{"id":147725,"date":"2023-09-26T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147725"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:27:30","slug":"the-army-chooses-four-companies-to-build-prototypes-for-robotic-combat-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147725","title":{"rendered":"The Army chooses four companies to build prototypes for robotic combat vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Army-unmanned-ground-vehicles-01.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russo-Ukrainian War highlights new realities for modern warfare. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians have turned to drones to supplement conventional weapons. These events reveal a snapshot of what future wars may bring to bear. The U.S. military has been using drones for decades, and is consistently adjusting its long-term strategies. Increasing reliance on automation has been ongoing, and artificial intelligence is being worked on with the view of increasing AI use in military operations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From DefenseNews:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The selected companies &#8220;will concurrently mature and deliver integrated system designs towards Army requirements for a lightweight, modular and upgradeable robotic combat vehicle,&#8221; the Army&#8217;s statement said. &#8220;The RCV-Light will deliver increased situational awareness, lethality, and tactical options for Army formations in support of multi-domain operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Variants of the vehicles will serve as scouts or escorts for manned fighting vehicles, the service added.<\/p>\n<p>The Army is expected to choose a single winner in the second phase of the competition in fiscal 2025 to deliver up to nine prototypes the following year. The service has a production decision slated for FY27; fielding to the first unit is set for FY28.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the RCV-L capability to the force will provide the service with integrated teams of robots and soldiers. &#8220;Human-machine integrated teams are the future of successful ground combat in the land domain,&#8221; Brig. Gen. Geoffrey Norman, director of the Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team, said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This marks the official transition for us out of experimentation and movement to a fieldable RCV platform prior to 2030,&#8221; Steve Herrick, the Army&#8217;s product manager for RCV, said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The RCV-L competition is a product of lessons learned through surrogate prototyping and operational experimentation at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.<\/p>\n<p>Robotic vehicle surrogate prototypes have been in soldiers&#8217; hands since 2022, the Army said. A rotation with the systems wraps up at NTC this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DefenseNews provides additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/09\/21\/army-picks-four-to-build-robotic-combat-vehicle-prototypes\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russo-Ukrainian War highlights new realities for modern warfare. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians have &hellip; <a title=\"The Army chooses four companies to build prototypes for robotic combat vehicle\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147725\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Army chooses four companies to build prototypes for robotic combat vehicle<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}