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Establishing a SORD-Training Company for Standards, Training, and Doctrine

ARSOF requires a dedicated institutional organization to develop, standardize, and sustain robotics training, doctrine, experimentation, and Special Operations Robotics Detachment (SORD) support. Currently, these functions are scattered across schools, MOS pipelines, ad hoc initiatives, and unit-level efforts. Each group builds SORD capabilities independently with its own standard and its own assumptions, which means the force has many versions of "trained" and no agreed definition of it. Standardization of institutional training is an explicit role at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS). A SORD Training and Integration Company (SORD-T) within SWCS would provide the missing connective tissue between MOS pipelines, advanced robotics courses, operational detachments, and emerging technology. This article is not focused on any singular course it presents a force-design proposal, focusing on a sustainable, neutral, institutional home for robotics capability generation.
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A Soldier assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, participating in the Civil Affairs Qualification Course, listens to a role-player from the fictitious country "Pineland," during Operation Sluss-Tiller, the culmination exercise for Civil Affairs students.

Feb. 5, 2026

Artificial Intelligence: The New Force Multiplier in Training Exercises

The U.S. Army is beating the drum of modernization and transformation. From combatant commands to the squad and team, every unit and Soldier feels the pace of change. Yet many training exercises remain tied to legacy formats developed during the Global War on Terror, producing scenarios and control processes that are increasingly misaligned with the demands of large-scale combat operations (LSCO), contested information environments, and accelerated decision cycles.

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