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Army Software Factory experiments with a new culture to unleash coders in its ranks
Soldiers work at Army Futures Command s Software Factory on March 22 in Austin, Texas. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) Soldiers work at Army Futures Command s Software Factory on March 22 in Austin, Texas. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy Boyle started creating software when he was 10 years old. Curious how websites were made, Boyle taught himself how to code using online video how-tos. “I was just always that person that would be looking at tutorials online, trying to figure out how to do it,” Boyle told C4ISRNET. “It just helped me build my way. That went from websites to creating mobile applications to creating Android software a whole range of variety of things before I went into the Army.”
Army to stand up multi-domain task force in Germany defense
Army to stand up multi-domain task force in Germany A member of a Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)
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The Army will stand up its second multi-domain task force, this time in Germany as the first unit focused on modernizing all-domain operations within Europe.
. (Tribune News Service) In an Facebook Live town hhall, the commander of the 62nd Airlift Wing, Col. Erin Staine-Pyne, said about 40% of the population of McChord Field has taken the COVID-19 vaccine. Staine-Pyne said the 62nd Airlift Wing, the active-duty Air Force component at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, has seen a few recent outbreaks but that they ve been well-managed. Active-duty service members, designated as mission-essential personnel, became eligible to receive the vaccine at Madigan Army Medical Center in early February. A spokesperson for I Corps said they could not release information about how many soldiers at JBLM have taken the vaccine due to instruction from the Department of Defense.
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SEATTLE, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Taqtile and Booz Allen Hamilton are working together to demonstrate the capabilities of 5G and the Manifest
® augmented reality (AR) platform at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington state. The JBLM project is designed to test the security, scalability, and resilience of 5G networks and the advanced capabilities of augmented reality/virtual reality.
The JBLM deployment is part of a $600 million investment by the Department of Defense (DOD) to test 5G at five U.S. military sites. According to a recent DOD press release, this represents the largest full-scale 5G test for dual-use applications in the world. Planned projects include implementing 5G-enabled augmented reality/virtual reality platforms for equipment maintenance and repairs, mission planning and training, and use in smart warehouses.