FIELDING THE FUTURE


LAUNCH


The Navy and Army jointly executed the launch of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body, part of the LRHW, in a flight experiment from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, in March. RCCTO is charged with delivering the prototype LRHW to a battery no later than the 2023 fiscal year. (Photo by Oscar Sosa, U.S. Navy)


a whole works. Te kinds of things that would take hours with a crane and several more hours with tools, we were doing on our own in seconds.”


As the prototype is built, this ongoing Soldier feedback will help identify early design changes and offer ways to improve the operational capacity before fielding. RCCTO AHPO is planning to conduct more than 30 Soldier feedback opportuni- ties throughout the development process as it moves toward fielding the prototype in fiscal year 2023.


“Using virtual reality and augmented real- ity early is essential,” said 1st Sgt. Michael Weaver, with the 1-31st Field Artillery Battalion, 434th Field Artillery Brigade.


“It allows for changes in design to be made efficiently prior to initial rate production. And the user possesses a unique knowledge base because they have spent countless hours in a variety of environmental and physiological conditions, which gives them insight on designs that may be cumber- some or conflict with other movements or actions that have to be conducted in a timely manner.”


As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country this spring and altered many hands-on processes, AHPO worked hard to continue Soldier-centered design. To adjust, RCCTO partnered with the Fires Center of Excellence to execute virtual Soldier-centered design for critical items such as reviewing operator roles. The


team also partnered with the Army Multi- Domain Targeting Center on executing mission-planning steps virtually and laying out the overall kill-chain process digitally, including redundant command-and- control systems in support of multidomain operations.


LASER FOCUS Te Army’s RCCTO Directed Energy Project Office is working to transition science and technology efforts to combat- capable prototypes. Te Directed Energy Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (DE-MSHORAD) will field a 50 kW-class laser integrated onto a Stryker platform in fiscal year 2022. Tis fielded prototype will be deployed to protect divisions and brigade combat teams from unmanned


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