AUSTIN (10/three/2024) – Innovation and rising know-how highlighted the highest Nationwide Guard officer's go to to Texas March 9-10.
Military Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the Nationwide Guard Bureau, met with the Texas Military Nationwide Guard and joined the 2024 South by Southwest Convention, the place he spoke with entrepreneurs, small enterprise homeowners and innovators about new ideas that would profit the Guard and Joint Drive.
When Hokanson took the helm as CNGB in 2020, he outlined his priorities for the Guard: folks, coaching, modernization and reform. The synergy between trade, academia, enterprise capital and repair members brainstorming methods to include new applied sciences and concepts into army purposes at SXSW is exceptional, he stated.
“The army has at all times been a power for innovation,” Hokanson stated throughout a hearth dialogue at Austin's Capital Manufacturing facility. “Because the tempo of technological change accelerates, we should proceed to discover distinctive concepts and foster new partnerships to make sure our potential to guard our nation and assist native communities in instances of emergency.”
Hokanson met with guardsmen who’re assigned to the Protection Innovation Unit — a Protection Division group to assist the U.S. army shortly use rising business applied sciences. With workplaces in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Chicago and contained in the Pentagon, DIU is the division's gateway to main know-how corporations throughout the nation.
“I applaud the important work DIU is doing to kind partnerships that assist join the Division of Protection with civilian corporations and entrepreneurs who can present new concepts and options,” the overall stated.
He additionally spoke to guardsmen with ARCWERX – the Air Reserve Element's model of AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Division of the Air Drive.
“Locations like SXSW are what we name clusters of creativity,” stated Air Drive Lt. Col. Hans Jagow, director and co-founder of ARCWERX and a member of the Alaska Guard. “At occasions like this, concepts broaden to new ranges when mixed with different modern and inventive pondering. What comes out of SXSW are new options and new advances in DOD capabilities.”
Each Nationwide Guard within the 50 states, three territories and Washington, DC has innovation initiatives. ARCWERX serves as the center of innovation for Guard, supporting the innovation ecosystem via training, connection to associate assets, and inner assets.
“Supporting and inspiring peacetime innovation strengthens future wartime operations by fostering a tradition of innovation mandatory for future wartime agility,” Jagow stated.
Hokanson visited Camp Mabry in Austin and Camp Swift in close by Bastrop to speak with Texas Guards through the train. He additionally noticed the revolutionary 3D-built barracks of the Texas Navy Division – a product of the innovation sorts born at SXSW.
“We 3D printed the primary barracks within the US Military,” Hokanson stated. “These constructions had been in-built half the time, at two-thirds the price of earlier building tasks, utilizing conventional supplies.”
The CNGB loved the aesthetics and practicality of the barracks construction, accomplished in 2021 – then the biggest 3D printed construction in North America. The three,800+ sq. foot constructing can home as much as 72 troopers whereas coaching for missions in Texas or abroad.
These constructions are designed to be constructed sooner and last more than conventional buildings. The Texas Navy Division is at the moment constructing the same 3D printed coaching middle at its Camp Mabry headquarters. The Texas Military Nationwide Guard supported this undertaking with manpower and engineering items to pour the inspiration slabs.
Comparable larger-scale building tasks have emerged, because the DOD will quickly open three 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss.
Again at Capital Manufacturing facility's Joint Protection Innovation Workspace, Hokanson noticed different modern ideas, together with a platform that connects service member experience to protection wants, robotic automation, eye-scanning psychological well being screening and power-transformation applied sciences.
“To me, innovation isn’t just about know-how and growing new issues,” Hokanson stated. “They ask, 'How may we do what we do higher and extra effectively?' Generally there isn’t a materials answer. It's a course of answer.”
The CNGB encourages wardens throughout the nation to submit new concepts that would make the group higher. Final December, the Nationwide Guard Bureau held an innovation problem to showcase the creative prowess of Guard members. NGB plans to arrange innovation competitions each six months.
“When you're a person or an organization and also you suppose you might need an thought or a bit of know-how that would assist make our Nationwide Guard higher and extra succesful, we need to hear from you,” Hokanson stated. “Contact your state's Joint Nationwide Guard Headquarters or ARCWERX instantly to start the method.
“The Guard has needed to innovate for practically 400 years to remain related and supply our nation with what it calls for,” he stated. “And we are able to't cease.”
Date taken: | 03.12.2024 |
Date of posting: | 03.12.2024 18:40 |
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Location: | AUSTIN, TX, USA |
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