Army Secretary Stresses Rapid Deployment, Information Warfare
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These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
Army Secretary Ramps Up 3D Printing
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A new policy orders organizations across the Army to embrace advanced manufacturing to “fundamentally change” both modernization and readiness.
Air Force Pushes 3D Printing To Boost Readiness
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Air Force LCMC is working to ensure that far-flung depots eventually can print their own parts — with a recent first being Travis AFB’s using their brand, spanking new laser printer to print those toilet seat covers built of a new-fangled polymer from it’s own brand new printer.
Army Buys 9,000 Mini-Drones, Rethinks Ground Robots
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Ground robots still lag drones, but the Army thinks both technologies are ready to field to frontline units, just at different levels.
Poland Deal Lays Groundwork For Division-Strength Deployment
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A division-scale exercise next year in Europe, Defender 2020, will be the largest in a quarter-century.
Army To Test ATLAS Robotic Gun: Bruce Jette
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The experimental turret will use the technology — and the safeguards — from the Army’s ATLAS project, originally misrepresented in the media as building “killer robots.”
Marines: FVL Intriguing, BUT CH-53K Is Essential
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The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China.
Army Tells Shoddy Suppliers: Shape Up
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Quality control problems at Boeing are just part of wider supply shortfalls that could hamstring Army helicopters in a major war.