US Army looks for nontraditional business to tackle robotic vehicle sustainment May 6 The Army knows robotic combat vehicles will play an important role in the ecosystem of ground operations, and it is developing light, medium and heavy RCVs to fight alongside optionally manned or manned combat vehicles in the formation. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army is tapping nontraditional businesses to tackle the challenge of future robotic combat vehicle sustainment, according to a statement from the Army Applications Laboratory. The AAL is establishing a cohort of innovators “who can develop hardware and software components around sensors and sensor data to gather, fuse and interpret RCV sustainment requirements and operational capabilities in order to deliver actionable information to decision makers,” the May 6 statement noted.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 22, 2021 at 12:32 PM
A soldier refuels his gas-guzzling MRAP armored truck in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON: How do you recharge electric vehicles on the battlefield? Army Futures Command is looking for out-of-the-box ideas, so it’s awarded $600,000 in concept development grants to six companies that don’t normally do business with the military.
Refueling Army formations is a huge logistical problem – fuel convoys in Afghanistan and Iraq were often more dangerous than combat patrols – but moving from fossil fuel to electric vehicles raises logistical dilemmas of its own. There’s no infrastructure of charging stations (or gas pumps) on the battlefield, so you need a fast way to transfer power in difficult places.
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U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground conducts developmental testing of multiple facets of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery project, from artillery shells to the longer cannon tube and larger firing chamber the improved howitzer will need to accommodate them. (Army) WASHINGTON The U.S. Army has picked five small business innovators to build prototypes intended to help increase the rate of fire of self-propelled howitzers as well as in future systems, Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s Long-Range Precision Fires modernization efforts, told Defense News on April 15.
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There clearly is still room for improvement.
Here s What You Need to Know: The new variant of the Paladin offers improved overall performance over its predecessor.
Last week, the U.S. Army hosted a live-fire demonstration of its upgraded M109A7 Paladin, which is set to replace the older M109A6 version of the self-propelled 155mm howitzer. The newly upgraded Paladin, which is produced by BAE Systems, provides increased combat capability and sustainment of the Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Teams.
“Say hello to the M109A7 Paladin, and the most recent addition to the GREYWOLF Family!,” the unit said in a tweet on the social media platform Twitter when it received the first of the new self-propelled howitzers in August. “The modernization efforts we make now, will enhance combat power within America’s #FIRSTTEAM, the U.S. Army, and entire Department of Defense during future large scale ground combat operations!”