The Army is planning to launch a pilot program in the Pacific using a controversial social science system that embeds anthropologists with combat brigade units.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Justin Doubleday was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until June 2021, where he focused on defense-wide topics including budgets, acquisition policy, combatant commands, missile defense and cyber. He has also worked for ITP sister publications Inside the Army and Inside the Navy. Justin previously reported for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2013.
The Army is planning to launch a pilot program in the Pacific using a controversial social science system that embeds anthropologists with combat brigade units.
More than four years after social media drove the revolutions known collectively as the Arab Spring, the Army is taking a closer look at open source information and how it fits into the service's broader intelligence operations.
Due in part to Russia's recent incursions into Eastern Europe, the United States' military-to-military relationship with Mexico has reached a high point, according to the commander of U.S. Army North.
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Lockheed Martin is touting its simulation of a fully autonomous mission using an unmanned helicopter and unmanned ground vehicle.
Citing soldier concerns with the current variant of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army, the service is seeking industry feedback on the intelligence system's next iteration.
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