Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors

An anonymous reader writes "U.S. military researchers are asking industry for ideas on a futuristic uniform for Special Operations warfighters that involves agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors, communications radios and antennas, signal processors, wearable displays, and health-monitoring systems. Among the technologies Special Operations Command officials are interested in most (PDF) are advanced armor to protect warfighters from bullets, shrapnel, and other battlefield threats, while preserving their mobility. The suit also may involve powered or unpowered robotic exoskeletons to improve warfighter performance and endurance, while enabling the warfighter to operate silently and unseen."

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Wanted: Stop wasting my money

[TheCarp]

Seriously, stop playing Team America World Police. Stop getting into so many wars and taking so many actions, cut the military....in half or more; and spend a good bit of that money on education here, and developing the technology to colonize space. If you INSIST on making it about war, can't we pretend the next force that will need to be mobilized is on the moon or mars?