DefenceTalkLt. Gen. Robert Brown, Army Combined Arms Center, or CAC, commanding general, visited Fort Sill, Jan. 20, to discuss the Army’s greatest asset — its Soldiers — and how the “human dimension” is vital to combating current and future conflicts. “The key aspects of the human dimension are developing the right leaders for the future […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-shaping-soldiers-as-best-weapon-for-future-62196/

DefenceTalkArmy scientists and engineers are advancing sensors research in hopes of giving future Soldiers enhanced situational awareness. Sensor technology has broad application across the Army. Medical researchers are investigating how physiological sensors may help Soldiers achieve superior performance on battlefields of the future. Soldiers of 2025 and beyond may wear sensors to help detect and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-sensors-research-enables-future-capabilities-61228/

DefenceTalkWearable technologies may provide U.S. Soldiers with on-the-move, portable energy and reduce the weight of gear they carry into combat. Researchers at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, or NSRDEC, here, are developing Soldier-borne energy-harvesting technologies. During the Maneuver Fires Integration Experiment, or MFIX, a combined, multi-phase joint training exercise held in September […]https://www.defencetalk.com/soldiers-of-the-future-will-generate-their-own-power-61025/

DefenceTalkThe Army is researching physiological sensors that may help Soldiers achieve superior performance on battlefields of the future, said the commanding general of Fort Detrick, Maryland. Lt. Gen. Joseph Caravalho Jr., commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, led a panel discussion at the Association of the United States […]https://www.defencetalk.com/body-sensors-to-help-soldiers-in-future-conflicts-60577/

DefenceTalkFor Marines running roadblocks and vehicle check points, identifying an oncoming vehicle as a threat is a decision that has to happen quickly and at standoff range because lives are on the line. A new system being fielded to II and III Marine Expeditionary Forces, Reserve Units and Marine Corps Forces Central Command will give […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-flash-bang-launcher-expands-marines-non-lethal-capability-60502/

DefenceTalkWithin about two decades, roughly 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, particularly megacities of more than 10 million, according to a recent National Intelligence Council projection. Some of those inhabitants will be bent on terror and destruction of the regional and global community and the Army must be prepared to deal […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-prepares-for-dangers-lurking-in-deep-future-megacities-60493/

DefenceTalkThe Army of the future may have fewer Soldiers but more lethality thanks to research in precision, scalable effects and improved range. “Our scientists and engineers are, and have been, redefining the art of the possible to make this enabling technology a reality,” said Dale A. Ormond, director of the U.S. Army Research, Development and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-turns-to-researchers-for-future-lethality-60487/

DefenceTalkAs the Air Force prepares for new challenges and opportunities of the coming decades, it faces sobering 21st-century realities: global centers of power have become more distributed and the terrorism threat more dispersed. Most importantly, the emerging environment is demonstrating a trend that could prove to be the defining one of current times: the accelerating […]https://www.defencetalk.com/strategic-agility-is-the-future-of-the-air-force-60287/

DefenceTalkScientists and engineers at BAE Systems have lifted the lid on some futuristic technologies that could be incorporated in military and civil aircraft of 2040 or even earlier The four technologies unveiled are: 3D printers so advanced they could print UAVs during a mission; aircraft parts that can heal themselves in minutes; a new type […]https://www.defencetalk.com/bae-unveil-aircraft-technologies-of-the-future-60048/

DefenceTalkThe Army-led Future Vertical Lift program is being developed to replace the service’s aging helicopter fleet, and the aircraft of other services, at some point in the future. The need for Future Vertical Lift, known as FVL, was explained by Dan Bailey, program director, Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator/FVL, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development […]https://www.defencetalk.com/future-vertical-lift-capability-focuses-on-tech-demo-60009/