This technology can store information in memory, sense and analyze data in real time. Army scientists are engineering mobile, lightweight digital fibers into soldier uniforms to generate power, gather crucial time-sensitive sensor data, and take new breakthrough steps toward deploying a wearable computer. The digital fibers, which are sewn into clothing, can store information in memory, sense and analyze data in real time. The first fibers with digital capabilities were developed by researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We need to perform calculations, conduct operations and use algorithms to alter data, raw data, and analog data that are collected with fiber sensors, to convert that into useful information for the soldier . . . that’s why having digital memory imparted to the fabric is so important,” James Burgess, the program manager for the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Army Research Office, told the