RDECOM’S ROAD MAP TO MODERNIZING THE ARMY: NEXT GENERATION COMBAT VEHICLE


TAKING IT OFF-ROAD


On an April 2018 visit to the RDECOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center, Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark T. Esper drives the fuel cell-equipped Chevy Colorado ZH2 demonstrator. Te center leverages General Motors’ fuel cell and off-road technologies in developing Army vehicles that are safer and more powerful. (U.S. Army photo by Carl Jones II)


image and signal processing AITR algorithms to support manned and unmanned vehicle targeting and decision-making. Tese algorithms, along with new advanced sensors, will be capable of locating concealed targets in a variety of backgrounds and under a range of conditions. As the algorithms and sensors mature, they will provide automated detection of both stationary and moving threats, augmenting traditional AITR and increasing the surviv- ability and lethality of the NGCV platform.


Future efforts include integrating and demonstrating real-time AITR on NGCV platforms. Te ability of ground vehicles to rapidly find difficult targets in complex environments will improve the ground vehicles’ lethality and ability to maintain overmatch in the future.


TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATORS AND PROTOTYPES RDECOM scientists and engineers are exploring the art of the possible by integrating emerging technologies onto existing plat- forms to demonstrate how they will work. Tese demonstrations inform Army leadership and the acquisition community about what currently exists, as well as what might be possible in the future.


In particular, the Ground Vehicle Systems Center has been leveraging the Mission Enabling Technologies Demonstrator, a modified Bradley Fighting Vehicle, to demonstrate various emerg- ing science and technology capabilities for manned-unmanned teaming. Until the requirements for a remote combat vehicle are determined, we have equipped a supply of M1113 armored


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Army AL&T Magazine


January-March 2019


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