MAY 31, 2019 - The U.S. Army drill sergeant hat symbolizes excellence, making the wearer of the iconic Brown Round an image to emulate. However, drill sergeants don't just leave the Drill Sergeant Academy infused with a career's worth of knowledge. Like every other Soldier in the Army, they must continually train to stay proficient. So with that goal in mind, U.S. Army … [Read more...]

MAY 29, 2019, COLUMBIA, SC - Soldiers and trainees got a unique opportunity to meet and train with the Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper, May 21, at Fort Jackson. Esper, a retired pathfinder and Ranger qualified lieutenant colonel, didn't hesitate to join trainees during basic combat training at Victory Tower during his tour. "I had a wonderful visit today," Esper … [Read more...]

MAY 29, 2019 - U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s (CID) Computer Crime Investigative Unit (CCIU) is once again warning Soldiers and the Army community to be on the lookout for “social media scams” where cybercriminals impersonate service members by using actual and fictitious information, not just for “trust-based relationship scams,” also known as romance scams, but … [Read more...]

MAY 23, 2019 - Army Futures Command is developing new mission command concepts that will enable Soldiers and robots to operate as effective teams in the future. Mission command is the Army's philosophy of command and a warfighting function that promotes freedom and speed of action. It combines the centralized intent from the commander with the decentralized execution of … [Read more...]

MAY 21, 2019 - A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned in previous tasks. The North Carolina State University researchers, funded by the Army, have also demonstrated that using the framework to learn a new task can … [Read more...]