{"id":114604,"date":"2020-10-17T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/soldiers-become-another-node-in-dods-internet-of-things-envg-b"},"modified":"2020-10-17T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:24:13","slug":"soldiers-become-another-node-in-dods-internet-of-things-envg-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/soldiers-become-another-node-in-dods-internet-of-things-envg-b","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers Become Another Node In DoD\u2019s Internet Of Things: ENVG-B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soldiers-become-another-node-in-dods-internet-of-things-envg-b2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article on the soldiers of the very near future. This is when Internet of Things is used for military purposes allowing better situational awareness.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ENVG-B is still being fielded across the force, but the Army is already developing a next-gen system, a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2020\/10\/from-frankengoggle-to-battle-ready-army-ivas\/\">augmented reality targeting goggles<\/a> \u2014 a militarized Microsoft HoloLens \u2014 known as <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/integrated-visual-augmentation-system\/\">IVAS<\/a>. The Army\u2019s also developing an <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2019\/08\/wearing-the-network-to-war\/\">Adaptive Squad Architecture<\/a> to ensure all the different technologies going on a soldier\u2019s body are compatible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cENVG-B is a system of systems,\u201d Lynn Bollengier of L3Harris Technologies said at this week\u2019s annual Association of the US Army conference. These systems include integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2018\/03\/guns-drones-augmented-reality-army-seeks-infantry-revolution\/\">augmented reality aspects<\/a> from the Nett Warrior tablet, as well as wireless interconnectivity with weapon sights.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, that means a soldier wearing the ENVG-B can look through their binoculars, turn on the camera in their rifle\u2019s sight, and point that sight around a corner to see and shoot, without exposing anything more than their hands or the rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article on the soldiers of the very near future. This is when Internet of Things is used for military purposes allowing better situational awareness. ENVG-B is still being fielded across the force, but the Army is already developing a next-gen system, a set of augmented reality targeting goggles \u2014 a militarized Microsoft HoloLens \u2014 known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,418,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-internet","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}