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Army To Bankroll Research Into Battlefield ‘Internet Of Things’

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

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In future wars, the Army expects to fight on complex multi-domain battlefields in which almost every piece of equipment is connected to all others through a battlefield network.Vehicles, weapons, individual soldier gear down to radios and night-vision goggles all are increasingly networked and present innumerable access points for enemies to invade and disrupt the Army’s “internet of battlefield things,” or IoBTs.Now the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has launched a program to develop ways of understanding, employing and exploiting IoBTs in…

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