The Department of Defense is handing out contracts for a project to record what soldiers see and do in battle zones. The new initiative closely resembles another, called LifeLog, that the Pentagon scrapped months ago. Wired.com article by Noah Shachtman:

It’s been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name.

Using a series of sensors embedded in a GI’s gear, the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology, or ASSIST, project aims to collect what a soldier sees, says and does in a combat zone — and then to weave those events into digital memories, so commanders can have a better sense of how the fight unfolded.

read more, also read about the total information awareness system

see also my previous post on the lifelog project.