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National Museum of the United States Army Opening on Veterans Day 2020

By U.S. Army Press Release

The U.S. Army plans to open the National Museum of the United States Army on Veterans Day, November 11, 2020. …

A staff member demonstrates CRDAMC’s “virtual ward” (pilot) system which includes a wireless blood pressure cuff and pulse oximeter that transmits a patient’s vital-sign readings via Bluetooth to a web-based database on the dedicated cellphone. The remote monitoring capabilities of the Virtual Ward offers certain patients the option to reduce their hospital stay and recover at home. (Photo by Patricia Deal, CRDAMC.)

‘Virtual Ward’ Telemedicine Pilot Program to Reduce Hospital Stay Time

By U.S. Army Press Release

by Patricia Deal, CRDAMC Public Affairs

The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center (CRDAMC) at Fort Hood, Texas is test …

Army Refining Threat Identification, Targeting Capabilities with AI Software

By U.S. Army Press Release

The Army continues to refine and evaluate an artificial intelligence software prototype for Army intelligence that is designed to quickly …

Green Berets with 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) practices self-recovery from a glacial crevasse during Valor United 20, an arctic warfare training exercise in Seward, Alaska. During the September 2020 exercise, Special Forces and conventional soldiers alike developed their patrolling and survival skills in some of the most unforgiving terrain in the U.S. Key focus areas for the training were arctic, alpine and glacier movement, crevasse rescue, and long-range high-frequency communications. In addition to training, the 1st SFG (A) team assisted 212th Rescue Squadron with wilderness search and rescue operations. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Courtesy Photo)

Special Forces Soldiers Reinforce Arctic Combat Skills

By U.S. Army Press Release

As great power competition between the United States, China, and Russia intensifies the Arctic has developed into an international competition …

Lt. Col. Robert P. Venton (right) and Command Sgt. Maj. Gordon Lawitzke (left), the commander and senior enlisted leader respectively of the Fort Drum Soldier Recovery Unit, prepare to case the iconic colors of the 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment Warrior Transition Unit (WTU) during a re-designation ceremony on Fort Drum, N.Y. June 16, 2020. The WTU was re-designated the Fort Drum Soldier Recovery Unit as part of the Army’s restructuring of the Warrior Care and Transition Program to the Army Recovery Care Program. The new model of wounded warrior care will simplify entry criteria, streamline processes and focus resources to foster an environment that will serve individual wounded, ill and injured Soldiers. (U.S. Army photo by Warren W. Wright Jr., Fort Drum Medical Activity Public Affairs)

Warrior Transition Units Become Soldier Recovery Units

By U.S. Army Press Release

Soldier Recovery Units across the country held ceremonies to mark a major milestone in the Army Recovery Care Program restructure: …

A bolometer detects electromagnetic radiation by measuring the temperature rise as the photons are absorbed into the sensor. The research team fabricate this bolometer by exploiting the giant thermal response of graphene to microwave radiation. (Courtesy)

Army-funded Research Develops Thermal Imaging Sensor with 100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity Than Current Commercial Sensors

By U.S. Army Press Release

By U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs

Army-funded research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times …

The Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, or CCDC SC, is working with industry to develop a new shelter fabric that will increase durability in subzero conditions and provide electromagnetic, or EM, shielding. The EM shielding will prevent the detection of EM emissions that are generated within a Command Post shelter and provide cybersecurity to Command Post wireless networks. (CCDC)

U.S. Army’s New Fabric Will Enhance Cybersecurity, Subzero Weather Durability

By U.S. Army Press Release

The Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, or CCDC SC, is working with industry to develop a new shelter fabric …

Hon. Alex Beehler (second from right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment, and Hon. Aimee Jorjani (right), chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, listen to an overview of the housing plan for Ft. Belvoir’s Soldier and family communities. (U.S. Army)

Historic Army Housing and Military Families to Benefit from Innovative Solution

By U.S. Army Press Release

As a result of close coordination with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, an independent federal agency that promotes historic …

Research through the U.S. Army Small Business Technology Transfer program, results in a product to accurately detect chemical weapons at low concentration levels. It is now being used by National Guard units throughout every state in the country, and the Army has begun fielding it to all units in areas where there is a threat of chemical agents. (U.S. Army)

Army Fields New Chemical Detection Technology

By U.S. Army Press Release

Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but technology from the U.S. Army Small Business Technology …

Army Tests Versatile Unmanned Aircraft at Yuma Proving Ground

By U.S. Army Press Release

The United States military has used unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for decades, and increasingly counts on them to perform dangerous …