RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT, Texas (May 21, 2015) - Soldiers laud the ballistic protection Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, vehicles that provide them against underbody threats, but now a brand-new MRAP feature, the first of its kind for the Army, will help maximize warfighter safety and survivability. Electronic stability control, or ESC, is a computerized technology … [Read more...]

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (May 21, 2015) - With the steady increase in computing power, engineers are able to improve lethality with sophisticated computer models by eliminating unworkable designs. Mechanical engineers can understand the effects different caliber ammunition will have on targets. "We are able to get a more detailed small-caliber lethality analysis with more … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (May 21, 2015) - Nearly a dozen Vietnam Medal of Honor recipients will help the U.S. Postal Service dedicate a limited-edition stamp folio honoring them and other Vietnam heroes on Memorial Day. The "Medal of Honor: Vietnam War Forever" stamp folio sheets will be dedicated at a 1 p.m. ceremony, May 25, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in … [Read more...]

FORT KNOX, Ky. (May 19, 2015) - While enlisted Soldiers and noncommissioned officers, or NCOs, may have heard talk that diverse broadening assignments are in their Army futures, many do not know where to go for information and guidance on making them part of their career planning. While such documents as Army Regulation-621-7 and AR-621-1 lay out guidelines for specific … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 18, 2015) - Brainwave detection may one day make it easier for Army researchers to train computers to detect threats captured in digital images of the battlefield. Jean Vettel, Ph.D., a neuroscientist with the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, was wearing headgear lined with brain wave-sensing EEG, or … [Read more...]