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Mark Pomerleau

Mark Pomerleau is a reporter for DefenseScoop, covering information warfare and cyberspace.

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A Bradley Fighting Vehicle assigned to the 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team,1st Infantry Division prepares to breech the defenses of a checkpoint during a training exercise at the National Training Center on Fort Irwin, California, August 11, 2022. (U.S. Army Photo by Pfc. Kenneth Barnet)

Army planning another on-the-move comms pilot for armored units

Tech

Soldiers demonstrate the Command Post Computing Environment prototype at Aberdeen Proving Ground. (U.S. Army photo by Dan Lafontaine, PEO C3T)

Army changing its approach for command post tool

Tech

An EC-37B Compass Call arrives at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Aug. 17, 2022. Compass Call suppresses air defenses by preventing the transmission of essential information between adversaries, their weapon systems, and control networks. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Vaughn Weber)

Air Force to activate two electronic warfare assessment detachments this month

Tech

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Englehardt, the noncommissioned officer-in-charge of the operations section for the 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, which is deployed to support 1st Theater Sustainment Command, gauges wind speed near the Camp Buehring, Kuwait, drop zone for the April 22, 2021 air drop of four bundles using the Joint Precision Air Delivery System, JPADS. Englehardt said JPADS uses the Modular Autonomous Guidance Unit, or MAGU, to manipulate the the parafoil’s rigging to steer it using GPS to reach its programmed coordinates. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe)

BAE scores $318M Army GPS contract

Weapons

Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C. March 30, 2023. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

NSA opening AI Security Center

AI

Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)

Army working on next-gen fires platform

Weapons

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Army awards SATCOM-as-a-Service contracts, looks to experiment with as-a-service models across entire network portfolio

Tech

The Under Secretary of the Army, Hon. Gabe Camarillo, visits U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 2d Cavalry Regiment during exercise Dragoon Ready 23 at 7th Army Training Command’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 1, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Low)

Undersecretary of the Army directs review of electronic warfare portfolio

Weapons

Army awards contracts for first AI program of record

AI