Sensors

Rainmaker: How the Army Is Bringing Data Sharing to the Battlefield

The Army is working to fully empower and network the future force through a dispersed, integrated series of “meshed” nodes and “gateway” technologies designed to connect different transport layer formats...

The Army Invests in Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Combat Vehicles

Here’s What You Need to Remember: AI will make it easier for future weapons platforms to fight and respond to threats. PITTSBURGH – Predictive maintenance, long-range precision fires, and the...

The Space Force Is Already Proving its Worth

Here’s What You Need to Know: Newer, more accurate, and timely weather data, tailored to the needs of military decisionmakers, can enable leaders to adjust tactics, change course or make advantageous...

Even in a Sandstorm, Adversaries Can’t Hide From the Space Force

During the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom, enemy Iraqi and terrorist forces often used sandstorms, cloud cover and inclement weather conditions to evade detection by overhead surveillance drones. While this did...

The U.S. Army Is Bringing Hot Air Balloons Into in Electronic and Cyber Warfare

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The U.S. Army could be again employing high-flying balloons, but with twenty-first-century technology that could include sensors to facilitate target jamming.   During the American Civil War, the Union Army established...

The Current U.S. Military’s Top Priority is Long Range Precision Fires

Here’s What You Need to Remember: This important program seeks to create overmatch at the tactical, operational, and perhaps strategic levels of military operations. Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) are the...

The Army Plans to Change the Way It Conducts Information Wars

The Army wants to break apart its weapons systems to find problems, refine technologies, upgrade components and integrate new technologies as they become available. The goal is to “bridge and overcome”...

Why Long Range Precision Fires Are a Top Priority for the U.S. Army

Here’s What You Need to Remember: What more than two years of work have taught CFT is that it is as necessary to invest in in more capable and faster targeting...

The Army Is Looking to Employ Sensors on High Flying Balloons 

During the American Civil War, the Union Army established the Balloon Corps, which was initially organized as a civilian operation that employed a group of prominent American “aeronauts.” The unit, which was...

Will This Russian Plan To Counter U.S. Abrams Tanks Work?

A new Russian weapons development may increase risks to the U.S. Army’s Abrams main battle tank, depending upon its effectiveness and the extent of survivability-enhancing upgrades to the tank.  Russia’s...

How Would the U.S. Navy Deal with Iran’s Sea Mines in a War?

Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to develop new mine countermeasures. Sea mines lurk beneath the surface of the ocean with explosive power, often buried...

You’re Dead: Stealth F-22s and F-35s Are Teaming up in Real-Life War Games

Here’s What You Need to Know: Flying F-22s and F-35s in tandem as part of a larger-scale force brings some cutting-edge technologies together. (This article first appeared in August 2020.) U.S....