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US Army’s shortfalls and successes in reaching its climate goals

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army, focused on meeting ambitious climate-related goals, is going to fall short of some of its objectives, including failing to field an all-electric, non-tactical vehicle fleet in the near term. However, the service is making progress in other areas, including rapidly expanding the use of microgrids at installations. The service in February 2022 released a climate…
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Apps to drive how soldiers use Army’s ‘mixed reality’ device

RESTON, Va. — In the not-too-distant future, soldiers at the lowest tactical level might carry a single device into combat that allows them to navigate, see in thermal or standard night vision, receive orders, fly a microdrone, and provide targeting coordinates for a strike mission. As batches of the newest version of the Army’s $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System — a combined…
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The Army’s new fitness program team will come to you

WASHINGTON — The command rolling out the Army’s new, all-encompassing fitness program has a fresh way to get the program’s expertise inside more units. If an active duty division commander can dedicate a five-soldier team — comprised of one captain, two senior…
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Exclusive: The inside story of how the Army rethought recruiting

WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Christine Wormuth knows she — and the Army — can’t control everything in life. The Army can’t control childhood obesity rates. The Army can’t control the falling rate of applicants medically or legally eligible to enlist. Nor can the service stop seismic shifts in the labor market, or control the falling percentage of veterans, who are traditionally the most…
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US Army narrows focus to one robotic combat vehicle

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has adjusted its pursuit of three robotic combat vehicles of different sizes, instead moving forward with a single size that fits the mission needs and can keep up with crewed combat vehicles, according to the service’s program executive…
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Leonardo shows off On Board Vehicle Power system with THAAD launcher

WASHINGTON — Leonardo DRS successfully demonstrated its On Board Vehicle Power system, which can route electrical power from a vehicle to a weapon system, in a recent U.S. Army operational user assessment focused on battlefield power generation and management, the company announced Monday. The OBVP system integrates with an Allison transmission and generates electrical power that can be routed…
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