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Army Delays IVAS Display Headset by a Year
Officials cited problems with the unusually wide field of view.
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China’s Hypersonic Test Raises Questions About US Missile Defense, Deterrence
Basic questions about how to defeat or deter orbital weapons remain undecided.
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DDS Security Clearance Tool Evolves into ‘SITH’ Insider Threat Program
The Defense Digital Service’s automated investigations tool turns to the dark side of insider threat hunting and gets rebranded to match.
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Army Gets Strategic About Going Digital
Policy reforms and technology boosts are in the pipeline, military leaders confirmed.
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US Army to Stage Largest Robot Tank Experiment Ever
Its lessons will inform the Army’s next-gen-unmanned-vehicles plan to ask tech firms to deliver the brains and established firms to deliver the wheels.
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The Inventor of the Taser and the Body Cam Wants to Put Them on Drones
His pitch: non-lethal, robotically deployed Tasers can change the face of war.
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AUSA Conference Wire: Connect Everything
New: a weapons-testing lab just for networking. Coming up: a wargame featuring a battalion of unmanned vehicles.
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The Biggest Lesson from the Army’s Connect-Everything Experiment
New labs to test interconnections are the key to joint all-domain command and control.
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Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist
Heidi Shyu, R&D undersecretary, said she went looking for tech areas to trim—and found that some vital ones had been overlooked.
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How Well Can AI Pick Targets From Satellite Photos? Army Test Aims to Find Out
The Scarlet Dragon exercise is evaluating ways the service might put new tools to use in the very near term.
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America’s First Exascale Supercomputer Is ‘On Track’ for 2021 Deployment
Next-gen systems like Oak Ridge's latest are expected to drive unprecedented innovation.
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Pentagon Begins ‘Continuous Vetting’ of All Troops for Insider Threats, Extremism; Social Media May Come Next
Automatic alerts will flag records or activities of concern among all Defense Department personnel.
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Soldiers’ Super Suits Will Sense Surroundings Soon
Tooth microphones and spider senses could be coming to a battlefield near you.
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Hypersonics Test Shows the US Is Catching Up in the New Missile Race
But questions remain about costs and priorities remain.
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Air Force Chief Anticipates ‘Something Special’ for B-21 Public Debut
The Raider is still on schedule to make its first test flight with the next year, Air Force chief says.
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An Army Pilot Just Re-Invented Flight Training for the Digital Era
By teaching an AI to read instruments with a camera, you get the best of the human and machine worlds.
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