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Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System

13 points by sharpshadow 2y ago

therobot24 2y 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
oaiey 2y ago
sometimes words like "Teams" should be written like a verb... small first character.
- zelphirkalt 2y ago
  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.
- deleted 2y ago
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shiroiushi 2y ago
They're going to use MS Teams for combat operations? That's going to be a disaster.
- piva00 2y ago
  The capitalisation of headlines is making it confusing, it's supposed to mean "teams up with" and not "MS Teams" the product.
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- notepad0x90 2y 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 2y 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 2y ago
It will be interesting to see how Lattice will compete against Palantir Gotham.
BurnGpuBurn 2y ago
Paywalled
mosajjal 2y ago
Bloomberg done goofed up with that capital T in Teams. they "teamed up" with Microsoft. has nothing to do with Microsoft Teams.
aquir 2y ago
These guys are big fan of LoTR! Andúril is the sword of Aragorn, the Flame of the West
- HPsquared 2y ago
  See also Palantir Technologies.
  - repelsteeltje 2y ago
    And the sauron.com domain is still available for a weapon-tech startup.
    - vinibrito 2y ago
      Has to be an object name. Like glamdring.
      - NikkiA 2y ago
        'Eye of Sauron' would probably work as a 'Gorgon Stare' successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
TOMDM 2y ago
https://archive.md/aeDN0 https://archive.md/aeDN0
repelsteeltje 2y 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...
- notepad0x90 2y ago
  why would the order volume make the supply chain more difficult to protect?
  - repelsteeltje 2y 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 2y ago
Headlines Register Prone To Garden Path Sentences
notepad0x90 2y 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 2y 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-forces-soldiers https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...
  - polotics 2y 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 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.
  - notepad0x90 2y 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.
  - 2y ago

13 points by sharpshadow 2y 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

oaiey 2y ago

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

zelphirkalt 2y ago
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.
deleted 2y ago
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shiroiushi 2y ago

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

piva00 2y ago
The capitalisation of headlines is making it confusing, it's supposed to mean "teams up with" and not "MS Teams" the product.
deleted 2y ago
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notepad0x90 2y 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 2y 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 2y ago

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

BurnGpuBurn 2y ago

Paywalled

mosajjal 2y ago

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

aquir 2y ago

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

HPsquared 2y ago
See also Palantir Technologies.
- repelsteeltje 2y ago
  And the sauron.com domain is still available for a weapon-tech startup.
  - vinibrito 2y ago
    Has to be an object name. Like glamdring.
    - NikkiA 2y ago
      'Eye of Sauron' would probably work as a 'Gorgon Stare' successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

TOMDM 2y ago

https://archive.md/aeDN0 https://archive.md/aeDN0

repelsteeltje 2y 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...

notepad0x90 2y ago
why would the order volume make the supply chain more difficult to protect?
- repelsteeltje 2y 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 2y ago

Headlines Register Prone To Garden Path Sentences

notepad0x90 2y 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 2y 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-forces-soldiers https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...
- polotics 2y 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 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.
- notepad0x90 2y 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.
- 2y ago