Actor Dar Salim portrays an Afghan translator for an American soldier in the new film. The U.S. military is expected to expand the use of fitness trackers that were once the subject of a Pentagon ban. The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which helps adapt commercially available technology to military use, is working to develop the expanded use of fineness trackers such as watches and rings that were successfully used for early detection of COVID-19 within the ranks, according to a Military.com The devices were at one time banned for deployed troops amid concerns GPS trackers within the trackers could be used to reveal the locations of sensitives military installations in conflict zones. However, the DIU said it had success using the devices during the pandemic by developing an artificial intelligence algorithm it paired with the commercially available trackers.