The Army Hoora Guide to Transformation gives a summary of Army plans for transformation and links for more information about those plans affecting a time frame from the present until 2031. Many terms are defined as well as overall doctrine.
Tags: military transformation, asymetrical warfare, IBCT, Initial Brigade Combat Team, Interum Brigade Combat Team
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If your guide to this future is the first 30 days of the war in Iraq, then the vision of transformation that underlies FCS might seem appropriate. However, if your guide is the subsequent two years of combat, then the vision seems out of whack.As retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the president of the Army War College, testified before the House Armed Services Committee:
Technology is useful in unconventional warfare. But machines alone will never be decisive. … The tools most useful in this new war are low-tech and manpower-intensive … night raids, ambushes, roving patrols mounted and dismounted, as well as reconstruction, civic action, and medial contact teams. The enemy will be located not by satellites and [drones] but by patient intelligence work, back alley payoffs, collected information from captured documents, and threats of one-way vacations to Cuba. … Buried in an avalanche of information, commanders still confront the problem of trying to understand the enemy's intention and his will to fight.
The Army ise writing new doctrinal manuals and conducting new training exercises on how to secure and stabilize a country after the battlefield phase of war—a focus that emphasizes boots on the ground, cultural awareness, language skills, and intelligence-gathering based on eye-to-eye contact with the population.
This article brings up the huge amount development needed to understand the requirements of Barnett's sysadmin force. We have the Laviathan portion down but sysadmin is in tatters.
Tags: sysadmin, laviathan, barnett, kaplan, fred kaplan, fcs, future combat systems
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If your guide to this future is the first 30 days of the war in Iraq, then the vision of transformation that underlies FCS might seem appropriate. However, if your guide is the subsequent two years of combat, then the vision seems out of whack.As retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, the president of the Army War College, testified before the House Armed Services Committee:
Technology is useful in unconventional warfare. But machines alone will never be decisive. … The tools most useful in this new war are low-tech and manpower-intensive … night raids, ambushes, roving patrols mounted and dismounted, as well as reconstruction, civic action, and medial contact teams. The enemy will be located not by satellites and [drones] but by patient intelligence work, back alley payoffs, collected information from captured documents, and threats of one-way vacations to Cuba. … Buried in an avalanche of information, commanders still confront the problem of trying to understand the enemy's intention and his will to fight.
The Army ise writing new doctrinal manuals and conducting new training exercises on how to secure and stabilize a country after the battlefield phase of war—a focus that emphasizes boots on the ground, cultural awareness, language skills, and intelligence-gathering based on eye-to-eye contact with the population.
This article brings up the huge amount development needed to understand the requirements of Barnett's sysadmin force. We have the Laviathan portion down but sysadmin is in tatters.
Tags: sysadmin, laviathan, barnett, kaplan, fred kaplan, fcs, future combat systems
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| RobobugTM is one of the most sophisticated programmable, autonomous, six-legged walking robots available at this price. RobobugTM uses a Mekatronix MSCC11 microcontroller with 2Kbytes of EEROM for leg motion control. A proprietary leg walking algorithm allows you to develop different gaits on the robot. |
This little gem is less than $600 but smart kids in any country will learn how to hack them and send them on their way. What can this platform be used for? Can it carry weapons? How about surveilance? Tags: robobugs, robots
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The resulting shoebox-size robot doesn't resemble a lizard or a bug, but it can easily scurry up and down a tree or concrete wall. Arrays of tiny spines on the robot's feet catch on to microscopic rough spots on the wall. Those spines combined with the carefully choreographed motion of the feet and limbs inspired by Full's animal studies enable the robot to get a good foothold without sacrificing speed.
Full and his students have been helping Stanford University professor Mark Cutkosky and University of Pennsylvania professor Daniel Koditschek build robots that can climb walls. In the future, these mobile robots might seek out survivors in buildings submerged during a flood or search for hidden explosives in the rubble of war zones.
Tags: Robobugs, rescue, University of Michigan, wall-climbing
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The resulting shoebox-size robot doesn't resemble a lizard or a bug, but it can easily scurry up and down a tree or concrete wall. Arrays of tiny spines on the robot's feet catch on to microscopic rough spots on the wall. Those spines combined with the carefully choreographed motion of the feet and limbs inspired by Full's animal studies enable the robot to get a good foothold without sacrificing speed.
Full and his students have been helping Stanford University professor Mark Cutkosky and University of Pennsylvania professor Daniel Koditschek build robots that can climb walls. In the future, these mobile robots might seek out survivors in buildings submerged during a flood or search for hidden explosives in the rubble of war zones.
Tags: Robobugs, rescue, University of Michigan, wall-climbing
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The aim is for the bugs to carry tiny spy cameras. The bugs should be far more manoeuvrable than micro-sized conventional aircraft.
But mimicking an insect's figure-of-eight wing beat – to give optimum mid-air agility – is proving tough, New Scientist reports.
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The aim is for the bugs to carry tiny spy cameras. The bugs should be far more manoeuvrable than micro-sized conventional aircraft.
But mimicking an insect's figure-of-eight wing beat – to give optimum mid-air agility – is proving tough, New Scientist reports.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2006/09/craneflyL_175x125.jpg
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The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing four flying "robobugs", weighing up to 10 grams each and with wingspans of up to 7.5 centimetres. One of the two companies developing the craft for DARPA - Aerovironment, based in Monrovia, California - aims to have a "rough demonstrator" flying by the middle of 2008.
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Very quickly, robots the size of ants will be gathering information for various uses including serveillance and environmental monitoring. I have to wonder what possibilities exist for insect control, poison distribution and other creative activities.Tags: Robots, Darpa, Monrovia, robobugs
