FW: More modern stuff

Found this on the Command Decision list...

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kevin Rolfs
Sent:	Monday, January 24, 2000 11:24 AM
To:	cdmailer@primenet.com
Subject:	Re: More modern stuff

John K. Sramek,
You wanted more modern stuff:

Federal Computer Week 1/10/00 p18-30 (specificaly p26-30) "The Shape
of Things to Come" article "Soldier 2025"
The Army Soldier Systems Center at Natick, Mass.  (along w/ MIT, NASA,
National Protection Center of the Institute for Justice, etc) have
developed
a new prototype smart textile uniform suit code named "Starship Trooper"
that is a multilayered intelligent skin suit that protects soldier from 
chemical
and biological threats. The outfit is capable of changing color
automatically 
to make it harder to by blinding in based on background (chameleon
ability) as 
well as reduce the IR siginature of the individual. Additionally the
suit 
serves as an antenna for high-data-rate radios and data-feeds to a Darth
Vader 
like helemet which is able to project images inside visior with a 360
degree 
vision as well as 3-D display of the battlefield showing location of
friendly 
as well as known enemy units or disturbances. The suit can operate in a
passive 
mode where it receives dta from a constillation of 100+ Global
Positioning 
System/Meteorological Low-Earth Orbiting satellites will provide more
than 4000 
global soundings of the terrain, climatic state each hour giving
accurate 
weather forcasting. The helemt has a high-powered micro-processor
(processing 
at speeds on scale of human brain which is 10 quadrillion <10,000
trillion> 
 instructions per second; current super computers process at 1 trillion 
instructions per second) that provides numerious functions such as
stereoscopic 
enhanced hearing system, curvided wide-angle visor display, helmet
sensors such 
as rear viewing minicamera, process data from fabric- embedded sensors
and 
transceivers (smaller than a "period" capable of transmitting info
wirelessly 
at rates of 20 megabits/sec or greater; 13 times faster than existing
T-1 
Internet connection) used for data retrieval/sending at 155
megabits/sec.
The suit also contains minature sensors that can pick-up and amplify
sound of 
enemy hundreds of yards distant. The helmet visor showes the soldier the

infrared image (heads up like Digital Thermal System that provides
heads-up 
display remote sensing showing spectral imaging of living/moving targets
beyond 
reduced LOS from environmental/climatic/artificial effects) or activity
link to 
a stealth UAV ("Aquila", "Outrider" - USMC, "Darkstar", "Cypher" - Army
Fort 
Benning, CA hovering donut 70 knts, 8000' alt, "Pathfinder" (ERAST) -
15mph, 
100K alt several months duration flight, "Centurion") orbiting the
battlefield 
via the fiber-optic network woven into the multilayered uniiform "skin"
which 
the individual can send on command to sweep the detected position using
it's 
camera to sweep the distant treeline and quickly pin-point the enemies
location 
and providing the coordinates with GPS of enemy so the soldier is
displayed in 
his helmet the targets he then dispatches from firing his 15mm smart
munitions 
using micro-electronic/sensors that hit at 100% (remember the movie
"Runaway" 
with Tom Seleck).
Suddenly the soldier is alerted by suit alarm of incoming artillery that
enables
him to duck into cover reacting faster than a normal man because of his
chip
patch
(controls transdermal neutrient/drug delivery system that injects
minuate
amounts
of performance inducing or stress reducing nutrients/drugs as needed)
but not
fully
escaping fragment hits that the suit instantly senses from embeded
sensors that
the
contanied soldier damage after being analyzed and assessed, alerts
nearby 
medics
of his state and situation/position. The wounds are sealed off by the
suit and
via
the chip patch the soldier is put into a reduced state. In-coming enemy
that 
are
detected, are warned to the soldier as is his best escape route or
position for
ambusing are displayed to him but alas our soldier is down and out. Upon
being
found and the suit is removed by the enemy, it useless since the voice
recognition
and personnel signature of the wearer renders it inactive when the
wearer is 
not
contained; the soldiers weapon likewise will not operate since signature
is not
the
weilder. At that moment the troops arrive capturing the enemy and
rescuing 
their
downed commrade again since the suit had sent out his position and
deactivation 
code.
* kev rolfs

"John K. Sramek" wrote:
>
> Please post more modern ideas, everyone!
>
> John