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The Army’s Big Convention Was Full of Armed Robots

For now, Western militaries remain reluctant to buy ground weapons that choose their own targets. But that may change.
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In July 2021, Gen. John Murray, then head of the Army Futures Command that leads the development of future robotic combat vehicles, recalled his own days training on tanks. What qualified as excellent human performance wouldn’t meet the smell test for a machine, he told NPR’s On Point.

“They’d say you had to have a 90% success rate, which is pretty good on the flashcards to qualify to sit in that gunner seat. But with the right training data and the right training, I mean, I can't imagine not being able to get a system, an algorithm, to be able to do better than 90% in terms of saying ‘this is the type of vehicle that you're looking at,’ and then allowing that human to make that decision on whether the machine is right or not, and to pull the trigger.”

That says a lot about the future role of human operators on the robotic battlefield and how human limitations will one day be a bigger factor than the limitations of AI.
 
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Future Army medics will lean hard on new tech to help mass casualties

Autonomous casualty evacuation, combat surgery telemedicine and more advances are needed.
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Also, at AUSA this week, one of the xTechSearch competition winners, a program that seeks out tech solutions from small businesses, displayed a “smart shirt for wound detection.” The shirt features a woven lattice of sensors inside a combat shirt or jacket that can instantly report a puncture over 2 mm in width.

The company developing the shirt, Legionarius, is adding “bladders” to the shirt that could immediately compress wounds to staunch bleeding.
 
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Army Special Operations Command aims to reverse recruiting woes

Army Times sat down with USASOC's commander last week for an exclusive interview.
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“We’re making up about 50% of our force off the 18X program for direct recruits off the street — and these are highly talented people...[like] journalists, stockbrokers, lawyers” and others with STEM degrees, Braga explained. “It’s been the lifeblood of our [recruiting] efforts.”

There’s also the potential that overproduction on such contracts could help fill the ranks elsewhere in the force, which is grappling with a historically-bad recruiting crisis. Direct entry programs for special operations allow recruits who don’t pass to be reassigned according to the Army’s needs — an oft-repeated joke holds that the 18X program is the 82nd Airborne Division’s top source of recruits.
 

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