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Learning Through Disaster
Military catastrophes teach IDEAL students about strategic planning and leadership. by Debra Valine Desert One, the 1980 attempt to rescue 52 American hostages in Iran, failed. America’s Delta Force,...
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Collaboration Works
Bell’s experience with the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator shows the effectiveness of government-industry collaboration to deliver advanced technologies to the warfighter—and points out ways...
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Prime Partnership
The Army teams NVESD with General Micro Systems to put multifunction video display at all crew stations inside the MRAP mine-clearing vehicle. by Chris A. Ciufo Keeping U.S. warfighters prepared on the...
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Four Future Trends In Tactical Network Modernization
Advances in commercial wireless enable Army mobile tactical internet. by Charlie Kawasaki Our adversaries possess increasingly sophisticated communications and information technology (IT), allowing...
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A Bold Future For The Army
Reimagining the Army’s logistics enterprise resource planning systems. by Jim Kinkade and Jay Chung If the Army could start over today, it would not choose to design the enterprise resource planning...
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Working the process
Benjamin Little COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Product Manager for Virtual Training Systems, Project Manager for Training Devices, Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation TITLE:...
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From The Army Acquisition Executive: Intellectual Property Lines
FROM THE ARMY ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE BRUCE D. JETTE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LINES Army’s new policy seeks cost-effective solutions in managing IP that balance the interests of government, industry and...
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Complex Geometry
Additive manufacturing holds great potential, but much work remains to be done for the Army to get to additive nirvana. by Steve Stark Additive manufacturing shines with promise. The discipline, also...
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Thinking In Volumes
Sidebar to Complex Geometry By Steve Stark Additive manufacturing demands a whole new way of thinking, and we’re not even close to what’s possible in this exciting technology. One of the best ways to...
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Why The Hype?
Additive manufacturing is all the rage, but why? by Steve Stark Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, gets people—and the Army is no exception—very excited because of its apparent potential to make...
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Making Progress
The Rakkasans and a university are innovating 3D printing to direct traffic at the tactical level. by First Sgt. Robert Clark and Capt. Aimee Valles Innovation is about finding new and sometimes...
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Small group leaves big footprint
Master Sgt. Keita N. Lyles COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: 902nd Contracting Battalion, 418th Contracting Support Brigade POSITION AND OFFICIAL TITLE: Battalion sergeant major and senior enlisted adviser YEARS...
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Then And Now: Training for the Future
Then And Now 1993 & 2019 Training For The Future Force 2025 and beyond will need a new training system to thrive in ambiguity and chaos—the synthetic training environment. The Army’s picking up...
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I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up
Robots should rescue Soldiers, not the other way around. So the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is developing software to help robots pick themselves up after a fall. by Jacqueline M. Hames Most...
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Change Agent
Change happens because people find that the changes work for them. In its quest for modernization, the Army can learn a great deal from one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational...
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CCDC’s Road Map To Modernizing The Army: Future Vertical Lift
Third in a series of articles on how Combat Capabilities Development Command, formerly the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command and now part of Army Futures Command, is supporting...
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Avoiding the perils of a poorly written contract
Staff Sgt. Adriane Dunklin COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: 626th Contracting Team, 902nd Contracting Battalion, Mission and Installation Contracting Command – Joint Base Lewis-McChord TITLE: Contract specialist...
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Learning On The Go
Acquisition Soldiers field forward-deployed SFAB tactical network modernization on the fly. by Amy Walker The Army is pushing full steam ahead with network modernization efforts that are making...
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Career Navigator: Don’t Board A Plane Until You Read This Article
As a DOD employee, you’re eligible for TSA Precheck—have you opted in? Jacqueline M. Hames From having to book the cheapest flight to departing at odd hours and enduring multiple, long layovers—plus...
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‘STOP THE BLEED’: the Simple Art of Saving Lives
It’s only been since the early 1990s that CPR training has been available to the general public, and this simple training has saved countless lives. MRMC’s ‘Stop the Bleed’ campaign aims to save even...
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