Page 13 - Army Combat Capabilities Development Command News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

US Army prepping robotic combat vehicles for big test with soldiers in 2022 4 days ago A Textron, Howe & Howe and FLIR Systems team unveiled its Ripsaw M5 robotic combat vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual show in 2019. The team was selected to build RCV-Light prototypes to help the Army build requirements for a future program of record. (Photo courtesy of Textron) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has taken receipt of its light and medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes from industry teams and is putting them through the paces this year ahead of a major company-level ...

Army Aims to Develop Light Electric Vehicle By 2025 TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLES 3/16/2021 iStock illustration The Army is working on electrification technologies for its platforms, and the service plans to build an electric light vehicle demonstrator that will be ready for testing as early as 2025, an official said March 16. “That is in the realm of the possible,” said Alfred Grein, acting director for Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center. “I'm not saying [it's] a system that would be fielded, but certainly a s...

The High Tech Way the U.S. Military Wants to Talk to Satellites Quickly sharing data to the right units and commanders is critical in wartime. The U.S. military excels at acquiring intelligence, but central command and boots on the ground engaged in combat operations often run into technical bottlenecks when trying to share that mission-critical data over single beam terminals, such as parabolic antennas and other outdated infrastructure. The U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy are conducting a series of ongoing key trials of cutting-edge satellites and terminals in a concerted effort to break thro...

Army preps for key tests of seeker capable of attacking maritime targets January 20 Lockheed Martin's PrSM missile was tested for a third time at White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico, on April 30, 2020. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON — The Army is preparing for key tests of a multimode seeker for munitions that will be capable of attacking maritime targets, but current funding will prevent a faster timeline to integrate it into the Army’s future long-range missile, according to Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the service’s long-range precision fires modernization ef...

US Army looks to millimeter waveforms to strengthen communications December 30, 2020 The U.S. Army wants to use millimeter waveforms to better protect communications. (Staff Sgt. Armando R. Limon/Army) WASHINGTON — Future deliveries of U.S. Army tactical network tools could include new waveform technologies that would reduce adversaries’ chances of interfering with communications. The research and development organization tackling future capabilities for the Army’s tactical network team has several efforts underway with millimeter wave technology, a frequency channel that could al...