What Advancements in Technology Do You Think Today's Military Would Most Benefit From?

They might find a benefit in going back to the basics and depending less of technology and more on Human skills and insure through proper training they have the skills they needed. Far too often a funtional traditional machine with a human operator can do things technology cannot duplicate. I'm NOT again advancements in research and technology but they are not always the cure all and machine actually do NOT think, they do what they are programed to do.

Technology is good, but when it goes down, I hope there are people around who remembers the old way of doing things.

UPDATING THE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEM AT THE VA! the program the VA uses is ancient - over 20 years and there are better EMR systems out there. Allow providers to have a government computer to check on their hospitalized VA patients to efficiently and effectively document and track patient’s medical progression. - Jennifer Balcazar, USAF veteran, PA-student, Dallas TX

3D Printing. I recently shared a slide about how one of my soldiers used what he was learning in college to 3D print a button for a surveillance scout system. We used to wait forever for those to come in or replace whole $16,000 handgrips. Now we have hundreds even in different colors. It can be applied to so much more in maintenance.

Keeping politicians, government beaurocrats, and all lobbyist away from the military, out of the pentagon, and the advancements made by scientists and engineers of this country.

I keep seeing advancements being made with micro-devices that can detect ailments. In my 20-year career, I saw a lot of good men who had mysterious ailments our HM Corpsmen were not able to diagnose. A few of my buddies got discharged due to those ailments, and civilian MD doctors easily made the diagnoses and got those men fixed. I understand we can not put MD doctors in every unit or vessel, but technological advancement is going on, and our HM Corpsmen and Medics could be made a whole lot better.

Really? Sure there are a lot. Just one comes to mind for me.

The ability to disconnect from it.

Why?

Technology has flaws that be fatal. Technology can be manipulated. Every advancement in technology has eventually had a counter technology to gain advantages.

The ability to disconnect from it is the best human action that can be had.

No one, no humankind, has the ability to condition themselves to continue to operate in a code red or heightened mental alert status 24/7/365...for days, weeks, months, years, decades... Rest assured, rest must be taken at some point in time....and... in simple terms...

If your a bad guy with a gun? The good guy with a gun and patience will succeed.

IMHO humankind has not reached its peak. Therefore Technology hasn't had the opportunity to peak either... and we, humankind, are never going to peak.... its in our DNA.

Medical and rehabilitative technologies. They need to decrease death and injuries in the service and increase life-saving and rehabilitative interventions.

Cyber warfare for offense and defense. It seem that's the way our world fights now. We should have a great defense for these type of attacks but I also believe the military could also benefit from a good offense here too. The ability is out there but I feel we are lacking in that area and could improve.