23 août 2018 | International, Terrestre
By: Todd South
BETHESDA, Md. — The explosive ordnance disposal community has played a key role in operations in recent wars, and that role will only grow as the Pentagon shifts its focus to major combat operations against near-peer threats.
With that growing role, the equipment those EOD technicians carry with them will change, too.
At the National Defense Industrial Association's annual Global EOD Symposium recently, multiple speakers focused on how the community has spent the past two decades primarily working the improvised explosive device threat. But they cautioned that old and new threats will emerge in major combat.
Repeated throughout their comments was the admonition that the community must be “full EOD, not just IED.”
To meet that mission, the Army is turning to technology to help fill the gaps.
Pat McGrath, chief of the materiel development branch for Army Training and Doctrine Command's EOD concerns, laid out some of the new items in the works.
Army EOD teams will soon have three aerial drones, soldier-borne sensors, tiny “nano” helicopter drones and tethered Unmanned Aerial Sensors at their disposal.
The enhanced render safe kit will also include binocular night vision devices, lightweight dismounted X-ray machines, lightweight electronic countermeasures, and lightweight mobile detectors for radiation and chemicals.
The Army needs 176 kits and expects to have initial operational capability by 2021, McGrath said.
Full article: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/08/22/army-eod-soldiers-will-soon-get-a-whole-new-kit-and-new-robots
19 octobre 2021 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité
As budget experts caution the Army will see reduced or at best flat budgets in the coming years, service officials are readying for a more difficult look at how to cut costs to preserve modernization momentum. This could mean making harder decisions about the future of its inventory or making cuts to reduce readiness or end strength.
25 janvier 2021 | International, C4ISR, Sécurité
Selon une étude publiée jeudi 21 janvier par l'INSEE Bretagne, les effectifs des Armées en cyberdéfense seront en forte augmentation sur le territoire de Rennes Métropole jusqu'en 2025. Le développement des activités de cyberdéfense du ministère des Armées dans l'agglomération rennaise devrait se traduire par la création de 1 800 postes entre 2018 et 2025, et par des recrutements, précise La Tribune. Le quartier de La Courrouze abrite la Cyberdéfense Factory, un incubateur civil et militaire, ainsi que plusieurs groupes industriels de plus de 100 salariés et impliqués dans cet écosystème. Airbus Cybersecurity (protection des gouvernements et des activités vitales), Thales Services, Altran et la CyberSoC d'Orange Cyberdéfense concentrent à eux seuls 70% de l'emploi privé. « La présence du pôle d'excellence cyber permet le développement de synergies entre la recherche, la formation et les acteurs économiques », précise l'INSEE. La Tribune du 25 janvier
20 mars 2024 | International, Terrestre
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