The core objective of the HEO concept is straightforward: to give warfighters “cognitive overmatch” on the battlefield, or “the ability to dominate the situation by making informed decisions faster than the opponent,” as SOCOM officials put it. Rather than bestowing US special operations forces with physical advantages through next-generation body armor and exotic weaponry, the future operator will head into battle with technologies designed to boost their situational awareness and relevant decisionmaking to superior levels compared to the adversary.
Read the full story on how the US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces: [https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/](https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/)
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reminds me of Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire
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By Jared Keller
Both defense officials and science-fiction scribes may have envisioned a future of warfare shaped by [brain implants and performing enhancing drugs](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/28/next-frontier-warfighters-might-be-implants-their-brains-pentagon-ready-consequences.html), or a suit of powered armor [straight out of *Starship Troopers*](https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-powered-armor-iron-man-suit/), but according to US Special Operations Command, the next generation of armed conflict will be fought (and, hopefully, won) with a relatively simple concept: the “hyper enabled operator.”
The core objective of the HEO concept is straightforward: to give warfighters “cognitive overmatch” on the battlefield, or “the ability to dominate the situation by making informed decisions faster than the opponent,” as SOCOM officials put it. Rather than bestowing US special operations forces with physical advantages through next-generation body armor and exotic weaponry, the future operator will head into battle with technologies designed to boost their situational awareness and relevant decisionmaking to superior levels compared to the adversary.
Read the full story on how the US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces: [https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/](https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-hyper-enabled-operator/)
Just finished watching a few homelander clips and the first thing I see…
reminds me of Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire