{"id":24308,"date":"2018-07-16T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/16\/top-10-takeaways-for-the-future-of-army-installations-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:05:37","slug":"top-10-takeaways-for-the-future-of-army-installations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2018\/07\/16\/top-10-takeaways-for-the-future-of-army-installations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 takeaways for the future of Army installations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Army looks to how cities fit into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2017\/07\/30\/future-infantry-might-not-need-humans\/\" target=_blank>future battlefield<\/a> and recently announced the location of its Futures Command in Austin, Texas, researchers are also looking to existing smart cities to help improve current and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2017\/10\/10\/the-army-must-better-protect-installations-from-enemy-sabotage-leaders-say\/\" target=_blank>future installations<\/a>, protecting them as they become part of the long tail of warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home base, be it Fort Riley, Kansas or Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, are no longer removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2016\/11\/23\/your-science-fiction-ideas-could-shape-the-future-of-the-army\/\" target=_blank>war front<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor the very first time our installations are part of the battlespace,\u201d said Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations Richard Kidd. \u201cInstallations are no longer sanctuaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2017\/07\/26\/warfighters-will-be-machines-in-concept-of-future-battlefield\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635973938373823205-635796jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Warfighters will be machines in concept of future battlefield<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The future battlefield will likely contain autonomous robots, lasers and countless drones but beyond the equipment that grabs everyone\u2019s attention at least one military leader says a framework for how to fight in that new arena is what\u2019s most important.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kidd pointed to a recent event in which soldiers based in South Korea received false orders that looked like official documents. Episodes over the past year showed potential access to troops&#8217; fitness tracker devices by outside actors to track individual and unit movements in and around bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To meet the combined threats to installations and leverage ways in which new technologies can advance readiness, the U.S. Army\u2019s Training and Doctrine Command recently focused its \u201cMad Scientist\u201d initiative efforts with a look at installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the top 10 takeaways from the June event, originally posted on the TRADOC G-2 Mad Scientist Initiative<a href=\"http:\/\/madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil\/64-top-ten-takeaways-from-the-installations-of-the-future-conference\/\" target=_blank> website<\/a>, held at the Georgia Technology Research Institute, commonly know as Georgia Tech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>1. Threats and tensions<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a \u201ctension between openness and security\u201d with the hyper-connectivity that smart cities and installations achieve through connected devices. The connectivity allows adversaries to target installations and \u201cvirtually project power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some examples included personalized warfare, using personal information such as family data online, genome-specific attacks and \u201cdeepfake\u201d tactics such as superimposing images or altering words spoken in publicly recorded addresses by leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>2. Exclusion vs. inclusion<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Access to installations balances itself on protecting the people and materiel at a military installation by also keeping a flow of personnel and ideas, such as business and academic partnerships, and moving on and off both the virtual and physical installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>3. Infrastructure sensorization<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More sensors mean more risk for exploitation of the information that sensors collect. Commanders can hold table-top exercises to help build robust infrastructures that both allow for sensors to be used but also protect the networks that connect with sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>4. Army modernization challenge<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Army attempts to modernize its equipment and training, it also has to maintain still-in-use legacy platforms and models. The same is true of installations, many of them decades or even a century old. The TRADOC initiative looks to public-private partnerships to modernize installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>5. Technology is outpacing regulations and policy<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensors and analytics can improve security but also raise questions about privacy. Think security cameras and traffic cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers with the TRADOC initiative have studied an ongoing drone support concept being used in Louisville, Kentucky to help detect gunshots as one way sensors and analytics combined can improve safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>6. Synthetic training environment<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Future installations will see fewer \u201cbrick and mortar\u201d buildings and more virtual environments, especially for training. Training areas, confined by cost, and space and time for usage, are increasingly seen as starting first in the virtual world, especially with improving gaming, virtual reality and augmented reality capabilities coming online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>7. Security technologies<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech oriented toward security, from drones to facial recognition and even artificial intelligence, will fuse information and improved Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities used in the field and overseas. Researchers noted that China leads the world in this arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>8. Virtual prototyping<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using virtual systems in a computational test bed to assess new equipment and systems through trials is a way in which the Army\u2019s Engineer Research and Development Center is measuring and planning for future, long-term Army advancements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of those items being explored include: force projection, resilient installations working with community partners, warfighter readiness and cost effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>9. Standard approach to smart installations<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army leaders want to develop a \u201ccommon suite of tools\u201d to integrate smart tech into installations. Researchers noted that a method to rapidly pilot prototypes to help leaders decide whether and how to scale technologies across Army installations is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>10. Low-hanging fruit<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leveraging early 5G infrastructure at installations with community, academic and industry partnerships can help Army leaders better identify fixes that are readily available to existing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Training and Doctrine Command&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Scientist&#8221; initiative focused on virtual reality training, cyber attacks, sensors and 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