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

VA hearing aids don't help much. How about providing Cochlear for those of us who still can't hear?

I am against war & the needless loss of life. As advanced as technology is today, using AI robots to send into hot zones would be sensible. This would reduce deaths, physical injuries, mental trauma, & high cost of care for the survivors. Money that could instead be used for Homeless Veterans, or other Veterans in need.

Right now, this day, I would like to see the use of the best Technology to Zero in on Putin and end his life for the dumb ass use of outdated equipment, laggardly lead and trained idiots and murderers in the assault on Ukraine! Russia's days are numbered, and we must prepare personally and nationally for the possible use of nuclear weapons by this asshole. We should preempt him with the best and current Nonnuclear technology we have now. Place a Bounty on his head to be paid upon verifiable proof of his death and have it voted on by the Senate and House. Pay the collector of the Bounty in dollars vice Rubles to ensure fuller participation in the removal of this Idiot.

Hi-tec is good, many plus points, but when it goes down there always needs to be a plan B. I have been there, during war when hi-tec failed. Lucky I was old school and had plan "B" ready. We were able to complete the mission. I believe too much focus is put on soldiers depending on hi-tec and not enough on causing situations where soldiers have to think. Many moons ago as a 12B squad leader I was issued a pocket calculator to assist in doing demo calculations, but when it came time to take the SQT (dating myself), was not allowed. I had to prove I could do all the demo formulas by hand.

Non-weapons technology would be the best investment we could hope for. Medical, farming, education services, etc... If we could perfect those technologies and share them with the rest of the world, the only threats left to us would be ideological and easily squashed with international pressure as long as the rest of the world was benefitting from our benevolent technologies.

Non-weapons technology would be the best investment we could hope for. Medical, farming, education services, etc... If we could perfect those technologies and share them with the rest of the world, the only threats left to us would be ideological and easily squashed with international pressure as long as the rest of the world was benefitting from our benevolent technologies.

I am twisting the question a little bit, because these are thing that have happened, but my thoughts are still in the spirit of the question.
- Real-time battlefield communications/imagery has hurt the NCO corps and small-unit leadership in general. When senior officers in command centers became able to witness combat actions firsthand, many are unable to resist the temptation of trying to control actions at the tactical level. The technology is good, but the change agent is needed for the users.
- Upgrading from manual transmissions to automatic; I think is bad technology. The advantages of a manual transmission are great, but the "ease" of automatic transmissions for the vehicle operator removes a training competency that disadvantages the operator and maintenance personnel in the long run.
+ LED technology. LED lighting capability is lightweight, low temperature, and versatile as all get out.
While LED is not the "breakthrough technology", I think back to flat-screen televisions and the great advantages they afforded for small spaces. Particularly on submarines (and ships), flat-screen televisions benefitted Sailors immeasurably.
+ Medical advances. The development of Lifesaving equipment, supplies, and know-how has revolutionized medical trauma actions in the field and in the hospital. The development of prosthetics and other durable medical equipment has also provided the wounded with better quality of life opportunities (though I acknowledge this is not the ideal outcome).

There have been so many amazing improvements I have witnessed over the past 30 years of service. Nearly every aspect of the military has been blessed with some new technology. Thermal imagery, seeing through walls, GPS, the smartphone, improved combat headgear, improved uniforms and personal protective equipment (PPE), potable water delivery systems, electrical power generation, batteries, cameras, the list goes on and on.
Finally...in World War II, the members of the United States Armed Forces were the best fed, most regarded persons of the war. Simply look at the quality of life on board submarines, no one had it better than the U.S.
Although this is much more to identify and discuss, that is it for today.

Honestly, I think it would benefit for our military to go back to the basic. If we stop depending on so much technology that now it makes are military soft in a way. I remember when I was in basic training and getting smoked for doing something wrong, but now that doesn't exist. I am not against advancements in research and technology, but it is not the answer to everything.

U.S. healthcare system has always been plagued by different issues in which its main contributors were: cost, access, quality, fair reimbursement and increase efficiency to create a better care outcome (Goldsteen, Goldsteen, & Goldsteen, 2019). Affordable Care Act was enacted assuming to help with the inundated health care system and include reducing fraud waste and abuse. Within this current health care law, the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) propagated a $37 billion dollars incentive payment for Electronic Health Records and dubbed it Meaningful Use (Sanhi, Huckman, Chigurupat, & David, 2017).
The adaptation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) through the incentive program of Meaningful Use promised to set forth numerous benefits such as decreased cost, better care, and better quality. The incentive program requires minimum standards to replace paper records with the current electronic systems. This provides opportunities for both practice and software makers. The lack of comprehensive functionality and guideline process through regulations of Meaningful Use created the most expensive and consequential risks of fraud, waste, and abuse (Brown, Pasupathy, Patrick, & Timothy 2019). Its poor construction has not only jeopardized the integrity of the information it requires to uphold. But in heavy consequences, opened the pandora box to those with the pure intention of “self-benefit” and leave the consequences to those who will have to bear the risks.
In 2012 the number of Health Information Technology (HIT) vendors boomed resulting in the poor implementation of the technology system. Instead of approaching EHR as a transformational tool, it was subjected to mere technical issues to allow clinicians to document, code, and bill. The $37 billion dollars initiative’s lack of implementation in its infrastructure and functionality remains in need to be addressed to include its promise to set forth the decrease in cost, better care, and increase quality care outcome (Sanhi, et. al., 2017). EHR will require to be embedded in the process of health service and delivery of care with continuous evaluation, modification, and implementation to have the capability to support in transformational process (Brown, et al., 2019).
Health care administrators have prioritized their process for technology use and quality improvement through the means of billing, coding, claims to monitor, and error checking (Brown, et al., 2019). Clinicians remain beleaguered in trying to abide by its administrative burden and provide care for their patients. EHR has indicated a wrong pretense in improving its quality through the means of increasing reimbursement and cutting administrative costs. The dysfunctionality of the EHR has interfered with the workflow process, data integrity, lack of quality control, and increase in overhead costs.
Our nation has been slow to adopt a solution to our inundated healthcare system; it is not simply because we lack the technology as other nation does, nor do we spend less on our healthcare system. Our health care system suffers due to political debate over the healthcare legislature (Schneider, & Squires, 2017). And our healthcare laws and or reform have always been muddled with political agenda (Goldsteen, et. al., 2019). Instead of observing the whole picture, political ideology always tended to say that something is “better” than the other simply because to address the surface of the issue and or it is more beneficial for one pool of the population. Our government never really fully looked at the whole picture to see if the law and or policy will resolve into heavy consequences or grievances on others. As long as the political agenda takes priority, policymakers will only address the current obvious issue and will not treat the whole healthcare problem as different parts that are mutually codependent with each other (Goldsteen, et. al., 2019). To improve healthcare delivery, changes must be all-embracing by all participants of healthcare; by the consumers, policymakers, and the healthcare providers to completely resolve the problem.
The U.S. healthcare system is plagued by different issues in which the main contributors are cost, quality, and access to care. Healthcare without quality measures clearly is not a means to create an efficient and effective medical system. In which medical provision with a lack of observation and accountability for adequate quality can incur high costs without necessarily improving care (Marjoua & Bozic, 2012). The uniqueness and complexity of our healthcare system do create several multilayered issues. However, imagine such a healthcare system that allows data information to be disseminated freely and safely. Such linked platforms will allow for the elimination of data redundancy and produce an effective and efficient healthcare outcome. Healthcare organizations will now become a giant industry in which they can accommodate any treatment and care in multiple facilities that are interconnected. Cost, quality, and access to care will then no longer be an issue within our healthcare system nor a control within political agendas.

References:

Health Informatics: A System Perspective by Brown, Gordon D., Pasupathy, Kalyan S., Patrick, Timothy
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Sahni, N. R., Huckman, R. S., Chigurupati, A., & Cutler, D. M. (2017). The IT transformation health care needs. Harvard Business Review, 95(6), 128.
Schneider, E. C., & Squires, D. (2017). From last to first - could the U.S. health care system
become the best in the “world?” The New England Journal of Medicine, 377(10), 901.

Virtual reality metaverse simulations especially for team technical ops. USAF already using VR simulations.