The Army has learned critical lessons from pre-prototype platforms that deployed to theater to inform a program for new intelligence-gathering aircraft, according to a senior official leading the modernization effort.
The service has been on a multi-year journey to develop its own high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform based on a business jet, somewhat unfamiliar territory for an organization that’s better known for employing ground systems, helicopters and small drones.
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Sikorsky has a contract to equip the US Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter with its Matrix flight autonomy system.
This is real. This is a cybersecurity, law, policy, and roles and missions of the Federal Government. This is not a technology issue on how to take them down – that’s easy.
A complex swarm of drones wanders at will over the largest American National Security Joint Base cluster. Langley Air Force Base, Ft. Eustis (now a joint base with Langley), Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Norfolk Naval Station, Norfolk Naval Air Station, Little Creek Amphibious Base, Oceana Naval Air Station, Dam Neck Annex (Seal Team 6), etc. etc. etc.
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G. Lubold, et al., WSJ
U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them.
Jeff Schogol, T&P
The Army is in the initial stages of testing new, specialized bullets to shoot down small drones, Army officials said on Monday.
South, Army T.
The next developments for the Army’s newest rifle and machine gun may have more to do with software than bullets.
Joseph Trevithick, TWZ
Evolving autonomous resupply and other capabilities could open up new and valuable tactical opportunities for the Army’s Black Hawk fleet.
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More than 10 years ago, former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, and former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Adm. William McRaven observed that “conflict and competition are about people.” As a result “influencing these people—be they heads of state, tribal elders, and militaries and their leaders, or even an entire population—remains essential to securing U.S. interests.” This is the promise and potential of human geography.