The Medium is the Message.

• Author: Magnuson, Stew
• Position: UP FRONT

The relatively crude animated video played at NDIA's recent CBRN Defense Conference showed three trucks driving to an enemy chemical weapon dispersal. Three drones are dispatched to detect a cloud and transmit the data back to the command vehicle, explained the cartoon's narrator.

Disney Pixar-quality animation it wasn't, but it was effective, said Scott Kimmell, Army CBRN School deputy commandant. It took about two weeks to create the animation in-house at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. The script was derived from a requirement in an initial capabilities document. Using animation can have a much bigger impact on senior leaders...