Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

Sensor Trend: UAS Adopting WAMI Systems

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Though common on UAS, narrow-field FMV cameras have trouble finding and following dispersed targets over large areas. That's why platform providers are adopting wide-area motion imagery sensors for a variety of mission sets.  Learn more.

Marine Corps' Builds New Littoral Regiment, Eye On Fake Chinese Islands The Corps is looking for a unit that is "very low signature and that give us the firepower that we need to be a relevant force that provides consequences, should we get past the deterrence phase,"  Maj. Gen. Kevin Iiams, assistant deputy commandant of Combat Development, said.

Replacing Spatulas With Robots At Army Ammo Plants A worker died in 2017 scooping up explosive tetrazene by hand with a spatula. The Army and Congress agree an upgrade is long overdue — but it won't be cheap.

'Improvised Mode': The Army Network Evolves In Project Convergence How do you get targeting data from satellite to howitzer in less than 20 seconds, on a tactical network that was never designed to do that? You improvise, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me.

OMFV: Army Team Won't Compete For Bradley Replacement Industry and Congress were deeply skeptical of the Army's suggestion to enter a government design team in the OMFV competition. Now the Army has backed off.

Lockheed Aims For Laser On Fighter By 2025 How do you keep a laser focused on a target moving at hundreds of miles per hour? The answer is crucial to Lockheed lasers being fitted on Army trucks and Air Force fighters over the next few years.

JROC Struggles To Build 'Information Advantage' Requirement "I'm not sure exactly how we're going to document what information advantage really is," says Vice JCS Chief Gen. John Hyten, who chairs the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.

A Slew To A Kill: Project Convergence Instead of a single centralized Skynet trying to mastermind (or micromanage) operations, the Army is looking at a federation of more specialized, less ambitious AIs, each assisting humans in different ways.

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