BAE Systems has won an $8 million contract to develop precision guidance kits for artillery shells that allow the rounds to operate in a GPS-denied environment.
A study will look into robots for missions including reconnaissance, inspection inside a building and carrying equipment, with a focus on autonomous movement.
A variety of issues have caused six to eight month schedule slippages in two out of three of the Army's efforts to qualify active protection systems on combat vehicles.
Interested foreign companies may get their best shot of entering designs when partnering with U.S. firms rather than going it alone, the top Army civilian noted.
From wargaming and dummy launchers to 'layered defense in a box,' the air and missile defense force will need to adopt new approaches to handle increasingly sophisticated threats.
The new strategy will focus on the 2018 to 2028 time frame and will “nest” with the National Defense Strategy, the Army’s operating concept and the service’s new doctrinal concept of multidomain battle.