Author: Michael

The Army is targeting a limited prototyping activity in fiscal 2025 and a minimum viable product for new command-and-control capabilities by early fiscal 2026.
The efforts surround what the Army calls “Next Gen C2,” a top priority of the service’s highest leadership to include the chief of staff and Futures Command.
Officials have stated that current capabilities are not adequate to dominate on the modern battlefield against a sophisticated adversary. Thus, the service is attempting to overhaul how its systems are architected to improve data sharing and communications.

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A fatal helicopter crash that killed two New York National Guard soldiers and a border patrol agent in March occurred seconds after the helicopter began to rotate in the air as it hovered nearly 200 feet up above the ground, Army officials determined.
However, the Army did not release details on why the helicopter began to spin or how the crew reacted. 
During a routine flight near the U.S.-Mexico border, the UH-72 Lakota experienced “unanticipated yaw,” which caused it to rapidly fall 195 feet out of the sky into a crushing impact that killed both pilots and the border agent.

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Northrop Grumman recently completed testing of its airborne deep-sensing architecture in an Army prototyping event aimed at helping solve gaps with long-range precision fires.
The Deep-Sensing and Targeting (DSaT) capability is a multi-domain tool that’s integrated into a civilian aircraft for intelligence collection beyond the visual line of sight.

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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Over the past few weeks we’ve been on a meandering journey along the outskirts of Europe, looking at the border between the Near and Middle Easts as well as the evolving Orientalness of Spain.

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U.S. military members stationed in England at RAF Lakenheath had the opportunity of a lifetime to train like NFL stars, as part of “USAA’s Salute to Service NFL Boot Camp,” just days before the NFL’s London game between the Bears and Jaguars. During this incredible experience, participants competed in drills similar to those used by NFL coaches to evaluate players, including the 40-yard dash, broad jump, three-cone shuttle, receiving gauntlet, and the QB arm challenge. RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is the largest U.S. Air Force-operated base in England and the only U.S.

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