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Army Tests Multi-Function AR Goggles

With a year under its belt and a full staff, the Army Futures Command showed off some of its most promising projects. The Synthetic Training Environment cross-functional team has developed an all-in-one heads-up display for the tactical environment. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) looks like a pair of heavy-duty goggles, but it is a

Mattis’ Infantry Task Force: Righting ‘A Generational Wrong’

Eight months ago, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis created the Close Combat Lethality Task Force to right a generational wrong. A retired Marine Corps infantryman himself, Mattis understood that America”s close combat forces, consisting of less than 4{d2304f17c1c5781bd42c49d7ef2597c7dacafd93ead076f1d04eacb3fdc44546} of those in uniform, had suffered more than 90{d2304f17c1c5781bd42c49d7ef2597c7dacafd93ead076f1d04eacb3fdc44546} of American combat deaths since the end of World

DARPA’s New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40{05dcf356446b978828058459b63259cbd949ba30b3ab1afc5082accfc0e62d11}

An international team of scientists has created a non-invasive device that stimulates the brain to improve cognitive function. In tests on macaques, it reportedly increased the monkeys” learning speed by 40 percent. New research funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has successfully demonstrated how a non-invasive method of