Army
US Army leaders are trying to break down the decades-old technology barriers that have kept weapons, sensors, and command systems from easily sharing information, a critical step as the service pushes to make battlefield decisions faster.A recent exercise, the Project Jailbreak hackathon, brought top defense companies and the Army together…
Focus groups are a mainstay of retail, but Walmart’s warehouse club is taking it to another level in its battle against Costco.Sam’s Club is assembling a large and growing community of shoppers to help it develop new products as it races to expand the value of a membership.The company said…
The US Army’s notoriously tough Ranger School at Fort Benning, GA, is adding a new challenge for students — a bayonet assault course designed to prepare troops for the brutality of close combat and teach them to hold their own when high-tech warfighting goes dark. Loading audio narration… Army officials…
The US Army is flooding the force with new technology and AI tools. Its former top tech official says rolling them out is the easy part. The hard part is getting soldiers and the institution to adapt, a lesson for any inflexible operation. Loading audio narration… “The hardest part is…
Humanoid robots rather than flesh-and-blood soldiers could one day take on some of the most dangerous jobs in war — and one startup is already testing that idea in Ukraine. Loading audio narration… Sankaet Pathak, cofounder and CEO of Foundation, said there’s a “moral imperative” to put humanoid robots on…
The US Army has purchased thousands of cheap interceptors since the Iran war began, its top civilian official has disclosed, as the Pentagon looks to grow its arsenal of low-cost air defenses. Loading audio narration… Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers that after the US began Operation Epic Fury, the…
The US Army has set up a massive counter-drone training mission in the Middle East amid the Iran war, surging to the region systems that have extensive combat experience in Ukraine. Loading audio narration… A US defense official told Business Insider that the mission marks the Army’s largest-ever counter-drone training…
As the Army transforms into a more data-centric force, it’s testing out how to support soldiers navigating data problems, drowning in battlefield information, and adapting to new systems. Loading audio narration… The US Army Data Operations Center, a 180-day pilot program, is the service’s solution to data management, providing a…
