Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/microsoft-teams-with-startup-anduril-on-army-combat-goggle-system

by sharpshadow • 2 years ago

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oaiey• 2 years ago

sometimes words like "Teams" should be written like a verb... small first character.

I agree. From the heading alone, I thought: "Cannot recommend that piece of ... on your army goggles. This can only end in disaster."

But actually "teams" with small letter might also end in a disaster.

shiroiushi• 2 years ago

They're going to use MS Teams for combat operations? That's going to be a disaster.

piva00• 2 years ago

The capitalisation of headlines is making it confusing, it's supposed to mean "teams up with" and not "MS Teams" the product.

notepad0x904• 2 years ago

Everyone knows a passive-aggressive "thumbs up" is a good psychological warfare technique. /s

But the title just has bad capitalization as a sibling commenter noted.

drcongo• 2 years ago

It took me so long to parse this headline. Bloomberg's weird capitalisation in headlines constantly trips me up, must be even harder for non-native English speakers.

robertkoss• 2 years ago

It will be interesting to see how Lattice will compete against Palantir Gotham.

BurnGpuBurn• 2 years ago

Paywalled

aquir• 2 years ago

These guys are big fan of LoTR! Andúril is the sword of Aragorn, the Flame of the West

HPsquared• 2 years ago

See also Palantir Technologies.

repelsteeltje3• 2 years ago

And the sauron.com domain is still available for a weapon-tech startup.

TOMDM• 2 years ago

https://archive.md/aeDN0

mosajjal• 2 years ago

Bloomberg done goofed up with that capital T in Teams. they "teamed up" with Microsoft. has nothing to do with Microsoft Teams.

repelsteeltje3• 2 years ago

The Army may order as many as 121,000 of the devices contingent on a series of tests.

Wow! That will be a seriously large supply chain to protect...

notepad0x904• 2 years ago

why would the order volume make the supply chain more difficult to protect?

repelsteeltje3• 2 years ago

I imagine such a high volume will be produced in multiple batches over a longer period with parts sourced and assembled through different supply chains. Each link in each supply chain is potentially open to malice akin the recent Hezbollah pager and walkie attacks.

deruta• 2 years ago

Headlines Register Prone To Garden Path Sentences

notepad0x904• 2 years ago

I can't help but feel like the pentagon/DoD keeps making strategic mistakes with their focus on complex and expensive options. For example, the xbox controller is more successful in submarines and other military applications than costly and more complex custom solutions.

Further more, looking at history and modern warfare as is being demonstrated in Ukraine, things that you can sustainably manufacture at large scale without crippling your economy seem to be ideal. Things like cheap but deadly drones, lighter combat gear/pack,etc.. reliance on technology seems to be a liability at times.

I'm just being an arm-chair critic, but wouldn't it be better to let robots and drones do their own thing, while humans also be prepared to face off the enemy without relying on fancy tech? Imagine having to re-orient yourself in the middle of battle because your goggle crashed or ran out of battery or the enemy managed to hack the goggle and disorient your people.

sharpshadow• 2 years ago

Show the drones which can do what missles can do. Recently the whole drone academy including foreign instructors have been blown away in Ukraine with two missles.[0]

0. https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...

polotics• 2 years ago

As the official count of victims is 58, and your source on substack says 760, if you got more precise and reliably sourced information you should update the Wikipedia page for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike

Ok in the meantime I looked at your source website, it's full of vaccine scaremongering and assorted trolling.

notepad0x904• 2 years ago

missiles are expensive, drones are cheap. America's ability to manufacture a ton of tanks and planes won WW2. With opponents like China in play, volume and economic stability matter than concentrated firepower and technological superiority.

tgsovlerkhgsel• 2 years ago

And more recently a huge ammo dump was turned into a giant mushroom cloud with (presumably) drones.

therobot24• 2 years ago

IVAS is still too clunky and not worth the ROI to get that level of funding, expect it to get canceled unless congress greatly increases the Defense budget or changes acquisition practices

Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System

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