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National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Water, Water Everywhere ... That Troops Can't Drink Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying that an army marches on its stomach. But an even more important tactical necessity than food is the availability of clean drinking water.
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 April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Take Unusual Steps to Reduce Fuel Demand In Afghanistan, marines are being challenged to unusual lengths. They must set up forward-operating bases, or FOBs, in areas with zero infrastructure.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army, Marines Face Uphill Battle To Lighten Troops' Battery Load Troops deploy with more electronic gear than ever: Flashlights, radios, GPS receivers, computers, cameras, mp3 players, small robots, all of which have to be constantly charged.
National Defense May 2011 Fred C. Lash	Marines Take Steps to Avoid Costly Bottled Water Resupply The cost of delivering bottled water to the troops is rapidly becoming unsustainable. Bottles create large amounts of litter and are far more expensive than the water provided by military purification units.
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 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 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 April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.
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.
National Defense August 2012 Dan Parsons	Power Supply A Consistent Challenge As Troops Use More Gadgets U.S. troops have a technological advantage over most enemies. But each new gadget they wield comes with a need for power and, at-times, with a hidden logistical tail.
National Defense February 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Tough to Free Troops From Oppressive Tyranny of Fuel The current wars have exposed a previously ignored military vulnerability: the huge dependence on fossil fuels.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Soldier Devices Create Voracious Demand for Better Batteries Batteries may be in limited supply on the battlefield if the latest electronic gear for soldiers doesn't see improvements in power technology.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers' Backpacks Not Likely to Get Any Lighter While most military gear has become lighter over the years, essentials such as food, water, and ammunition still weight soldiers down.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Energy Battle Plan: Attack Fuel Demand The well-documented vulnerability of military supply convoys and greater awareness of the problem, however, have not yet diminished U.S. forces' enormous appetite for fuel.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.
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 March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army `Land Warrior' Not Yet Ready For War, Gears Up for Next Tryout After a disappointing evaluation by users of a new high-tech soldier ensemble, the Army is redesigning portions of the system to make it lighter and easier to use, officials said.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Security Policies Deny Soldiers Access To Critical Information, Army Contends The Army's latest advances in networking technology are being slowed by security policies that restrict soldiers' access to information.
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 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 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 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 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.
National Defense October 2006 Grace Jean	Armies Around Globe Trotting out High-tech Warrior Ensembles In as little as two years, soldiers will begin wearing kits designed to seamlessly accommodate and connect all their advanced gadgets and weapons, effectively turning each individual into an informational "node" within the larger troop network.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Investment Decisions Haunting Army Today The oversimplified explanation of why the U.S. Army did not have enough bulletproof vests and armored trucks for troops in Iraq is that suppliers could not keep up with the demand.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon	The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Ponders Formation Of Expert Logistics Units As the U.S. Army reorganizes from a division- to a brigade-based combat force, it also intends to change the way it delivers supplies and logistics support to the front lines.
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 2006 Robert H. Williams	Training curbs combat skid mishaps Skid training device looks to curb injuries and deaths caused by skid driving conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.
Popular Mechanics October 2008	Remote-Control Missiles in a Box & More Could Quiet Iraq Critics Army foot soldiers in remote areas often rely on aircraft to deliver precision strikes to support their operations.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations.
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 October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus.
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Truck Crews Get Crash Course in Survival To make up for the shortage of armor, the Army intends to protect truck convoys from roadside bombs, mines and small-arms attacks by deploying more firepower aboard vehicles, along with other defensive techniques.
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Soldiers Test Impact of Virtual Training on Live-Fire Performance During a recent exercise called Bold Quest, held at Ft. Benning, Ga., soldiers and Marines tried their hands at the latest virtual training technology. The event was aimed at studying whether and how such training can augment live exercises at the small-unit level.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale	U.S. Army's Pivotal Land Warrior System Close to Fielding General Dynamics C4 Systems is integrating as many as 500 Land Warrior ensembles and Stryker integration kits into a Stryker experimental battalion to conduct special tests.
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 December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.
AskMen.com Kevin Neeld	Army Physical Readiness The U.S. Army recently tweaked the same workout they'd used for 30 years.
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 April 2006 Sandra Erwin	An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services.
National Defense June 2007 Grace Jean	Combat Veterans Catalog Equipment Shortfalls Many requested improvements in communications devices, batteries and weapons that, in many cases, are failing in the fight.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack.
National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy	To Ease Deployments, Army Revamps Way It Runs Bases Seeking to ease longstanding problems exacerbated by frequent troop deployments to fight the war on terrorism, the U.S. Army is reorganizing the way that it runs its military bases across the United States and around the world.
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.