{"id":260259,"date":"2026-05-31T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/us-army-tearing-down-old-tech-walls-so-weapons-can-talk-to-each-other\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:15:11","slug":"us-army-tearing-down-old-tech-walls-so-weapons-can-talk-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/us-army-tearing-down-old-tech-walls-so-weapons-can-talk-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Tearing Down Old Tech Walls so Weapons Can Talk to Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-army-tearing-down-tech-walls-weapons-talk-each-other-2026-5\">US Army Tearing Down Old Tech Walls so Weapons Can Talk to Each Other<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-army-tearing-down-tech-walls-weapons-talk-each-other-2026-5\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-army-tearing-down-tech-walls-weapons-talk-each-other-2026-5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 08:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.businessinsider.com\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US Army leaders are trying to break down the decades-old technology barriers that have kept weapons, sensors, and command systems from easily sharing information, a critical step as the service pushes to make battlefield decisions faster.<\/p>\n<p>A recent exercise, the Project Jailbreak hackathon, brought top defense companies and the Army together to connect<strong> <\/strong>counter-drone systems, air and missile defenses, command systems, drones and uncrewed systems, and other weapons, getting these disparate systems speaking the same language.<\/p>\n<p>Updates were made and are already being pushed out to soldiers, including those deployed in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re not a technologist, think about your daily life. Imagine if every accessory you have \u2014 light bulbs, toaster, TVs \u2014 had a different way to connect,&#8221; Alex Miller, the Army&#8217;s chief technology officer, told reporters on Thursday. Imagine &#8220;your toaster didn&#8217;t plug into the outlet,&#8221; he said, and &#8220;you had to find a special adapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That condition is what the Army&#8217;s dealt with for decades, forcing soldiers to be what Miller described as the &#8220;integration point&#8221; between different systems, &#8220;which does not scale well if you are cold, tired, wet, and hungry operating on 20-hour days.&#8221; Troops would have to manually input data for battlefield decision-making, spending more time going back and forth between all the different systems.<\/p>\n<p>That slows the decision-making process when speed matters.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"lazy-image \" encoding=\"UTF-8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs=\"{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a19d5b2b4fb977f35981d95\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"aspectRatioW\":4416,\"aspectRatioH\":2944}}\" alt=\"US soldiers stand in grasslands.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><\/p>\n<p>                            Updates from the event have already been pushed forward, with more to come in the coming 30 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\" itemprop=\"creditText\"><\/p>\n<p>                    US Army photo by Spc&#8230;.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-army-tearing-down-tech-walls-weapons-talk-each-other-2026-5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Tearing Down Old Tech Walls so Weapons Can Talk to Each Other https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-army-tearing-down-tech-walls-weapons-talk-each-other-2026-5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a19d6762e5a80cfe0500e39?width=1200&format=jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260263,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260259\/revisions\/260263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}