Army Magazine, AUSA News, and Headline News articles discussing U.S. Army Innovation.
A 60-year-old ARMY magazine article serves as the inspiration for a science fiction writing contest sponsored by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
After more than 25 years of unprecedented conventional combat power overmatch, we have awakened to near-peer adversaries with sophisticated capabilities.
About 13 centuries after hand-tossed incendiary devices were first used against enemy forces, the U.S. Army is working on a new version.
The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny, N.J., in cooperation with the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga., is developing the Enhanced Tactical Multi-Purpose (ET-MP) hand grenade. Soldiers will be able to arm it for either fragmentation or concussive effects simply by flipping a switch before tossing.
An app for emergency communications, an upgraded helicopter engine and enhanced night vision goggles were among the technologies on display at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Qnexis Inc., a Reston, Va.-based communications company, showcased an emergency communications app that provides mass notifications to mobile phones.
Company president and CEO Kurt Nguyen said the mobile app is useful for routine communications between administrators and employees, providing company-wide or site-specific communications.
If you’ve been impressed by an innovation that hit the field during the more recent fiscal year and proved to be a boon to unit or individual readiness, the Army wants to hear about it.
The Army Materiel Command is taking nominations for the fiscal 2016 Army’s Greatest Innovation Awards Program, which aims to recognize new and innovative technologies, inventions, techniques and procedures developed by the Army’s research and development and science and technology communities–and also by soldiers in the field.
Cutting-edge technology will be on display in the Innovators Corner pavilion at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition. The event will be held Oct. 3 to 5 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Thomas P. Russell, acting deputy Army secretary for research and technology, will open the exhibit, in Hall C of the convention center, at noon on Oct. 3. On Oct. 4 and 5, presentations begin about 9 a.m. and continue throughout the day.
Several initiatives are combining to push the survival rate for wounded U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to levels never before seen in the history of warfare, said Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West, U.S. Army surgeon general and commanding general of U.S. Army Medical Command.
West gave the opening and closing remarks at the one-day professional development seminar “Army Medicine Enabling Army Readiness Today and Tomorrow,” hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare. The Hot Topic forum was held in AUSA’s Conference and Event Center in Arlington, Va.
It would bear no resemblance to the Olympics, but a new report suggests that the Army set up and host an annual “swarm games.”
The idea took root last fall when Undersecretary of Defense Frank Kendall asked the Defense Science Board to ruminate on the potential combat implications of “swarming” large numbers of simple, low-cost, “disposable” objects against small numbers of complex, high-cost, multifunctional objects.
The Army is mildly obsessed with innovative leadership, as reflected throughout strategic documents such as the Army Operating Concept
