JULY 7, 2020 - More than 200 enlisted Soldiers serving throughout the Middle East and Africa were slated to travel to Kuwait for the Army's Basic Leader Course in March. Then the military banned nonessential travel in response to the increasing threat of COVID-19. "I found out I wasn't going to BLC the day I was leaving," said Army Sgt. Robert M. Raitano, the noncommissioned … [Read more...]

JULY 3, 2020 - The Army is open for business, said the force’s top recruiting and training general, and is seeking-out thousands of talented, diverse recruits to fill its ranks during a three-day hiring spree designed to offset COVID-19 hurdles. The Army National Hiring Days, an ambitious three-day hiring windfall looking to draw more than 10,000 recruits, launched Tuesday. … [Read more...]

JULY 2, 2020 - The Army is overhauling how it does business behind the scenes in order to operate at the speed of conflict during the information age, said the top Army finance official, who outlined plans for a new business system slated to impact modernization efforts by 2027. The Enterprise Business System Multi-Functional Capabilities Team, or EBS-MFCT, is a three-tiered … [Read more...]

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...]

JUNE 30, 2020 - The Army is leading a joint effort to align its counter-drone systems into a streamlined command and control architecture, officials said, enabling more “plug and play” technology on an increasingly joint battlefield. All types of drone-zappers were assessed and evaluated on multiple criteria, said Maj. Gen. Sean A. Gainey, director of the Joint Counter-Small … [Read more...]