Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology

Abstract

This PE executes research for the Army's modernization priority for the Next Generation of Combat Vehicles. This PE researches, designs, and evaluates combat vehicle technologies that enable the Army to have a smarter, faster, more lethal, more precise, more protected, and more adaptable force. The focus is on building upon the foundational vehicle architectures to support the Next Generation of Combat Vehicles, to include autonomy architecture, power architecture, vehicle electronic architecture, physical architecture, lethality architecture and vehicle protection architecture. The research conducted will provide technologies to enable leap ahead capabilities for manned, optionally manned and unmanned vehicles that deliver decisive lethality. Work in this PE complements PE 0602141A (Lethality Technology), PE 0602144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology), PE 0602782A (Command, Control, Communications Technology), PE 0603116A (Lethality Advanced Technology), PE 0603119A (Ground Advanced Technology), PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology), and PE 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology). Work in this PE will transition to PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work is performed by the United States Army Futures Command and United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0602145A_2_2040_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY20 increase related to Science and Technology financial restructuring.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Navigation
• Autonomous Systems
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Combat Vehicles
• Computational Science
• Detection
• Detectors
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Intelligent Agents
• Lasers
• Mechanics
• Propulsion Systems
• Target Recognition
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics