HEADS-UP


New integrated helmet technology like the HEADS-UP system shown here would eliminate the need for crew members to switch to their Army Combat Helmets when dismounting from their vehicles. The AUSA ILW Winter Symposium and Exposition highlighted HEADS-UP among the emerging technologies that will support the future force. (Photo by David Kamm, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center)


determining “the art of the possible” over the near, mid- and long term, Miller said. With the support of senior lead- ership, she said, the Army now has “a larger perspective that S&T does have a role in this continuing process of mak- ing the Army more capable.”


In TRADOC war games such as Uni- fied Quest, for example, “What we’re trying to do is to give you that technical underpinning and foundation so that when you play a war game, … it’s really informed by where we see technology going, what’s in the art of the possible, where we see other countries’ strategic plans taking it. We’re trying to look for those longer-term nascent technologies that really can make a difference in tech research,” Miller said.


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to explore


those technologies in conjunction with partners in the other services, one of which might have a greater stake in the technology and therefore be prepared to invest more money in developing it; industry, which may be able to devote independent research and develop- ment dollars to it; academia; and even other countries.


“All of us are running as we go,” Miller said. “We know it’s the future, and all you can do is take a best chance at try- ing to get it right.” (See related article, “Evolving Innovation,” on Page 86.)


For selected presentations from the AUSA ILW Winter Symposium and Exposition, go to http://ausameetings.org/winter/.


MS. MARGARET C. ROTH is the senior editor of Army AL&T magazine. She has more than a decade of experience in writ- ing about the Army and more than three decades’ experience in journalism and pub- lic relations. Roth is a MG Keith L. Ware Public Affairs Award winner. She is also a co-author of


the book “Operation Just


Cause: Te Storming of Panama.” She holds a B.A. in Russian language and lin- guistics from the University of Virginia.


CONTRIBUTORS: Ms. Marcia Holmes, chief engineer, PEO Missiles and Space; Ms. Amy Guckeen Tolson, U.S. Army Garrison – Redstone Arsenal; and AMC Public Affairs.


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