Army speeds high-tech tools to soldiers | CNET News.com

Filed under:Technology,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 8/15/2005 @ 3:29 pm

Army speeds high-tech tools to soldiers | CNET News.com

The U.S. Army is playing up its ability to get high-tech tools to soldiers in the field more quickly and more affordably.

Rather than weapons, the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force is focusing on devices such as surveillance systems for searching out explosives, or handheld computers with voice recognition that carry a stockpile of phrases in Arabic. The goal isn’t to devise the gadgets from scratch; instead, the unit looks for commercial products or items already in the production pipeline.

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