What if soldiers could locate a target 12 miles away? See through a blinding dust storm? Or flag a building with "laser liquid" visible to pilots high in the sky?

The technology exists. But many times the training trails behind. That changed when two groups recently tried out the technology on Fort Bragg and 37 PSR Gun Club in Bunnlevel.

Snipers with the 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and cadets from the U.S. Military Academy worked with defense contractor CACI. Read more about the company - and its growing profile - in May's business column about PEO Soldier.