JULY 1, 2020 - U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa (NNS) -- It seems counter-intuitive, but China is increasingly a concern for the commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Joint Force Command. Navy Adm. James G. Foggo told the participants of a webinar sponsored by the International Institute of Strategic Studies that China is actively … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2020
Soldiers Test New Night Vision Capabilities
JULY 1, 2020 - "Really good" was never really going to be good enough for the Army team developing the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular. Nine months after equipping the first unit with the ENVG-B, developers are testing the rigor of system enhancements at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, La., in order to assess new augmented reality technologies and the … [Read more...]
Risk Aversion Impedes Hypersonics Development
JULY 1, 2020 - Speeding ahead with the development of hypersonic weapons, both offensive and defensive, will require the Defense Department to look back to the 1960s — a time when it was far less risk-averse than it is now, the department's director of defense research and engineering for modernization said. "We need to be less risk-averse. And that doesn't mean we seek to … [Read more...]