[ad_1] The threat of climate change has exposed more homes to flooding and wildfires, and it has intensified heat waves that prompt farmers to lose crop yields and a way to sustain a living. Climate change, among many issues, worries Barbara Schneider as she thinks about whether younger generations will be prepared to face scientific ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Army must adapt, its chief of staff has said in speech after speech, to a battlefield in which drones, sensors, and satellites will track soldiers’ every move. Among Gen. Randy George’s most prominent targets for reform are command posts—formerly sprawling compounds that must now be transformed into small, roving, camouflaged centers capable ...

[ad_1] HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—The Army may introduce a drone and robotics platoon into its armored brigade combat teams, an Army leader announced Tuesday at the AUSA Global Force conference.  A proposal to stand up the new type of platoon has been sent to the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, for eventual inclusion in an update ...

[ad_1] The Army intends to consolidate its force structure to close gaps left by recruiting shortfalls and to shift manpower from outdated jobs to emerging ones, the service secretary announced Tuesday. “Because of the recruiting challenges, our end strength has decreased notably and we”—Army Secretary Christine Wormuth and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George—“did not ...

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[ad_1] Britain and Latvia will co-lead an effort to send Ukraine thousands of first-person-view (FPV) drones, which Ukrainian and Russian forces have used in vast numbers as improvised loitering munitions.    At least some will come from British manufacturers, according to a British Ministry of Defense press release issued Thursday. The order will be the first ...

[ad_1] The Army aims to double production of a key munition used in Ukraine by October, Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said today.  U.S. production of 155mm artillery shells is slated to rise from 28,000 last October—the most recent month for which hard numbers have been released—to roughly 37,000 in April and about 60,000 in ...

[ad_1] A new Army space initiative will see space-based capabilities pushed “down to the operator level,” the service’s Space and Missile Defense Command chief Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey said last week, even as his command prepares to combat the growing threat of mixed drone and missile attacks.  In early January, the Army announced a new ...