Articles on the latest developments and innovations in technology affecting landpower, the Army, and its soldiers.
Army efforts to transform the logistics enterprise center on using technology to drive precision sustainment, demand reduction and advanced power storage, said Lt. Gen. Heidi Hoyle, deputy Army chief of staff for logistics, G-4.
Since the Army’s earliest days, NCOs have driven transformation by identifying requirements, and they are still driving transformation today, a panel of senior enlisted leaders said.
Soldiers’ ingenuity and curiosity are informing and driving Army transformation efforts, the commander of Army Futures Command said.
Through the Army’s transforming in contact initiative, “we’ve put kit in the hands of soldiers, and [we’re] getting user feedback,” Gen. James Rainey said.
“The closer you are to getting shot at, the better you are at innovating,” he said. The good news is today’s young soldiers are “phenomenally adept” at innovating. “It’s inherent,” Rainey said.
Rapidly evolving technology, including new weapons being used on the battlefield in Ukraine, is forcing the Army to move quickly to transform, a panel of experts said.
“We have to move quickly, we have to energize the system,” said Lt. Gen. Joseph Ryan, deputy Army chief of staff for operations, G-3.
The war in Ukraine serves as a stark reminder that the strategic environment can shift rapidly, and policy and military doctrine must a
Since its delivery in October 2020, soldiers across the U.S.
Fort Bliss, Texas, is now home to the Department of Defense’s first 3D-printed barracks.
“We’re here today because many people dreamed of new ideas and said, ‘Why not?’ and that’s why we’re delivering this state-of-the-art facility to the Army today,” Lt. Gen. David Wilson, the Army’s deputy chief of staff of installations, G-9, said during the Jan. 29 ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The concept of “transforming in contact” inherently optimizes the U.S.
The Army needs to move away from an overfocus on technology to effectively predict the character of war and use it to deter and defeat adversaries, according to a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, hypersonic weapons and even North Korean trash balloons; there is no denying that technology
