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Army leaders have confirmed that slain Spc. Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed by a supervisor in her unit, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood. A lengthy investigation directed by Gen. Michael X. Garrett, commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, revealed that Guillen was harassed by a supervisor in a unit orderly room and in the field during training in 2019, about nine or 10 months before her disappearance. Investigators, however, did not find a connection between the sexual harassment and her subsequent disappearance and death. As a result of Guillen’s unit’s failure to take a...

Army’s new night vision goggles give soldiers firepower in smoke, dust, and dark Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner As the sun fell behind the volcanic mountains during a recent exercise on the island of Oahu, home of the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Schofield Barracks, soldiers were actually able to see their targets more clearly — just in augmented reality. Army Futures Command’s latest modernization effort, enhanced night vision goggles-binoculars, gives soldiers the ability to fire at targets at distances over 400 feet without even shouldering...

AUSTIN, Texas (April 27, 2021) — Austin startup Apptronik has created a robotic arm resulting from an innovative project model to increase how fast artillery pieces fire and are resupplied. The company will demonstrate the potentially game-changing arm on April 30 at its Stonehollow Drive facility. Austin-based Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), a subordinate organization of Army Futures Command (AFC), ran the Army’s first-ever cohort program for solution development, from which Apptronik was selected to continue development of its prototype. The cohort brought six tech c...

The Army Upgrades its Air Defense Capabilities With an Eye to the Future Share This: Asian Military Review In an effort to update and upgrade its air defense systems, the U.S. Army delivered the first four operational Stryker anti-aircraft vehicles.  The 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (5-4 ADA), under the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, is the first battalion in the Army to test, receive, and field the Mobile Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) system. The 5-4 ADA is based at Shipton Kaserne in Ansbach, Germany. The M-SHORAD is placed on the lightly armored 8×8 ...

JADC2 Strategy Nearing Completion, Official Says shulz/iStock.com email April 22, 2021 10:00 AM ET Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall said the strategy has been briefed to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the deputy secretary of defense. The Defense Department is in the final stages of work on its strategy to connect sensors from each military service under a unified network, according to the top project official on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Both Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of Defense, have reviewed t...