Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

Sensor Trend: UAS Adopting WAMI Systems

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Though common on UAS, narrow-field FMV cameras have trouble finding and following dispersed targets over large areas. That's why platform providers are adopting wide-area motion imagery sensors for a variety of mission sets.  Learn more.

Project Rainmaker: Army Weaves 'Data Fabric' To Link Joint Networks The Pentagon's grand plans for Joint All Domain Command & Control require translating masses of data across incompatible systems. "Unless you get the underpinnings of a foundational data fabric," Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me, "it will never happen."

Learn By Losing: Give AI To OPFOR First The best way to show US troops the power of new technology like artificial intelligence, one general said, is to let them suffer defeat at its hands — in training exercises.

Army Creates New Units To Use Iron Dome The two air & missile defense batteries will be based at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the first Iron Dome weapons systems arriving from Israeli manufacturer Rafael by the end of the year.

QinetiQ Delivers Armed Scout Robot To Army: RCV-L The Robotic Combat Vehicle (Light), which can shoot missiles, launch mini-drones, and spot targets for artillery, combines a Marine Corps-tested unmanned vehicle with Army weapons and autonomy software.

Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray While Project Convergence's first big test, the Army's "experiment at scale for a combined arms operations," was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters. The convergence tests, linking weapons, sensors, systems and…

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