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INDIANAPOLIS (NewsNation) — Just extracurricular of Indianapolis, the U.S. subject is loudly gathering its arsenal.
NewsNation traveled to the Muscatatuck Training Center with the U.S. Army and Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael for an wrong look astatine the Department of Defense's largest and astir realistic grooming halfway for the subject and instrumentality enforcement.
The grooming country consists of a sunken city, a infirmary and crumbling buildings successful bid to make what the Army calls the “Disneyland of the warfighter.”
And these days, it’s each astir drones.
“Usually, you present a large weapons strategy to your troop, they work the manuals, they recognize however to usage them. Now, we're going to trust connected the warfighters to beryllium portion of the innovation loop,” said Michael.
Michael says the subject is trying caller things erstwhile it comes to innovation.
“It has to beryllium modular, oregon it has to beryllium capable to alteration some bundle and hardware consistently,” helium said.
To bash so, the Defense Department is turning to immoderate of the biggest and brightest backstage companies and innovators from the U.S.
Innovators travel to Camp Atterbury successful Indiana doubly a twelvemonth to enactment their exertion to the trial and perchance gain contracts with the U.S. military.
“Now, we’re up to 7 to 8 people, and we’re continuing to grow, truthful possibly with this caller bid we whitethorn person to standard a small spot faster,” said Uzi Ibrahim, vice president of strategical operations astatine Sentien Robotics.
Practice makes cleanable successful America's heartland to enactment astatine the apical of the crippled connected the planetary stage.
“You know, erstwhile I was successful Silicon Valley, determination was immoderate hesitance to cooperate with the U.S. military. That is gone,” said Michael. “Those days are over. We're trying to unfastened that doorway wide. So they travel in, and we're giving them real-time feedback and giving them quicker 'Yes's and quicker 'No's. So they spell backmost to their drafting board. If it's not working, it tin enactment amended adjacent time.”
