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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 18, 2020 at 3:39 PM
Army concept for how its future Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle attacks
WASHINGTON: The Army has redesigned its Request For Proposals to replace the Bradley troop carrier to give industry “maximum latitude” to innovate, Brig. Gen. Richard Coffman told reporters this morning. It’s even removed all classified data to let foreign companies participate fully. But one thing will be absolutely mandatory: compliance with a new set of technical standards and interfaces – known as a Modular Open Systems Architecture – that the service is developing for all its future combat vehicles.
Most Infantry Fighting Vehicles on the global market – including the only publicly announced contender, the Rheinmetall Lynx – look a lot like the Reagan-era M2 Bradley: They’re tracked machines with a driver in the hull, a commander and gunner in the turret, and five to nine infantry soldiers in the back, transported under ar
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 11, 2020 at 3:11 PM
Army concept for how its future Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle will penetrate enemy lines.
WASHINGTON: The Army is taking industry concerns to heart as it revises its next Request For Proposals for a new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, officials told company representatives at an industry day on Wednesday.
In particular, they’ve slashed the (virtual) paperwork required for the next phase of the program, Phase II, by more than 80 percent, and they’ve replaced a grueling Preliminary Design Review with a less demanding Systems Functional Review, which requires less detailed data and allows less mature technology. That change effectively defers some design and development work from the upcoming Phase II contracts, which run from roughly June 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022, to the later Phase III contracts, to be awarded in February 2023.
New AC-DC Power Supply with Alignment to SOSA(TM) Technical Standard PR.com
2020-12-11
Murphy, NC, December 11, 2020 (PR.com) Aegis Power Systems, Inc. announces the new VPX1PH3UC310-SA, a single-phase 85-264Vac input to 28Vdc output power supply module with 310 watts and EMI filtering. This rugged slide-in power supply has been developed in alignment with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture(TM) (SOSA) technical standard for use in interoperable systems for sensor management.
Using the latest in switching power technology, this product achieves high efficiency AC-DC conversion with .99 power factor correction in a conduction cooled module with +12V and +3.3V AUX outputs in alignment with the SOSA(TM) technical standards. Users with increasing battlefield demands for C5ISR and embedded computing equipment can make use of advanced power converter features such as built-in EMI filtering, alignment keys for using multiple units in one chassis, I2C monitoring and IPMC redu