JANUARY 23, 2020 - To help Soldiers to better understand the complex rules of war, the Army has released Field Manual 6-27, the Commander's Handbook on the Law of Land Warfare. The handbook provides crucial guidance to Soldiers and Marines on the Law of Armed Conflict, or LOAC. It also helps U.S. troops comply with international and host nation laws. Some of the LOAC rules … [Read more...]

JANUARY 22, 2020 - During an Army Housing Summit Jan. 14-16, senior Army leaders and privatized company executives met at Army Materiel Command headquarters to review the status of the Army housing portfolio and develop a strategy for long-term improvements across the installation enterprise. The Army's seven private housing companies, which have 50-year lease agreements … [Read more...]

JANUARY 21, 2020 - As the U.S. Army increasingly uses facial and object recognition to train artificial intelligent systems to identify threats, the need to protect its systems from cyberattacks becomes essential. An Army project conducted by researchers at Duke University and led by electrical and computer engineering faculty members Dr. Helen Li and Dr. Yiran Chen, made … [Read more...]

JANUARY 21, 2020 - The Army secretary along with senior Army officials joined industry leaders last week to get a closer look at cutting-edge capabilities for future vertical lift ahead of the fiscal year 2030 goal to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk. Developers from Bell Textron, a Texas-based aerospace manufacturer, demoed their part-aircraft, part-helicopter -- Bell V-280 … [Read more...]

JANUARY 17, 2020 - The nominee to be Army's next undersecretary testified before Congress Thursday, pledging to confront four challenges now seen across the service. If confirmed, James E. McPherson, who has served as the Army's general counsel since last January, said he would focus on ways to stem suicide, sexual assault/harassment and domestic violence among the ranks as … [Read more...]