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BAE Systems to Deliver Head Mounted Displays to US Army
BAE Systems has received a $21.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity order for Head Mounted Displays from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Soldier. The Head Mounted Display, also known by its company product name Remote Eyepiece Display Imager, or RED-I, is compatible with military night sensors such as thermal weapon sights, and can support a [...]
Team accelerates test, delivers B-1B close-air support capability to warfighter
A developmental test team here partnered with an operational test team from Texas to accelerate testing and deliver to the warfighter B-1B Lancers that can find and strike moving targets in close-air support of ground troops even quicker than before. Merging developmental and operational testing to consolidate resources on a compressed timeline, members of the [...]
Warfighter Support Needs ‘Fast Lane’
The Defense Department must institute a “fast lane” that is more agile than traditional requirements, acquisition and budgeting, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics said here today. Ashton B. Carter told an audience at the Brookings Institution that supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan calls for rapidly fielded new capability, agile [...]
Space team improves GPS capability for warfighters
Joint force warfighters around the globe will soon be able to assess real-time and future GPS accuracy, both where they are and where they’re going, with a new capability developed by the 2nd Space Operations Squadron’s Global Positioning System User Operations team here. The new capability uses the Google Earth software application to display data [...]
Air Force Researchers Showcase Integrated Training Capabilities
Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing Human Effectiveness directorate’s Warfighter Readiness Research division showcased their integrated training capabilities at the 2010 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Fla. Their mission is to develop science and technology solutions to improve the ability of warfighters to realistically train as they [...]
Career change benefits frontline warfighter
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, PA.: When you see [Lake Ariel resident] Michael Verton helping employees conduct Lean events, it’s hard for some to imagine that this cheerful, fun loving and very young-looking “kid” was a full-time warfighter only a short while ago. A combat injury in July 2008 may have ended Verton’s career as a Soldier, [...]
Army Asks Industry to Support Warfighter Requirements
BALTIMORE: What Soldiers need to be successful on the battlefield and how the technology should be developed were questions the Army and industry met to talk about during Panel Session One at the Team C4ISR Symposium in Baltimore recently. Technology is changing so fast, and the acquisition process traditionally has been so slow, the topic [...]
Gates: Overhead Savings Would Benefit Warfighters
WASHINGTON: The Defense Department must find $100 billion in savings over the next five years to ensure U.S. warfighters continue to have the resources they need to defend the nation now and into the future, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. At a briefing today, Gates introduced Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense for [...]
CWID tests latest in communications for warfighters
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: Airmen and Soldiers brought their experience from Afghanistan and Iraq to test the latest communications systems in the Colorado Springs portion of the joint Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration on June 16. The demonstration is designed to improve and enhance command and control; communications systems; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. The portion [...]
