the capabilities of the vehicle, but soldiers in those brigades continue to evaluate strategies for best utilizing the Stryker. |
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation. |
National Defense October 2015 Jon Harper |
The Army Wants to Power Up Dismounted Soldiers As the demand for power for dismounted troops grows, U.S. military researchers and industry are looking for cutting edge technologies to both supply energy and lighten soldiers' loads. |
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel |
Soldier Energy Needs Outpacing Technology, Policy The military over the past decade has been grappling with the issue of power and its effects on everything from the mundane -- like microwaves and coffee pots -- to the sustainment of troops on foot patrols. |
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Shachtman & Coburn |
The Army's New Land Warrior Gear: Why Soldiers Don't Like It There's a half-billion dollars invested in the gear hanging off the heads, chests and backs of the soldiers. But do the soldiers find all the high tech gear useful?... The global battlefield... |
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers. |
National Defense February 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Manufacturers Answer Military's Call to Reduce Body Armor Weight For nearly a decade, the Army and Marine Corps have needed to subtract pounds from the equipment they must carry into the field. Two major suppliers of the materials used in body armor and helmets have come forward with new products that they say will address the problem. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 |
Army Picks ITT for Night-Vision Goggles Engineers with the U.S. Army needed better night-vision capability for soldiers on dark or foggy battlefields. They found a solution with Enhanced Night Vision Goggles (ENVGs) from ITT. The contract has a potential value of $560 million over five years. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Future Force is on the Move Tomorrow's warfighters are here today, years earlier than initially anticipated. The U.S. Army's Future Force Warrior program, under the umbrella of the organization's Future Combat Systems project, received a significant boost from an advanced technology demonstration last month. |
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggling With Rising Demand for Communications Conveniences of the information age that troops in combat used to regard as luxuries are now viewed as necessities. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Flexible and Wearable Display Technologies Are Critical to Today's Dismounted Soldiers The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly investing in the advancement of display technology for military applications. The U.S. Army, in particular, is a driving force in the acceleration of display technology for defense environments. |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations. |
National Defense October 2004 |
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence. |
National Defense October 2013 Dan Parsons |
Army's Battlefield Network Requires New Thinking on Soldier Power The Army is interested in fielding novel technologies that accomplish more than simply removing pounds from a soldier's load, said Steve Mapes, product lead for soldier power at Program Executive Office Soldier. |
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Equip Soldiers With New Sensors for Night Targeting The wars of the past decade exposed weaknesses in Army technology for infantry troops. Close-combat equipment such as night vision goggles and weapon sights are bulky and drain batteries fast. |
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Defense Contractors Ready with Lighter Weight Helmet Shells Even though military officials have repeatedly called for lighter soldier equipment, executives from the protection industry say troops remain without the next-generation technology already available off the shelf. |
National Defense April 2005 |
Chinook Off-Load System Rushed to Troops Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were having a hard time unloading supplies from Chinook helicopters. |
National Defense February 2013 Paul J. Kern |
U.S. Troops Deserve a Competitive Equipment Advantage The Army can take advantage of commercial competitive practices for fast-moving technologies, rather than lengthy bureaucratic processes. The armed forces should have the best capability when they need it -- and at a more affordable price in a time of lean defense budgets. |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Trying to Catch Up With Demand for Gear The U.S. Army has budgeted at least $3 billion for the next five years to equip soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with new combat gear, ranging from helmets, gloves and boots to satellite receivers, radios and advanced rifle sights. |
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority. |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Army Makes New Attempt To Field Networked Soldier System The Army is making another attempt to connect infantrymen to the battlefield network with a wearable system of hands-free computers and radios. |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
$2B Database to Keep Tabs on Army Stocks Seeking to manage a rapidly growing inventory of war equipment, the Army is spending nearly $2 billion on a new database that will track 3.4 billion items. |
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Extend `Rapid Fielding' Effort for War-Bound Units, Domestic Needs The Army continues the ramp-up of equipment deliveries in order to meet the requests from units rotating into Iraq, and to appease critics in Congress. |
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Tech-Warriors Changing the Face of the Army Private First Class Nicholas Johnson is not your average private. He was a network administrator in his previous life, and has an extraordinary ability to grasp soldiers' needs and turn them into digital products. |
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Equipment Choices Shaped by Afghanistan War While the Obama administration ponders a future strategy for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Army is rushing to buy new combat equipment especially suited to that nation's high altitudes and tough terrain. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale |
Wearable computers and the military: The smaller the better Demand for wearable computers in the military appears to be growing, and large-volume orders are not far away. Pilot production exercises which are now occuring should precede full deployment. |
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Rethinks, Again, How to Acquire Technology A decade of war taught the Army, among other lessons, that it needed a new approach for buying information-age technologies such as computers and communications systems. |
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson |
To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives. |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Soldiers Skeptical of Smartphones in Combat Commercial smartphones are lightweight, inexpensive and most soldiers already use them in civilian settings. But the Army is finding out that the devices may not always be needed or even wanted on the battlefield. |
National Defense July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
In Damage Control Mode, Army Builds Future Network for Combat Brigades For the Army, this may be its last chance of salvaging the surviving pieces of the ill-starred "future combat systems." |
Civil War Times September 2006 Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men. |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 |
Fiber optics goes nano Researchers from Harvard University, Zhejiang University in China and Tohoku University in Japan have made glass optical fibers as thin as 50 nanometers that guide light without losing much of it. |
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment. |
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Otis Port |
Super Soldiers New materials and technologies could boost the mobility and safety of U.S. troops |
National Defense June 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Military Seeks Flexible, Thin Computer Screens The Army Research Laboratory has partnered with another researcher in a $44 million deal to develop computer displays that can be incorporated as part of a soldier's uniform. |
World War II November 2006 David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
Soldiers Sharpen Humanitarian, Diplomatic Skills In preparation for the launch of a humanitarian aid mission at a refugee camp in Iraq, soldiers are being trained to cope with the unpredictable hurdles that come with interacting with people from a different culture. |