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Special operations forces could use mindfulness training to overcome cognitive burdens associated with increased reliance upon C4ISTAR technology and other human machine interfaces, academic sources ...
United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has released additional information surrounding its interest in a follow-on Light Tactical All Terrain Vehicle (LTATV) platform. LTATVs are ...
The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is seeking enhanced stand-off capabilities for operators conducing Special Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Exploitation (SRSE) operations, according to new request ...
US Naval Special Warfare Command is interested in wetsuit designs capable of insulating operators during underwater transit while strong enough to withstand follow-on tactical environments. ...
During a Patrol Craft Officer Coastal (PCOC) graduation field training exercise for the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS), Victor Arroyo, patrol craft officer ...
The French Air Force's elite special forces unit, the Commando parachutiste de l'air n° 10 (CPA 10), is displaying some of its equipment at this ...
28th May 2018
With the overlap between USSOCOM’s International SOF Week at SOFIC 2018, planners across multiple special operations organizations conducted an International SOF Capabilities Demonstration in, on ...
28th May 2018
While traditionally used to support infiltration and exfiltration of US Naval Special Warfare (NSW) elements, USSOCOM’s maritime surface mobility craftare now being explored as possible ...
27th May 2018
In June, the US Army will move forward with plans to acquire Block II MH-47G Chinook helicopters for its special operations forces. The service though, ...
26th May 2018
Polaris Government and Defense will support the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) with a single MRZR-X unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), company ...
26th May 2018
The US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) year-long ThunderDrone experimentation program will wrap up on 20th June 2018, SOFWERX officials have confirmed. Addressing delegates at the ...
26th May 2018
The US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) Program Executive Office for Command and Control, Communications and Computers (C4) has confirmed to Shephard it is still interested ...
24th May 2018
With receipt of a successful “Milestone C” acquisition decision in mid-April, USSOCOM and its industry partners are now moving into production for a total of ...
24th May 2018
When it comes to stand-off precision guided munitions (SOPGM), US Air Force special forces is challenging industry to bring forward new munitions and solve technical ...
23rd May 2018
US Air Force special forces is calling on industry to come forward with their small UAS to launch from its fleet of AC-130J Ghostriders. Under the ...
23rd May 2018
There are two ways to address the so-called “golden hour” of combat casualty care. The first involves the traditional process of rapidly treating and transporting ...
23rd May 2018
USSOCOM’s Non Standard Commercial Vehicle (NSCV) fleet is experiencing high theater demand, with a resulting increase in projected production figures. That was one of the ...
23rd May 2018
SOFIC 2018 has witnessed the launch of two new products by FLIR Systems, the R8SS-3-D radar and the Recon V Ultra-Light imaging device. The manufacturer ...
23rd May 2018
General Dynamics has unveiled its Flyer 72 Tactical Utility Vehicle (TUV), a design it is pitching as a way to help US special forces transport ...
23rd May 2018
US special forces will need new platforms with additional survivability to withstand a conventional conflict with Russia or China. US Army Gen Raymond Thomas, the commander of ...
23rd May 2018
The Pentagon is set to nominate a special operations soldier as the next commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, a military official told ...
22nd May 2018
The US Army has awarded AeroVironment a procurement contract for its Switchblade Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System (LMAMS). At SOFIC 2018, the company announced that ...
22nd May 2018
USSOCOM has embraced the potential involvement of so-called “hackers” and “makers” in an accelerated acquisition process. Hacker and maker involvement feeds the process through the ...
22nd May 2018
Cubic Corporation and Shield Aviation have teamed up to develop and pitch a new UAS ISR capability to US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Speaking with ...
21st May 2018
A US military service has fielded a new technology to jam and down incoming enemy UAS. At the request of the military, the Sierra Nevada ...
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