This month, the soldiers of the 11th Airborne Division are engaging in the annual Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Exercise or JPMRC. One of the key elements of the exercise involves technology adaptations for the arctic environment.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - This month, the soldiers of the 11th Airborne Division are engaging in the annual Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Exercise or“We evaluate new technologies and figure out how they solve Arctic problems for our Arctic soldiers here with the 11th Airborne Division,” said Lt.
Col. Pearl Christensen, 11th Airborne Division Director of Innovations, about the exercise.“While we are assigned to Alaska And we have to operate and learn how to fight in the awesome cold, we also have to be able to take the same technology across any mission we have throughout the INDOPACOM theater,” Christensen said.just 15 miles southeast of Fairbanks. During the exercise, troops and the equipment they use are exposed to double-digit subzero temperatures. This can lead to many challenges as newer technologies aren’t always designed with extreme cold as a consideration. “We specifically work with Army research laboratory partners like DevCom and Krill, to identify certain problems that we’ve looked at in the past,” Christensen explained. Since some technologies commonly used by soldiers in warmer climates may not work in the arctic, “we work with the Army laboratories to look for those new solutions or new technologies that might help us solve those problems and still accomplish our mission,” she said. One such technology includes unmanned aerial systems, also called UAS. These are comprised of both rotator and fixed wing drones. “We have identified some problem areas where UASs might not necessarily work as effectively in the super cold as they do in regular temperatures,” Christensen said. “So, we are integrating significantly more UAS and identifying those problem sets during JPMRC this year than we have in the past.” As soldiers use both newer and older technology during the exercise, they’ll gain insights that will help them provide feedback to Christensen and others that will be used to evaluate efficacy and determine what changes may be needed or even if a certain piece of equipment should be replaced.“It’s about identifying the good, it’s about identifying the bad and it’s about fixing those to make sure that we have a piece of equipment that will work for the service member and the soldier,” she said."I hope we can take that learning and change it to something positive into the future."Not guilty plea entered for Fairbanks man accused of killing grandmotherMan arrested after killing 18-year-old woman he met on social media dating site, police sayCoast Guard National Security ship docks in Juneau before Bering Sea fisheries mission
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