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st Brigade and had planned extensive field tests in 2020. But the Airborne is the Army’s global rapid-response force, and the 1 st Brigade had two unscheduled deployments last year: one to the Mideast after US drones killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and sparked a regional crisis, the other to Washington, DC after police killed George Floyd and set of nationwide protests. Those real-world crises, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, forced the Army to postpone some tests and downsize others from a full brigade to just part of one. That’s why the Pentagon’s independent Director of ...

Pentagon weapons tester wants to delay fielding of new Army tactical network tools January 15 1st. Lt. Michael Austin, platoon leader for Attack Co., 1-503rd Inf. Regt., 173rd Airborne Brigade, uses the Nett Warrior End User Device to report information to his company commander through the integrated tactical network (ITN) during a live-fire exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in 2018. The exercise helped inform ITN basis of issue and inform ITN design decisions. (Spc. Joshua Cofield/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense’s weapons tester recommended that the Army delay...

Congress allots about half the money requested for Army command post modernization program December 23, 2020 The Army wants to make its command posts more mobile and better able to survive. (Richard Bumgardner/Army) WASHINGTON — Congress granted partial funding for an Army tactical network program to modernize command posts after the effort hit delays. In the earlier House version the fiscal 2021 budget bill, lawmakers proposed eliminating funds for the program, called Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2), citing the request as “ahead of need.” In the final compromise, wh...

Military taking part in this effort. >> we bring some special capabilities. a lot of disaster relief support type things. dewatering capability, the ability to help with power generation, road clearance. >> sandra: retired u.s. navy captain bob wells served as national security advisory to vice president dick an dick chad joins us. the military playing a key role in all of this. >> a key role certainly. the deployment of the two navy ships, as well as one from the virginia area, will increase the capacity to the armed forces units premise there in texas and the greater houston region. it's ver...

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