The Future Soldier Loadout: Smarter Gear or Dead Weight?
About this episode
This episode explores how the technology soldiers carry will impact their performance and safety in combat.
The tech soldiers carry will shape their performance in combat, missions, and their safety and health. If you care about any of those things, you will love this episode. The next generation of American soldiers will operate with systems that blur the line between human and machine, but that future is still being worked out in real time. In this episode, three former servicemembers turned industry leaders look ahead to how frontline capabilities may evolve over the next decade and what will constrain them.
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