The US Army Could Use a Weapon With Facial-Recognition

The U.S Army is interested in contracting developers for a five-year period in order to make a weapon with facial recognition.

According to Military.com, defense firms that want to design and build the new machine would need to meet some specific requirements.

Among those are advanced camera-based capabilities such as automatic target recognition, target tracking, and facial recognition. In theory, this should prevent soldiers from shooting the wrong target and make them more effective and precise in combat.

Other capabilities the Army would like to the new weapon to have are adjusted aiming point that considers range to target, atmospheric conditions, not to mention a wireless communication system. This would enable the smart weapon to transmit fire control data such as ballistic solution, and temperature. These specs should be available for both semi and fully automatic rifles.

Companies have until November 4th to illustrate their plan to elaborate the two high tech weapon versions: rifle and automatic.

Then, each prototype will undergo a 14-month evaluation period that includes technical testing and user evaluations known as soldier touch points, Military.com noted.

It remains to be seen how the new technologies will be integrated into military campaigns, how these weapons will be developed and by who.