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2024: Three military killed and 25 injured by Iranian proxy strikes in Jordan or Syria
Pro-Iranian formations in January 2024 launched a drone at the Tower 22 outpost in Jordan: as a result of the attack, three were killed and 25 more American troops were injured.
The facility itself is located near the Al-Rukban border crossing, the refugee camp of the same name and the At-Tenf base, where the training camp of the Jaish Suriya al-Khurra group (ex- Jaish Magawir al-Saura) is located.
The shelling was carried out from the territory of the Syrian province of Essaouida, which is not controlled by the country's government.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the fact of what happened. American President Joe Biden also made accusations and threats of retaliation.
In just a day, at least five military bases and strongholds of the US Armed Forces were under fire from pro-Iranian formations, among which there was just an object in At-Tenf.
Representatives of Jordan said that there was no strike on the territory of the country, and the Americans suffered at the base in Al-Tenf, which differs from the version voiced by CENTCOM through CNN.
The fact is that the United States is quite official in Jordan. But in Syria, their bases are, to put it mildly, illegal, and therefore they can be formally attacked by anyone, the Rybar channel wrote, because local groups thus exercise the right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN - "the right to individual or collective self-defense."
2022
The United States began to use a single platform for military intelligence
In October 2022, it became known about the creation in the United States of an information and analytical platform for military intelligence Army Intelligence Data Platform. The system is entirely cloud-based and began to be applied to military intelligence battalions at Fort Gordon. Other intelligence specialists have access to the platform, including representatives of the Ground Forces Intelligence and Security Command, Sho Air Force Base and US Central Command. Read more here.
US allows personal smartphones
On September 30, 2022, a pilot program was launched in the US Army, which allows military personnel and civilian personnel to use personal mobile devices for communication.
The BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) initiative assumes that data is processed in the cARMY military cloud. To make calls, a specialized Hypori Halo application is used, which, as noted, provides high quality communication (including video) without degradation. This concept simultaneously ensures privacy and eliminates the need to store information on the smartphone itself. Therefore, military personnel do not have to hand over their gadgets to army storage facilities or risk their confiscation in a particular situation.
Work on the pilot project has been going on for over a year. It is assumed that at the initial stage about 20 thousand users will take part in it. This is, in particular, approximately 5,000 National Guard employees, approximately 5,000 military reserve personnel, as well as 10,000 active and civilian employees.
According to plans, the first 20 thousand users will be connected to the project during the year. The organizers will then study the feedback and wishes, on the basis of which a conclusion will be made about the effectiveness of the program. If everything goes smoothly, the initiative will be implemented by the army in fiscal year 2023.
The BYOD program is one of the measures of the US Army to modernize information infrastructure. Other areas include the use of cloud email and the Google Workspace suite of services for collaboration, task planning, storage, etc. In addition, over the next two to three years, the army is expected to completely switch to virtual desktop infrastructure for unclassified and secret work.[1]
Floating solar power plant deployed
In mid-June 2022, the U.S. Army unveiled a solar plant located atop Big Muddy Lake at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. It is the first floating solar plant deployed by the US Department of Defense and is part of a growing stream of support for floating solar power in the state.
The U.S. Department of Defense says the project's goal is to increase clean energy levels, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a nearby training center with a backup source of energy during power outages. The solar plant will be able to generate about one megawatt of electricity, which usually allows about 190 homes to be powered.
The system for June 2022 is the largest in the southeastern United States. The solar plant represents about 2% of the total number of solar plants in the United States, according to Duke Energy, which partnered with Fort Bragg and renewable energy company Ameresco.
The initial costs of floating solar installations are usually slightly more expensive than their terrestrial counterparts. The panels are located on a kind of raft, which is tied to the bottom of the reservoir. But floating power plants have unique advantages. At high temperatures, solar panels find it harder to generate as much energy from the same amount of sunlight. Fortunately, being on the surface of the water has a cooling effect, which allows the panels to generate more electricity than the panels on land. This makes floating solar panels more efficient and offsets higher installation costs over time.
And while solar energy as a whole has already become the cheapest source of electricity worldwide, it is quite demanding on the ground. To produce one gigawatt of electricity, a solar farm can occupy 20 times more land than a fossil-fuel power plant. Solar projects in the US have already clashed with some farmers who want to use the same land. Floating solar panels, by contrast, can avoid some of these contradictions. In the United States, they are most often installed on artificial bodies of water, such as reservoirs or canals. They are easier to build and less likely to have as strong an impact on sensitive ecosystems as installations built on natural ecosystems such as deserts.
To achieve the climate goals of the United States and the whole world, it is necessary to significantly increase the scale of the use of all renewable energy sources. The Biden administration has set itself a goal of moving to 100% clean energy in the grid by 2035 and reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is what is needed globally to achieve the goals agreed with most of the world under the Paris climate agreement.
The US Department of Defense is one of the largest polluters on the planet, with the US military emitting more greenhouse gases each year than about 140 states. Therefore, the new floating solar power plant in Fort Bragg is extremely necessary as a source of clean energy. In February 2022, the US Army published its own climate strategy, providing for zero emissions by the middle of the century.[2]
Transition to electrical military equipment
On February 7, 2022, the U.S. Army unveiled a comprehensive climate strategy that includes measures to reduce emissions, create a fleet of electric vehicles and train soldiers in worsening climate disasters such as floods, heatwaves and drought, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As part of this strategy, the Army plans to install microgrids at all of its facilities by 2035, and have an all-electric fleet of non-tactical vehicles by 2035. She will also work to reduce emissions from buildings and include measures to reduce the threat of climate change in her land management decisions.
The US Department of Defense also presented a plan to transfer all non-tactical military equipment to electric motors by 2050. We are talking about about 170 thousand machines for various purposes. The goal is to reduce emissions from US military equipment to 50% of 2005 levels by 2032, and by 2050 the army in terms of non-combat vehicles should become carbon neutral.
Under the strategy, by February 2022, the Army had already begun or completed 950 renewable energy projects, including the construction of a 2.1mW solar electric field at Fort Knox in Kentucky, as well as 25 micro-electric grid projects designed and planned through 2024.
In 2021, the Department of Defense warned that climate change was a critical threat to U.S. military operations and would lead to new sources of global political conflict. Water shortages, for example, could be the main source of conflict between the US military abroad and countries where troops are based, the ministry said.
 | Climate change threatens America's security and changes the geostrategic landscape as we know it, Army Secretary Christine Wormouth said. - For today's soldiers working in extreme temperatures, battling wildfires and supporting hurricane recovery, climate change is not a distant future, it is a reality.[3] |  |
2021
Launch of a laboratory for the development of quantum computing
In early May 2021, the US Army Research Office and the Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the launch of a research center for the development of quantum computing. The project was named LPS Qubit Collaborative (LQC). Read more here.
Launch a "software factory" to create military IT solutions
In late April 2021, the U.S. Army unveiled the first software development team at its "software factory" located at Austin Community College, Texas. The factory will help develop new applications for use in the military, as well as train coding soldiers so they can improve military operations with technology. Read more here.
2020: Cloud Division Launch
In April 2020, the US Army announced the work of the new Enterprise Cloud Management Office, which is responsible for the introduction of cloud services into military structures. Read more here.
2019
US military sent to Middle East ordered to leave smartphones at home
In mid-January 2020, it became known that before being sent to the Middle East, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army were ordered to leave at home all personal electronic devices, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops.
This decision is associated with insufficient provision of operational security at the front. The leak could endanger both the lives of soldiers and the success of military operations, division officials told the Times. Cybersecurity officials note that many organizations have learned to efficiently extract information on social networks. Now, by tracking accounts on social networks, you can determine the movement and possible intentions of entire army units - for this, for example, one photo or publication with geotagging enabled is enough.
In addition, cyber security blackmail of soldiers based on fake accounts is a dangerous threat to them. Soldiers who spend their free time on social networks can become victims of deception and upload malware to the device or reveal details of the upcoming operation to women of the opposite sex.
Hacking an account can become an even more serious problem - in this case, an attacker can gain full access to information about the movement of an object. However, the danger is not only the data of individuals. Earlier, the fitness service Strava published a world map with anonymized data on tracking fitness activity to show in which regions people devote the most time to physical training. While the released data was not linked to individuals, it inadvertently revealed the location of several secret military bases. Taking into account all the above, it is not surprising that the soldiers were asked to leave all the "trackers" at home, CNN notes.[4]
The US Army is adopting the Internet of Things
In early August 2019, it became known that the research laboratory of the ground forces USA is studying how to use the capabilities and infrastructure "smart" city on the battlefield. The lab is already testing a long-range global network (), LoRaWAN a protocol often used in smart cities to combine devices and sensors Internet of things () IoT in dense urban areas.
IoT refers not only to modern life, but also to modernized military bases. Under normal conditions, buildings, cluster objects and walls in cities could interfere with signals and, therefore, operations, but the capabilities of the Internet of Things can change the distribution of forces.
The goal of the project is to find out whether smart city technologies can expand the use of gadgets on the battlefield (create the Internet of Things on the battlefield, IoBT) and military applications.
Conventional IoT devices, including mobile phones, smart lights, TVs and appliances, generate the vast amounts of data needed for monitoring and predictive analytics.
On the battlefield, the same principles can apply to bases, mobile gadgets, drones and vehicles, including ships and cars. The principle of IoBT is to use information generated by sensors and networks for military use.
During the experiment, the military tried to send a report through IoT devices tied to the top of a vehicle that was moving around Montreal.
The messages were sent in the 915 MHz band, usually intended for industrial, scientific and medical use. Tests have shown that messages can be caught at a distance of about 5 km from the transmitter. The networks 5G have not yet been checked.[5]
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Notes
- ↑ Soldiers can use their phones for work under new Army pilot
- ↑ US Army deploys its first floating solar array
- ↑ The US Army is going electric – and wants to be net-zero by 2050
- ↑ US troops deploying to the Middle East told to leave personal devices at home
- ↑ US Army tests IoT for the battlefield in smart cities
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