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

The future of technology, both for today's and our future military, rest on the development of AI (artificial intelligence). Humans have the most developed brains on the planet, but to develop and integrate future systems beyond the abilities and defenses of our adversaries, we need to discover how to connect many minds in many diverse disciplines into singular platforms.

It is essential to develop neural networks and networked AI, not just for the warfighter but also in the development of new material, weapons, weapon delivery and communication. We require new ideas for both offensive and defensive platforms. We must develop ways to anticipate, understand, outperform and obviate oppositional systems.

DARPA should be one of our foremost role models. Don’t dismiss an idea because you haven’t thought of it, don’t understand it or can’t see its profit stream. We must eliminate partisan politics, myopia, and the strict focus on profit. We must eliminate the “good ole’ boys club” attitude that the “big boys” will steal from the little guy with impunity. We must eliminate the old way of doing business under the table as often as over.

We can either be the greatest, the most innovative and the most formidable military ever known or we can be the ubiquitous reactive force; never ahead and always playing catch-up.

I spend 4 Years in the Air Force (64-68) and nearly 40 years in the Airline business (69-08). The one thing I learned was to LISTEN to the people that are doing the job on a day-to-day basis and incorporate their suggestions when rolling out changes in the way BUSINESS is done. Folks (Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors) buy in when they are part of the solution!

The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to speed up claims and general processing of requests.

satellite internet. If you want morale for sailors in the sea, fast internet in the middle of nowhere is the best way to go.

3d printing for homes. Im sure that would get a lot of support to create homes for veterans. Service members would be interested to learn how to make one while doing something good for homeless veterans.

cybersecurity and also the veterans should get more money for disabled veteran and healthcare cost 50 dollars low dose aspirin 24 dollars .

the old heads will tell you to go back to the basics. IMO its critical the military stops reinventing the wheel when it comes to things like GPS. By the time the technology gets to the lowest level, it's already obsolete. Try a dagger vs a Garmin.

Military Intelligence is the most vital factor in critical decision making. Vital information is out there. One technology source for gathering this vital information might be extremely helpful for Intelligence Analysts and subsequently those who need this vital information to make those most important decisions. As we have seen repeatedly over the years, failure to "connect-the-dots" has had devastating consequences. One example... 9:11. Another example: I had the privilege of hearing a Board of Intelligence people at the DOD level in 1964 discussing events that led up to the assassination of President Kennedy. Silence happened when I asked if the Secret Service and CIA had coordinated what they knew about Oswald's activities would the assassination been avoided? Facts later were convincing that the sharing of Intelligence information might have prevented the assassination.

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Today's military would most benefit from technologies that decrease risk in human lives. Weapons technologies are reaching a point where differences in quality are negligible. We can look at the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine as an example of this. Russia had a significant advantage in resources available, though the level of that technology is relatively similar to Ukraine's. Given the greater resources available most people would assume (myself included) Russia would have been able to overtake Ukraine relatively quickly. Ukraine has the advantage they are fighting in their own country, and are more invested emotionally, but their resistance has been unprecedented. I think it's reasonable to look at this conflict as a microcosm of what physical warfare (minus nuclear, chemical, etc.) between nations will look like in the present day. A force with significantly greater resources can't, for lack of a better word, steamroll a smaller force anymore. Physical warfare is costly to the militaries and nations both in terms of economics and human lives.
As the world becomes increasingly digital, so will warfare. Most nations depend on cyber technologies to function: communications, finances, asset management, security, infrastructure development, etc. This reliance is only increasing, exponentially. The military that will have the greatest advantage in warfare will be the one that has the most advanced cyber warfare technology. At best, this military would be able to cripple the opposing nation's operations and end a conflict, before risking any lives. At worst, this military would be able to give themselves a significant advantage should physical warfare still be enacted due to interrupting opponents communications, finances, supply lines, and more.
Development in cyber warfare would not only lessen the rick of human lives, but be more cost-effective as well, allowing resources to be redirected elsewhere, ideally improving quality of life for service members and veterans.