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Photos: Virtual training at Fort Benning: The Army is increasingly utilizing new technologies to help soldiers learn their jobs. Example: the Virtual Interactive Combat Environment. by CNET News.com; Tags: Soldier, Training, Photograph, Army, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-07-07
Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21: Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21Not just security...Just as at a corporation where the company owns the computer, not you; in the military, the US Government owns the machine, the network its hooked up to,and everything els about it. As such the government has the right to restrict how those systems are used -...; Tags: Blogging, blog, security, government; Discussion threads 2008-02-29
Photos: Army touts top tech inventions: Aerial surveillance and counter-IED systems dominate the Army's top 10 list of gear that serves to protect soldiers.; Tags: soldier, photograph; Image galleries 2007-06-20
Pentagon management ignores Marine requests for tech weapons: Send in the drones. It appears that important surveillance equipment that takes up the slack when soldiers are in short supply, is also in short supply, reports Wired News.In Iraq, there are not enough soldiers to cover thousands of square miles, so having enough aerial drones to take up the...; Tags: Defense; Blog posts 2007-05-31
Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIP: Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIPThen they need to start paying our soldiers for putting their lives on theThen they need to start paying our soldiers for putting their lives on the line for protecting them.we have a solutionWe have several Boys enjoying our service...; Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, soldier, phone, VoIP; Discussion threads 2007-05-31

Plot to kill soldiers discovered by DVD transfer clerk: Plot to kill soldiers discovered by DVD transfer clerkGood job watching our soldiers back.While I don't think it would be feasible to do this to every video you transferred, they got a lucky break. Privacy is one thing, but when you accidentally catch a glimpse of something like that,you...; Tags: Consumer electronics, soldier, DVD; Discussion threads 2007-05-30
Luke's Binoculars hard-wire spyglasses right into soldiers' brains: Science fiction and military reality have seemingly merged now that U.S. Special Forces have developed powerful high-tech binoculars that connects a soldiers prefrontal cortex to hardware that detect threats by the soldiers subconscious, reports Wired.com. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, dubbed "Lukes Binoculars," after the binoculars Luke Skywalker...; Tags: Government technology, Defense; Blog posts 2007-05-03
The death of milblogs: For soldiers, the Armys hands-off attitude towards blogging must have been like that period in the 1960s before LSD was criminalized was for hippies. Jerry Garcia once said of that period, "They didnt know and it wasnt illegal and it was like, that was a really good year." All good...; Tags: Government technology, Defense; Blog posts 2007-05-03
Alerting vests for soldiers: Alerting vests for soldiersSpidey-sense for the militaryPractical? Who knows. But a cool idea nonetheless.Very usefulThis could be very useful. From what you wrote though the vest doesn't alert you to anything. It sounds more like someone is using the vest as communication too to alert you to danger.The difference here...; Tags: vest, soldier, vibration; Discussion threads 2007-01-03
Alerting vests for soldiers: If you were a soldier, Im sure you would like to be warned in real time of an imminent danger. According to New Scientist, MIT researchers have developed a vibrating vest which could send alerts to soldiers. But here comes the tricky part: the alerts will wirelessly be sent to...; Tags: soldier, motor, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security; Blog posts 2007-01-03
In Iraq, military seeking Universal Translator: For the military in Iraq, being able to speak with the locals is a huge problem. In the absence of enough translators, there was high hopes for technological fixes to the problem. But, the Washington Post reports, the Star Trek Universal Translator is still a long ways off. Two...; Tags: DARPA; Blog posts 2006-11-02
Photos: Robot rescuer for wounded soldiers: The Bear, from Vecna Technologies, would put itself in the line of fire instead of human stretcher-bearers.; Tags: Robots, soldier, robot; Image galleries 2006-09-21
Fla. Natl. Guard laptop with solider data stolen: A laptop stolen from a Florida National Guard soldier contained training and administrative records, including Social Security numbers, of up to 100 Guard soldiers, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Guard is conducting a security review. "We're doing everything we can do to protect the unit," Joe Myatt [of...; Tags: Guard, security review, soldier, laptop computer; Blog posts 2006-09-08
Land Warrior: Soldier-based tech gets a test run: On Star Trek, the Borg were a cybernetic race in which technology was deeply integrated with flesh and blood humanoids. We're not quite there yet, but with the Army's new Land Warrior system, currently getting a dry run at Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers and technology are getting closer than ever....; Tags: Land Warrior, Fort Lewis, soldier; Blog posts 2006-07-24
Images: Ultrasound heads for battle: Philips Research and the University of Washington explore using ultrasound technology to stem internal bleeding when soldiers are injured in battle.; Tags: University of Washington, soldier, Philips Electronics N.V.; Image galleries 2006-07-19
South Korea our soldiers are there to protect you - so stop screwing with their VoIP: South Korea our soldiers are there to protect you - so stop screwing with their VoIPGood job, we need a boycott if this goes throughWe really need to start billing S. Korea for all expenses. Then they can block all they want and we’ll give free calls to the...; Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, troop, soldier, phone, VoIP; Discussion threads 2006-07-08
South Korea our soldiers are there to protect you - so stop screwing with their VoIP: According to the Stars And Stripes newspaper, the South Korean Ministry of Information and Communications is arguing with several non-Korean VoIP services, trying to shut them down in that nation because they haven't complied with that nation's Telecommunications Business Act by registering as a phone service and applying for the...; Tags: Dacom, VoIP; Blog posts 2006-07-07
BomBots will save many lives: The first 200 BomBots will be shipped next week to Iraq before being joined by 2,300 other ones over the next 10 months. According to the Charleston Gazette, their mission will be to save lives of soldiers by destroying improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, which already can be blamed for...; Tags: robot, WVHTC; Blog posts 2006-04-21
Black & White 2 Treesoldiers mod (zip): This mod changes the soldiers in the game of Black & White 2 into pine and maple trees.; Tags: Soldier, Tree, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2006-03-29
Federal government pulling back from the Web: Government information is disappearing from the public Web. That, says Aliya Sternstein in this week's Federal Computer Week, is one thing government officials and public critics can agree on. As to whether this is a good, necessary thing or a bad, unnecessary thing, there is no end of...; Tags: OMB Watch; Blog posts 2006-03-02