Army
The US Army has merged two formations into a new Pacific-focused command built to move fast, operate with limited support, and effectively bring drones, electronic warfare, and long-range fires into a future fight.The command, shaped by years of experimentation, including drills with regional allies, is meant to give the Army…
In a future war, an enemy could attempt to target US bases with cyber attacks and drone strikes to cripple American forces before the fighting even really begins.It’s a challenge that the US Army recently assessed during a tabletop exercise, drawing inspiration from real-world action, including Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb attack…
As the US Army tests its new warfighting software, soldiers say they are trying to use artificial intelligence for specific battlefield problems, not treat it as a fix for everything.Soldiers said that their approach to putting AI capabilities into Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, the Army’s new battlefield…
Future warfare will be fast-paced and chaotic. That’s forcing the US Army to rethink the field posts that are increasingly in their enemy’s crosshairs.The problem for the US is straightforward: Command posts send and receive a high volume of transmissions on battlefield information that an advanced adversary, like Russia or…
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…
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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…
