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National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Mix of Live and Virtual Training Will Result in Savings, Army Says Army training has taken place in three separate realms: out in the field, in front of screens where the real world is simulated with computer-generated graphics, or on desktop computers.
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel	Soldiers Skeptical of Smartphones in Combat Commercial smartphones are lightweight, inexpensive and most soldiers already use them in civilian settings. But the Army is finding out that the devices may not always be needed or even wanted on the battlefield.
National Defense April 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Bridging Training Gaps In Vehicle Convoy Operations The U.S. Army's training and simulation branch is trying to address deficiencies in convoy operations---"a very bad weakness," according to a service official.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Battle-Scarred Troops Have Message for Army Training: Get Real A decade at war has presented officials with a dilemma: The training environment now must be made even more authentic to hold the attention of soldiers who already have experienced the real deal.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Training to Shift Emphasis to Dismounted Soldier The Army's training programs have been too vehicle-centric and have not focused enough on the dismounted soldier, particularly in urban combat. That will change in the future, said Brig. Gen. Stephen Seay, Army program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation.
AskMen.com Steve Richer	How To: Join The Special Forces It used to be that the Special Forces only recruited from within the military, but now even civilians can sign up. Here's how you can become a member of the Special Forces.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Security Policies Deny Soldiers Access To Critical Information, Army Contends The Army's latest advances in networking technology are being slowed by security policies that restrict soldiers' access to information.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard	The America's Army development team introduces new version, new partner AA:SF marks the 22nd update to the America's Army computer game and the third release focused on the Special Forces' role in the Global War on Terrorism.
T.H.E. Journal December 2002 Michael T. Eskey	Distance Learning With the Electronic Army University, each soldier is given the opportunity to receive a quality education, while the Army retains an educated member.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment.
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Tech-Warriors Changing the Face of the Army Private First Class Nicholas Johnson is not your average private. He was a network administrator in his previous life, and has an extraordinary ability to grasp soldiers' needs and turn them into digital products.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007	U.S. Army Officers Select Cubic Virtual Training Systems for Use in Iraq, Afghanistan Officers at the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation and Training Instrumentation (PEO STRI) use Cubic's Engagement Skills Trainer 2000 (EST 2000) small arms training system.
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel	Army Makes New Attempt To Field Networked Soldier System The Army is making another attempt to connect infantrymen to the battlefield network with a wearable system of hands-free computers and radios.
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Struggling With Rising Demand for Communications Conveniences of the information age that troops in combat used to regard as luxuries are now viewed as necessities.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Proponents Hope 'Rodeo' Can Move Army Ground Robots Forward Representatives of some 50 companies, service research labs and universities gathered at Fort Benning, Georgia to show off the state of their art at the second annual Robotics Rodeo.
National Defense April 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Army to Equip Soldiers With New Sensors for Night Targeting The wars of the past decade exposed weaknesses in Army technology for infantry troops. Close-combat equipment such as night vision goggles and weapon sights are bulky and drain batteries fast.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Fine-tunes Training, Tactics for Urban Combat The U.S. Army, grappling with the intense stress of urban operations in Iraq, requires more training facilities to better prepare troops for this treacherous combat, officials and war veterans said.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Soldiers Test Impact of Virtual Training on Live-Fire Performance During a recent exercise called Bold Quest, held at Ft. Benning, Ga., soldiers and Marines tried their hands at the latest virtual training technology. The event was aimed at studying whether and how such training can augment live exercises at the small-unit level.
National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy	To Ease Deployments, Army Revamps Way It Runs Bases Seeking to ease longstanding problems exacerbated by frequent troop deployments to fight the war on terrorism, the U.S. Army is reorganizing the way that it runs its military bases across the United States and around the world.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers' Backpacks Not Likely to Get Any Lighter While most military gear has become lighter over the years, essentials such as food, water, and ammunition still weight soldiers down.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Smartphones-for-Soldiers Campaign Hits Wall as Army Experiences Growing Pains "A smartphone for every soldier" may be a clever slogan. But trying to turn it into reality is becoming an uphill battle for the U.S. Army.
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean	Game Branches Out Into Real Combat Training The Army's PC-based video game, America's Army, is morphing beyond its original mission, becoming the platform for numerous other military and government training simulations.
National Defense December 2013 Valerie Insinna	Army, Marine Corps Look for Better Data on Simulator Effectiveness Both services need to establish metrics to calculate just how effective their simulators are. Furthermore, they need a more comprehensive method to compare the costs of live and virtual training.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.
National Defense June 2014 Valerie Insinna	Army Releases New Video Game Training The Army in March debuted its newest flagship video game, Virtual Battlespace 3, meant to help troops practice tactics before enacting them in a live environment.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Army `Land Warrior' Not Yet Ready For War, Gears Up for Next Tryout After a disappointing evaluation by users of a new high-tech soldier ensemble, the Army is redesigning portions of the system to make it lighter and easier to use, officials said.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel	Avatars Invade Military Training Systems The influence of video games on military training has been substantial, and the military's interest in avatars -- for soldiers and other actors in simulations -- is growing.
National Defense December 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Revises Doctrine for Modular Brigades Caught between the pressures of war in the Middle East and the need to reorganize, the U.S. Army is juggling new methods of combat training while rewriting the rulebook for equipment and tactics.
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Soldier Energy Needs Outpacing Technology, Policy The military over the past decade has been grappling with the issue of power and its effects on everything from the mundane -- like microwaves and coffee pots -- to the sustainment of troops on foot patrols.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Army, Why Can't Soldiers Be Customers? Nowhere do companies find it more difficult to concentrate on true customer needs than in the Army procurement system.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Wanted: Soldiers With Cultural Savvy One of the catchphrases in Army circles these days is "culture training."
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Equipment Choices Shaped by Afghanistan War While the Obama administration ponders a future strategy for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the Army is rushing to buy new combat equipment especially suited to that nation's high altitudes and tough terrain.
National Defense August 2013 Dan Parsons	Google Glass Eyed for Wearable Soldier Gear Army officials have been after a way to outfit soldiers with wearable computers for years, but have repeatedly failed to find a system that both delivers information coherently and avoids impairing troops' perception of the battlefield.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	Ultra Light Combat Vehicle Could Buck Trend of Slow Truck Procurement If everything goes to plan, the Army could field about 300 ultra light combat vehicles by the end of fiscal year 2016.
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra Erwin	An Army Under Stress: A Tale of Two Green Lines An upcoming decision on whether to begin drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq sets the stage for yet another round of inside-the-Beltway wrangling on the burdens this war is piling on the armed services.
National Defense October 2004	Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Shachtman & Coburn	The Army's New Land Warrior Gear: Why Soldiers Don't Like It There's a half-billion dollars invested in the gear hanging off the heads, chests and backs of the soldiers. But do the soldiers find all the high tech gear useful?... The global battlefield...
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	In Search of Better Ways To Provide for Soldiers The Pentagon spends $80 billion a year on logistics, and yet fails to help soldiers solve seemingly easy problems.