3 Expert Insights from Future Soldier Technology USA

SAE Media Group held its fourth annual Future Soldier Technology USA Conference in Arlington, Virginia, June 6-7, 2023. The conference featured international military program leaders and engineers discussing modernization of dismounted soldier and marine equipment. In this video, Tech Briefs highlights three of the dismounted soldier and marine equipment initiatives discussed during the conference.

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00:00:01 [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] we're doing software spreads and for for our organization that's pretty new and for DOD is pretty new and it's kind of a paradigm shift online so we're doing multiple Sprints a year three six months and in the old way as the crow mentioned

00:00:47 is we said okay we're going to do 50 things and we're not going to test it until all 50 things work and so we wait for that to happen in Sprints we um this is the poll numbers up we we decide with the requirement community that we're going to tackle 10 objectives and then we do the coding in a circle and then at a timeline like say two months three months whatever

00:01:07 stop we stop and then we test foreign [Music] maybe small businesses or don't have the facilities to be able to do like humidity and chapter five testing those are some of the requirements to get in this is not a eight-tech test for your past or failures is just to give you some exposure of what can you and cannot

00:01:38 do what can your system to face to so if there's interest to that always looking to help you through that problem [Music] thank you [Music] so there's the mission statement for Soldier works self-generated a lot of what we've done with this has been bottom-up generation in the Army so four

00:02:06 and a half years ago there was me and one other person and we're now at a reasonably large organization and this year we've just been given 10 years worth of organizational funding to maintain this capability so we've had a really big win this year