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M1 Abrams: This Tank Is Old (But There Is Nothing Like It On the Planet)
There are several key variables that likely continue to inform Army plans to preserve its heavy Abrams tank for decades into the future.
Robots, Optionally-Manned Tanks, highly networked lightweight armored vehicles and armed reconnaissance ground drones are all capturing massive amounts of attention from Army futurists and weapons developers for understandable and appropriate reasons.
Yet meanwhile, an interesting and often under-recognized fact is concurrently operating beneath the radar, the apparent reality that the Abrams tank is going nowhere. Instead, the much upgraded and changed 1980s-era platform is powering along with an ambitious and long-term modernization plan, an approach which routinely focuses upon the Abrams tank as a key platform for continued innovation and technological breakthrough in the areas of command and control, artificial intelligence (AI), manned-unmanned teaming and heavy we
Texas A&M University-Central Texas celebrated the graduation of 17 cadets in their ROTC program who officially received their promotions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army in a ceremony at the university on Monday.
Each of the new Army officers was promoted by loved ones before receiving the traditional âFirst Saluteâ by an enlisted military family member or friend.
After receiving the salute, the new lieutenants presented a silver dollar to the person who gave them their first salute, to symbolically acknowledge the receipt of respect due the new rank and position.
All of the new officers were formerly enlisted soldiers accepted into the ROTC program to become officers.
U.S. Army to Build Software Factory Atop VMware Tanzu
The U.S Army Futures Command, in collaboration with VMware, is building a software factory in Austin, Texas based on the Tanzu distribution of Kubernetes made available by VMware.
Ajay Patel, general manager for the modern applications business unit at VMware, says the goal is to enable the U.S. Army to create the equivalent of a Silicon Valley software company inside the Army that will be staffed by civilians and soldiers recruited from posts around the world. For each of the next five years the U.S. Army will select 30 soldiers and civilians to enter the program every six months.
Red Cross Calls for Limits on Autonomous Weapons
Experts said the group’s unique stature might get governments to the negotiating table at last.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challenges for international humanitarian law in the future and bring “significant risks of harm to civilians and combatants alike,” Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, said in a speech Wednesday.
It s a move that will reshape the international discussion on autonomous weapons, experts told
Defense One.
Wednesday’s call from the ICRC is significant because the group has a unique standing among governments as a humanitarian organization mitigating the effects of conflict. They refer to themselves as the “guardians” of international humanitarian law.