Crew Augmentation and Optimization Tech
Abstract
This Project designs capabilities for reduced vehicle crew sizes to successfully operate a larger number of closed-hatch manned and remote unmanned vehicles in a complex multi-domain operations environment. This Project will enable future crews to perform missions with increasingly sophisticated technologies, and in increasingly complex, dynamic socio-technical environments. The applied research will provide the fundamental technologies to enable integrated performance improved learning - Warfighter Machine Interfaces (WMIs) that are scalable to multiple crew hardware and functional configurations; reconfigurable frameworks and simulation for concept experimentation and exploration; and team-centered dynamic tasking by machine intelligence to effectively utilize full capabilities of crew and technologies. The research will generate Soldier-informed data, reports, and analysis to support operational use in future vehicles through Soldier experimentation and assessment of technical concepts in simulation and in-field WMIs. The capabilities created by this research will increase overall crew and team performance; improved Soldier safety due to fewer Soldier per vehicle, closed-hatch operations, and improved standoff from effective control; and vehicles that can effectively conduct multiple domain operations. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology) and PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC) and Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- BF6_0602145A_2_2040_PB_2025
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