An ultra-durable compound created by Voltage Vessels, a Maui-based company, using fibers of volcanic rock is being tested in 3D-printed drones at the Rim of the Pacific exercise in Hawaii.
Project Flytrap 5.0, a U.S. Army V Corps counter-unmanned aerial systems initiative including British partner forces, integrated and tested more than 50 industry-provided technologies to fight and defeat the low-cost drones reshaping the modern battlefield.
The little case solves multiple problems paratroopers tasked with drone responsibilities face going into combat or a training environment.
The War Department has moved two agencies critical to getting American-made combat gear into the hands of allied and partner nations under the department's Office of Acquisition and Sustainment.