FIELDING THE FUTURE
FAST, helped tie in the G-2 (intelligence), G-3 (operations) and other key players, such as the Army Cyber Command liai- son, Rapid Equipping Force, USAREUR’s liaisons to TRADOC and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, and experts from multiple research and development centers within CCDC.
All concurred that this technology had tremendous potential to help USAREUR with emerging requirements. During a windy, rainy week in fall 2019, the FAST team, in conjunction with USAREUR G-6 technical advisors, Soldiers, Army Research Laboratory scientists and C5ISR engineers and contractors, conducted sustained and effective data transfer for a team of visiting leaders that included Lt. Gen. Christopher Cavoli, USAREUR commanding general. By building consen- sus within USAREUR and with the right points of contact, the FAST team success- fully demonstrated a technology that met the emerging needs of the USAREUR command, paving the way for further development of Li-Fi technologies.
BE PART OF THE BIGGER EFFORT: DEVELOPMENTAL ROBOTICS The Army has focused doctrine and technology development on multido- main operations, which includes fighting across land, sea, air and cyber. Under the land portion, combatant commands have further emphasized the need for a renewed focus on the megacity challenge, as well as subterranean operations. To this end, CCDC’s Armaments Center estab- lished a community of interest to bring requirements writers, materiel developers, scientists, engineers and Army commands together. Te Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) has even come to the table with its Subterranean (SubT)
ROBOT OF ALL TRADES
Tunnel reconnaissance robots like this one, co-developed with DARPA, the CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center and South Korea to meet the requirements of the 2 ID, are part of an effort aimed at integrating autonomous mapping, data teaming, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear sensor capabilities to support subterranean operations. (Photo courtesy of Lt. Col. Michael Sansone, CCDC – Pacific)
Challenge. Te FAST teams at USAREUR and USFK joined this SubT community in 2015, leveraging it to bring relevant exper- tise and technology to Soldiers.
Te first big victory for this effort was in South Korea, with the Rapid Equip- ping Force under the Program Executive Office for Soldier procuring specially modified iRobot platforms for subterra- nean operations. Tese robots had been developed over more than 10 years in a
collaborative effort between DARPA and CCDC’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center (formerly the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center), and answered an operational needs state- ment for the 2nd Infantry Division (2 ID).
Although the first iRobot platforms didn’t transition to a program of record, they paved the way for later developmen- tal programs informed by the work of the SubT community of interest and emerging
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