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National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment.  |
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.  |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.  |
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Tech-Warriors Changing the Face of the Army Private First Class Nicholas Johnson is not your average private. He was a network administrator in his previous life, and has an extraordinary ability to grasp soldiers' needs and turn them into digital products.  |
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Rise of Smartphones May Sound Death Knell for Old Push-to-Talk Radios Handing an infantryman a device the size and shape of a brick that can only perform one task, voice communications, may soon be akin to issuing him a musket.  |
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Security Policies Deny Soldiers Access To Critical Information, Army Contends The Army's latest advances in networking technology are being slowed by security policies that restrict soldiers' access to information.  |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Soldiers Skeptical of Smartphones in Combat Commercial smartphones are lightweight, inexpensive and most soldiers already use them in civilian settings. But the Army is finding out that the devices may not always be needed or even wanted on the battlefield.  |
National Defense December 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Army to Create Education Programs for Soldiers Who Are Too Busy to Go to School Repeated deployments have kept soldiers away from schoolhouses. But the Army still believes there are ways to provide learning opportunities outside of the traditional education system.  |
National Defense September 2012 Dan Parson |
Pentagon Struggles to Integrate Smartphones, Create Mobile Workforce Pentagon officials got a lesson in what happens when their sluggish acquisition practices go up against the commercial market's swift innovation.  |
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggling With Rising Demand for Communications Conveniences of the information age that troops in combat used to regard as luxuries are now viewed as necessities.  |
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.  |
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.  |
National Defense July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
In Damage Control Mode, Army Builds Future Network for Combat Brigades For the Army, this may be its last chance of salvaging the surviving pieces of the ill-starred "future combat systems."  |
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years.  |
National Defense November 2011 |
Readers Sound off on Recent Stories Military benefits under fire... Energy security... Military acquisitions... Smartphones in the army...  |
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority.  |
National Defense January 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Funding for Military Mobile Technology Flattens as Demand Rises Funding to incorporate smartphones and tablets in Defense Department offices and on battlefields has stagnated even as demand for devices is rising.  |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Investment Decisions Haunting Army Today The oversimplified explanation of why the U.S. Army did not have enough bulletproof vests and armored trucks for troops in Iraq is that suppliers could not keep up with the demand.  |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.  |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Next Combat Vehicle: New Beginning or FCS Sequel? The Army is racing toward a September deadline to present a convincing case to the secretary of defense that it should receive funds to begin designing a new combat vehicle next year.  |
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Urban Surveillance Still Falling Short, Say Army Commanders Army commanders need more sophisticated aerial surveillance sensors to give them a wider, more detailed view of the complex urban battlefield.  |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.  |
National Defense August 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Pentagon Working to Quickly Acquire Mobile Technologies The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the midst of implementing a commercial mobile device plan that will allow for quicker adoption of the latest smartphones and tablets.  |
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Rethinks, Again, How to Acquire Technology A decade of war taught the Army, among other lessons, that it needed a new approach for buying information-age technologies such as computers and communications systems.  |
National Defense August 2013 Dan Parsons |
Google Glass Eyed for Wearable Soldier Gear Army officials have been after a way to outfit soldiers with wearable computers for years, but have repeatedly failed to find a system that both delivers information coherently and avoids impairing troops' perception of the battlefield.  |
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Army, Why Can't Soldiers Be Customers? Nowhere do companies find it more difficult to concentrate on true customer needs than in the Army procurement system.  |
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Acquisition of Battle Network Slowed Down by Red Tape The Army's fast-track method of buying mobile networks for deployed soldiers could be in jeopardy as long as it remains bound by existing procurement regulations, government and industry sources said.  |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Army Makes New Attempt To Field Networked Soldier System The Army is making another attempt to connect infantrymen to the battlefield network with a wearable system of hands-free computers and radios.  |
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Changes to Military Strategy, In Time for the Next War Iraq is far from over, but the Defense Department is already rewriting military doctrine so that forces are adequately trained and ready for another Iraq-like conflict years or decades from now.  |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states.  |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons |
Small Businesses Fight Uphill Battle for Army Network Contracts Oro Grande is where elements of the Army's newest battlefield network are finally evaluated for integration into individual units and vehicles. It is where large and small companies contend for contracts in the Army's "agile acquisition" process.  |
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.  |
National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Stryker Brigades `Self-Reliance' Worries Army Training Command Access to the latest information on insurgent tactics in Iraq can be a decisive weapon for Army commanders prepping their units for war.  |
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Training and Doctrine Command Launches App Store This fall, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command presented its own app store where soldiers could find a wide range of documents and training materials easily and securely, said command officials.  |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Soldiers Test Tools for Urban Surveillance Field tests begin for the first technologies scheduled to reach soldiers' hands from the Future Combat Systems program.  |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see.  |
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Army Badly Equipped To Fight in Low-Intensity Wars The Army's most ambitious procurement program, the Future Combat Systems, may be directed at the wrong threat and the service needs to adjust its investments accordingly.  |
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Equipment Choices Shaped by Afghanistan War While the Obama administration ponders a future strategy for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Army is rushing to buy new combat equipment especially suited to that nation's high altitudes and tough terrain.  |
National Defense October 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Deploy Web-Based Intelligence Network The Army will soon begin deploying a "joint intelligence operations capability" in Iraq -- a web-based catalog of information that soldiers at the battalion level can access from high-speed workstations.  |
National Defense October 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Predicting the Future Of Warfare: Why Bother? Let down by the hype of technowarfare and wised up by the harshness of counterinsurgencies, the Army is not about to make grandiose jumps into the future.  |
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.  |
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Equip Soldiers With New Sensors for Night Targeting The wars of the past decade exposed weaknesses in Army technology for infantry troops. Close-combat equipment such as night vision goggles and weapon sights are bulky and drain batteries fast.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism.  |
National Defense April 2006 Sandra Erwin |
An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services.  |
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.  |
National Defense October 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Should Think Twice Before It Cuts Ground Forces, Historians Warn In the wake of every conflict since World War II, ground troops have been declared obsolete. And each time, the prognosticators have been wrong, says military historian John C. McManus.  |
National Defense October 2015 Jon Harper |
The Army Wants to Power Up Dismounted Soldiers As the demand for power for dismounted troops grows, U.S. military researchers and industry are looking for cutting edge technologies to both supply energy and lighten soldiers' loads.  |
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gen. Griffin: Army Procurement In Need Of Sweeping Changes The Army's procurement apparatus is undergoing a major reorganization designed to anticipate and satisfy equipment requirements.  |
National Defense October 2004 |
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence.  |
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright |
Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack.  |