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.
Tritium to participate in US Army electric power programme 28 Apr 2021 (Last Updated April 28th, 2021 09:49)
The US Army has chosen Australia-based company Tritium to support its Power Transfer Cohort programme, an initiative to help the Army transition to electric vehicles (EVs).
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Tritium’s Modular Scalable Charging (MSC) platform. Credit: PRNewsfoto / Tritium.
The US Army has chosen Australia-based company Tritium to support its Power Transfer Cohort programme, an initiative to help the Army transition to electric vehicles (EVs).
The programme has been created to help identify and explore whether EV-enabling technologies can work across the Army’s fleet, which comprises almost 225,000 vehicles.
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TORRANCE, Calif., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Tritium, a global leader in DC fast charging technology for electric vehicles (EVs), today announced that it has been selected to participate in the Power Transfer Cohort, powered by the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL) in collaboration with Alion Science and Technology. This program focuses on advancing solutions that will support remote access, rapid recharging, and scalable infrastructure to help the Army move to EVs. Tritium is the only DC fast charging provider which was selected for the program.
Companies in the Cohort will work directly with the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team (NGCV) and the Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) to identify and explore EV infrastructure technologies that can work across the diverse fleet of ~225,000 Army vehicles operating in the most demanding environments.
AUSTIN, Texas (April 27, 2021) Austin startup Apptronik has created a robotic arm resulting from an innovative project model to increase how fast artillery pieces fire and are resupplied. The company will demonstrate the potentially game-changing arm on April 30 at its Stonehollow Drive facility.
Austin-based Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), a subordinate organization of Army Futures Command (AFC), ran the Army’s first-ever cohort program for solution development, from which Apptronik was selected to continue development of its prototype. The cohort brought six tech companies together to solve one of the service’s highest-priority problems: how to resupply self-propelled cannons faster. AAL’s approaches to incentivize industry to work with the Army have resulted in record-breaking numbers of applications from businesses like Apptronik, and a number of Army firsts. AAL’s Field Artillery Autonomous Resupply cohort model is one of the ways that the Army Fu