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Project Convergence: America goes to 'virtual war' with China ANI | Updated: Apr 16, 2021 06:26 IST Washington DC [US], April 16 (ANI): Amid the rising tensions with China, US Army's Project Convergence war games is set to hold operations in a transcontinental scenario - one meant to replicate the vast distances of the Western Pacific and the technological challenges of modern war, Asian Times reports. Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to pursue an artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled battlefield management system, according to...

Army Futures celebrates grand opening of Army Software Factory Drew Knight Replay Video UP NEXT The U.S. Army Futures Command on Thursday hosted a ceremony celebrating the opening of the Army Software Factory at Austin Community College's Rio Grande Campus. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the 20th chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, was in attendance. Milley is the nation's highest-ranking officer who serves as the principal military advisor to the president, secretary of defense and the National Security Council. The factory will lead a future force design through four main obj...

The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.  Bethea was leading a group of soldiers in a war a long way from home. Joining his unit for the rescue mission, and lying prone next to ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 08, 2021 at 12:02 PM An 82nd Airborne soldier trains with a Black Hornet mini-drone before deploying to Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: How do you make a platoon of foot soldiers ten times more effective? If your company has a new technology that might help, Army Futures Command wants to know by May 5th. That’s the deadline to submit ideas in AI, networking, and robotics for the Army’s “10x platoon” experiment, which is trying out tech to upgrade the future infantry force. The near-term goal is a series of field demonstrations next year at Fort Bennin...

In latest tests, Iron Dome intercepted and destroyed simulated existing and emerging threats, including simultaneous interception of multiple UAVs. Rafael Advanced Defense System and the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) have completed further advanced tests of the Iron Dome air and short-range missile defence system. Tests involving Israeli Air Force (IAF) personnel at a site in southern Israel ‘demonstrated a significant upgrade of the system’s technological capabilities’, Rafael announced on 16 March, by testing Iron Dome in multiple ‘complex scenarios’ to intercept and ...