Navy Corps Combatant Needs & Requirements Mr. Al Hanneman, Navy, ONR   This was basically about what i would call 'telepresent' or networked-haptic-feeback applications for underwater operations. Mr. Hanneman wants sailors in submarines to be able to operate extrenal robotic devices with great accuracy ande delicacy - for handling, say, nuclear missiles... Most poignantly, as his last slide, he showed a picture (to general amused agreement) of the exoskeleton worn by Sigourney Weaver in the film "Aliens" The consensus seems to be that this was like the future but much too bulky Marine Corps Combatant Needs & Requirements Maj. Albert K. Dixon, III, MCSC Maj. Dixon's message to the conference was that the future of war is in the Urban Terrain. MOUT - military operations in the urban terrain - is the main area of future concern. He cited Mogadishu, Grozny, and Northern Ireland as examples. Interestingly, there was a lot of talk about British Army experience and expertise in MOUT, gained through the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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