
Future Soldier 2030 Initiative was a
US Army
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program that was launched in 2009 with the mission to research and develop
future soldier
Future Soldier was a multi-nation military project launched by the United States and its allies in the late 1990s.
Superiority to enemy ground forces will be achieved by equipping the average ground-based combat soldier with an integrated set ...
s' equipments, weapons and body armors. The program investigated various
futuristic technologies, including
mind boosting drugs,
powered exoskeleton
An exoskeleton is a wearable device that augments, enables, assists, or enhances motion, posture, or physical activity through mechanical interaction with and force applied to the user’s body.
Other common names for a wearable exoskeleton in ...
s and
artificially intelligent
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
assistants.
[The future soldier.]
A Soldier Domain for Full Spectrum Warfare. Retrieved August 4, 2013.Future Soldier 2030 Initiative
Retrieved October 15, 2014.
Cancellation
In late 2015, the Future Soldier initiative was largely cancelled and shelved by its backers.
See also
* Future Soldier
Future Soldier was a multi-nation military project launched by the United States and its allies in the late 1990s.
Superiority to enemy ground forces will be achieved by equipping the average ground-based combat soldier with an integrated set ...
* Futures studies
Futures studies, futures research or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and wor ...
* Soldier 2025
* Supersoldier
A super soldier (or supersoldier) is a concept soldier capable of operating beyond normal human abilities through technological augmentation or (in fictional depictions) genetic modification or cybernetic augmentation. Soldiers that obtain greate ...
References
Military robotics
Body armor
Prosthetics
Future soldier programs
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