The high-tech platform will need to be able to take on enemy tanks while outnumbered.
The Army’s new Optionally Manned Tank, is a nascent project intended to propel the U.S. Army into a new generation of Combined Arms warfare. It will likely fire lasers, control drones, move at high speeds, and be able to destroy enemy helicopters. This Abrams-replacement tank will also be able to penetrate hostile armored formations and perform highly-lethal robotic operations while facing enemy fire.
The Army has begun work on a new “tank” to fight alongside and ultimately replace the Abrams tank, as part of an integrated effort to prepare the service for combat into the 2040s and beyond.
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On Tuesday, March 16, the
Next Generation Combat Vehicle: Development in 2021 and Beyond session will include several key waypoints in the development and procurement of new combat vehicles, including the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, and the Campaign of Learning for Robotic Combat Vehicles. With Brigadier General Richard R. Coffman Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team, Army Futures Command; Brigadier General Glenn A. Dean III, Program Executive Officer, Ground Combat Systems, amd Alfred J. Grein, Deputy Executive Director, US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Ground Vehicle Systems Center.
On Thursday, March 18, a session titled
Finding Alternative Ways to Access Assured Position, Navigation, Timing and Space on the Battlefield will discuss alternative ways to access APNT data such as ALTNAV, Vision Based Nav, Anti-Jam, M-Code, etc. Panelists will include CFT partners in the ground, aviation and precisi
The Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center has welcomed back a familiar face to lead its workforce of more than 11,000 engineers, scientists, researchers and support staff in delivering advanced technologies as required by the Armyâs strategic priorities and support to its Cross-Functional Teams.
Jeffrey Langhout assumed the duties of Aviation & Missile Center director Jan. 17. No stranger to the organization, Langout served in a variety of leadership roles at AvMC from April 2013 to October 2018, when he became the director of the Ground Vehicle Systems Center in Warren, Michigan.
Juanita Christensen, who precedes Langhout as AvMC director, has been selected as the new deputy chief of staff for logistics, facilities and environmental, G-4, at the Army Materiel Command, also effective Jan. 17.
5 REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – Under the guidance of a new leader, the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center will continue to deliver what the Army has come to expect from the Warfighter-focused valued team of world leaders in aviation and missile technologies and life cycle engineering – excellence.
“We’re supposed to be the smart scientists and engineers that provide the very best data and analysis to our customers,” said DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center Director Jeff Langhout. “We’re the aviation and missile science and technology experts for the Army. We have got to excel in that role.”