
The Army on Tuesday released its new Arctic strategy calling for establishing a two-star headquarters in the region with specially-equipped combat brigades and delivering new capabilities to bolster operations in harsher cold-weather, mountainous conditions. The new document specifically highlights a need for an improved cold-weather all-terrain vehicle, new power generation systems, unmanned technologies and space-based communications systems to support future Arctic units. “The Arctic is an opportunity to rapidly employ the speed, range and convergence of cutting-edge technologies being developed…