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Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD's Internet Of Things: ENVG-B A soldier wearing the ENVG-B can look through binoculars, turn on the camera in their rifle's sight, and then point that sight around a corner to see and shoot, without exposing anything more than their hands or the rifle.

Industry Starts Work On Weapons That Can See; Autonomy Comes Next "Should we bias training data towards the weird stuff?," asks Patrick Biltgen of Perspecta. "If there's a war, we're almost certain to see weird things we've never seen before."

Army Aims To Field TITAN Terminals For All-Domain Ops In 2024 The Army and Air Force are still "defining the relationship" between TITAN and the Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), an Army spokesperson says.

Army Seeks Open Architecture For All Air & Ground Systems: Jette Starting with a summit this December, the Army's acquisition chief wants to harmonize technical standards across ground vehicles, aircraft, and other systems so they can easily use common components in their design – potentially saving millions – and share tactical data in battle – potentially saving lives.

Army's 'Team Ignite' Sets Futuristic R&D Targets: AI, Robotics, Autonomy "We ultimately want this Team Ignite to become the way we do business — it's increased collaboration with the right partners in the right events," says Maj. Gen. John George, head of Army Combat Capabilities and Development Command (CCDC).

EXCLUSIVE Navy Chief Demands Network Linking All Ships 'This Decade' The Navy isn't part of an Army/Air Force project to build a new tactical network, though the CNO said he wants the Navy's version to "plug into JADC2" once it's up and running.

Army 'Leading The Way' In Commercial SATCOM Buys Major SATCOM providers — such as Hughes (a subsidiary of SATCOM giant Echostar), Viasat, Intelsat, Inmarsat, SES and Eutelsat — argue that this would not only ease problems with service gaps that have long plagued troops in the field, but also be cheaper and allow speedier integration of new technology.

Army Lost 3 NTC Training Rotations To COVID; FORSCOM Curbs Pace Next Year Too Gen. Michael Garrett said computer simulations and other technical means can be used for some of the Army's higher echelon training. The focus must, he said, stay on the men and women who fight the last 100 yards as they close with the enemy.

NatSec AI Commission Urges New Vice Prez-Led Council The report recommends that US adopt an "offensive approach" to countering to counter "malign information operations" by China and Russia.

Vendors Pitch Army On Hybrid Clouds Beyond JEDI "Relying on one public cloud alone locks you in, locks into only one company's innovation," said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference. "It's a monocloud."

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