Microsoft is teaming up with defense technology company Anduril to boost the capabilities of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System as Army officials ponder the future of the program.
IVAS has been one of the Army’s highest-priority modernization initiatives, with Microsoft as the prime contractor. The system — which includes ruggedized headgear and software with night-vision, thermal sensing and augmented reality capabilities, among others — was inspired by the company’s HoloLens 2 device.
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After moving Dad into assisted living, things seemed to morph into logistics management more than health management. Dad’s stress levels went down living in a place with help – he didn’t have to worry about making food or taking care of a home and he was making new friends. He was coming and going back to the house to tackle his paperwork and move any other final things to his office or new home. His trips to the ER went away and I focused on our own move – from Kentucky to California.
Ready to jet-set around the world without emptying your wallet? Let’s dive into the ins and outs of Space-A travel so you can start planning your next adventure.
Here’s everything you need to know about Space-A travel:
What is Space-A Travel?
Space-Available (Space-A) travel is a perk that allows eligible passengers to fill unused seats on military aircraft. Think of it as the military’s version of standby flights. It’s a fantastic opportunity to explore new places, but it has its own rules and quirks.
War and art have an enduring and complicated relationship. Art has reflected the impact of war on humankind through every medium and format in all corners of civilization.
Depictions of battles are seen in ancient Egyptian stone carvings that date back to 3,500 BC.
Art has given us the famous anti-war painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso, overwhelming viewers with chaotic and devastating details of a bombing during the Spanish Civil War.
Artists have captured timeless patriotic symbolism in pieces like Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Your installation gym is more than just a room full of treadmills. It’s a hidden gem offering free or low-cost fitness programs perfect for military spouses looking to get active and find community.
Feeling intimidated? You’re not alone
Walking into the installation gym can feel like stepping into a whole new world. Buff soldiers grunting over weights, people sprinting on treadmills like they’re training for the Olympics, and you might be standing there thinking, “Do I even belong here?” Trust me, you’re not alone in feeling that way. But here’s the thing.
Loud noises. Sudden changes of plans. Overstimulation. Restless sleep. These are only a small cause for post-traumatic triggers for a combat veteran, or any veteran for that matter. Because military jobs vary widely in both skill and types of tasks, there is no one-size-fits-all gig. Circumstances vary greatly from what takes place while a person is on the job, to how the individual responds. All of these aspects play into a personal form of trauma.
Here are 5 tips for working through Post-Traumatic Stress with your spouse:
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md — The Air Force has delivered its cloud-based command and control (CBC2) capability to all of the air defense sectors within the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), according to the official leading the effort.
The service began deploying CBC2 as a replacement for legacy command-and-control systems used in air defense missions in October 2023, beginning with NORAD’s Eastern air defense sector. The Air Force has since finished fielding the capability to all of the air defense sectors across the United States and Canada, Maj. Gen.
Sailors on a fast-attack submarine became the Navy’s first-ever crew to receive the service’s new Arctic Service Medal, a decoration created last year to recognize missions that travel over, below or that surface through ice-covered Arctic waters.
The crew of the USS Indiana, a Virginia-class attack sub, earned the medal for their participation last March in Operation Ice Camp, a multi-national event held off the coast of Alaska which, atypically among large-scale military exercises, is exactly what it sounds like. Over three frigid weeks, troops from all five U.S.
The Pentagon’s plan for re-competing its maturing and widely used enterprise data and analytics platform — Advana — is designed around funding up to $15 billion in contracts to a diverse range of companies over the next 10 years, Chief Digital and AI Officer Radha Plumb announced on Wednesday at an industry day in Virginia.
There’s still much to unravel and resolve, however, around how the overarching acquisition process will pan out and the number of vendors that might be involved, three senior CDAO officials told DefenseScoop during the event.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As part of sweeping changes to its overall cyber enterprise to better posture itself against a China threat, the Air Force is elevating the role of warfighter communications.
Officials have teased in the past the split of the intelligence and cyber directorate on the Air Staff at the Pentagon — known as the A2/6 with “2” being intelligence and “6” traditionally referring to cyber, IT and communications.