The Army is training the first batch of Space Marines

About nine months after Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger ordered the activation of the new Marine Corps Forces Space Command, “select Marines” from the nascent unit will start training at the Army’s Space and Missile Defense School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to an Army news release, which said they’ll learn “situational awareness of space capabilities, space assets, space products, and the impact of space on operations.”

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Computers in your clothing? Army wants to embed chips into fabric

The Army is working on a programmable fabric that could transmit data from soldier’s uniforms.

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Pentagon Eyes Possible Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine as FDA Weighs Approval

The Pentagon is considering making COVID-19 vaccinations for troops mandatory once the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the shots, part of ongoing discussions about the next step in the agency’s response.

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Army researchers develop game-changing cybersecurity software tool

“Moving target defense, or MTD, is a very promising approach to defense,” Acosta said. “This technique constantly shuffles, or changes, system properties in order to nullify any intelligence information that an adversary may have, and that may be used to compromise systems. There are many existing theories, algorithms and models for this novel type of defense, but until now, it has been nearly impossible to conduct comparative analyses to generate situation-specific decision support.”

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