Enhanced VETRONICS Advanced Technology
Abstract
This Project matures, integrates, and demonstrates vehicle electronics hardware such as computers, sensors, communications systems, displays, and vehicle command/control/driving mechanisms as well as vehicle software to enhance crew performance, increase vehicle fuel efficiency, reduce Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) burdens and reduce vehicle maintenance costs. This Project also exploits open system architectures (power and data) for military ground vehicles to enable common interfaces, standards and hardware implementations. The overall vehicle system architecture approach provides an open architecture such as the Vehicle Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance / Electronic Warfare (C4ISR/EW) Interoperability (VICTORY), to allow platforms to accept future technologies without the need for significant re-design as new technologies are developed and integrated. Additionally, this project matures infrastructure that enables the ease of integration of autonomous subsystem technologies into future and existing tactical and combat vehicle architectures. Technical challenges include software and algorithm development for increased levels of automation for both manned and unmanned systems, secure vehicle data networks, interoperability of intra-vehicle and inter-vehicle systems, and implementation of advanced user interfaces. Overcoming these technical challenges enables improved and increased span of collaborative vehicle operations, efficient workload management, commander's decision aids, embedded simulation for battlefield visualization and fully integrated virtual test/evaluation. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Research in this Project supports the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Army Modernization Priority. Research in this Project is performed by the United States (US) Army Futures Command. Research in this Project is coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- BH8_0603462A_3_2040_PB_2024
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