For decades, the Army has used simulators to train Soldiers to pilot helicopters and drive tactical vehicles. Simulators are cost-effective in terms of fuel and maintenance, and they also allow trainers to simulate variables that are dangerous and costly to simulate in real life: weather conditions, difficult terrain and enemy attacks. But simulators can’t simulate…
Congested Airspace Likely Challenge in Future Flight
By 2025, airspace over future battlefields will be extremely congested, as well as dangerous. That’s one of several significant outcomes that came out of experiments conducted recently, said Col. Wayne Grieme. Grieme, division chief, Joint & Army Experimentation Division, or JAED, U.S. Army Capabilities Integration Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, spoke during a…
IoT Attacks Threaten National Security, Say Cyber Experts
Dams, the power grid and other such infrastructure were once closed network systems. Then they were added to the Internet. “We still thought of them as closed networks — but they’re not,” said Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command and Second Army. “Other systems touch them and that starts to create…
U.S. Army to Use Laser Weapons by 2023
Responding to lawmakers’ questions about how close the Army is to developing offensive and defensive directed-energy weapons, Mary J. Miller responded: “I believe we’re very close.” Miller, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, and other experts testified before the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Feb. 24.…
Army Seeking ‘3rd Offset Strategy’ to Dominate Enemy
“Our adversaries have begun to catch us in technology and in some cases, we believe, may overmatch some of our systems,” said a senior intelligence advisor. That’s why “we’re particularly interested in the pursuit of the third offset,” he said. Gary Phillips, senior intelligence advisor for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s G-2, Intelligence…
EEG May Someday Boost Soldiers’ Cognitive Ability
New and complex technology for Soldiers can tax their mental ability, since the brain has finite processing capability, said David Hairston, a neuroscientist. Hairston and his colleagues at the Army Research Lab’s Human Research and Engineering Directorate want to someday use electroencephalogram, or EEG, to aid Soldiers in those mental tasks. He’s leading the Real-World…