Army experiments aim to provide soldiers with better grenades, AI, resupply, machine guns and more 2 hours ago Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments, an annual event, evaluates new technology that could benefit soldiers at the company level and below. (Army) The Army’s most recent annual series of experiments for soldiers at the tactical level showcase new tools for warfighting that could benefit troops at the company level and below. This year the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment looked at new and updated technology from a host of presenters over nearly six months. The key areas the Army cares about at the tactical level include: cross-domain maneuver; autonomous resupply; Group 2 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms; artificial intelligence; alternative fuel power generation, and soldier health monitoring. The experiment team looked at 42 concepts across those six major areas.
Army experiments aim to provide soldiers with better grenades, AI, resupply, machine guns and more
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Sgt. Phillip Cree, 3rd Battalion, The Rifles (British Army), provides last minute instructions to his Soldiers before they initiate an assault during AEWE 2016 on Fort Benning.
The British 3rd Battalion, The Rifles of the United Kingdom, and Soldiers of A Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment (Experimentation Force), partnered with the Maneuver Battle Lab to execute the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment, experimenting with a myriad of different technologies and how they can be applied to future war fighting tactics.
The purpose of AEWE is to examine prototypes and concepts that make small units more effective for future modernization, to get Soldier feedback early in the modernization process and to provide an opportunity for industry and the Army’s science and technology community to help the Army solve military problems, said Harry Lubin, chief of the experimentation branch at the Maneuver Battle Lab.