NEW SOLDIER SUITS SIMPLIFIED

“The Army is dras­ti­cally sim­pli­fy­ing the makeup of its high-​​tech sol­dier ensem­ble, the Land Warrior, in an effort to make the sys­tem less prone to fail­ures and eas­ier to use,” National Defense reports.
“After the last ver­sion of Land Warrior failed reli­a­bil­ity tests ear­lier this year, the Army switched gears and decided to make the sys­tem less com­plex and mod­ify the hard­ware to make it com­pat­i­ble with the new [and con­tro­ver­sial] Stryker infantry vehi­cle. The so-​​called Land Warrior Stryker Interoperable (LWSI) is sched­uled to be com­pleted by 2006…
“The LW SI will have a sin­gle proces­sor. The pre­vi­ous LW had a dual proces­sor, which fre­quently mal­func­tioned. Other changes include a more sim­pli­fied data bus and a Linux-​​based oper­at­ing sys­tem, as opposed to Windows. ‘Evidence shows that Linux is more sta­ble. We are mov­ing in gen­eral to where the Army is going, to Linux-​​based OS,’” says the program’s man­ager, Lt. Col. Dave Gallop.

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