Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) NGCV-CFT
Abstract
The Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) Prototyping effort will produce unmanned combat vehicle prototypes with the purpose of providing vehicles that Soldiers will use to develop new Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) and new requirements for unmanned combat vehicles to support Army Modernization priorities. RCV efforts will be executed in three (3) phases focused on increasing the complexity of RCV soldier maneuvers and expanding prototype platform capability. These efforts provide the basis for the Army to make the decision to move forward with a Robotic Combat Vehicle program transitioning from Technology Demonstrations to a Program of Record through Modeling and Simulation (M&S) development, initial prototype testing and iterative Soldier evaluations. This will stress the autonomy systems developed within the Science and Technology (S&T) base, assist the Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team (NGCV CFT) with refining RCV requirements, and develop the CONOPS and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) for Manned / Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) in combat relevant missions. In order to accelerate user involvement with RCV platform capabilities, an RCV Prototyping effort will be executed through a three (3) phase activity. The RCV surrogate platform build (Phase 1) was initiated in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 under 0604017A Robotics Development, Project FD9 Robotics Systems and will conclude in this project with test and demonstration. This project will finalize Phase 1's rapid prototype build of surrogate RCV platforms using existing robotized vehicles and conduct Soldier evaluations at the platoon level (4 RCVs) through MUM-T evaluations. In order to conduct larger scale MUM-T maneuvers and to continue to advance the autonomous performance of the robotic platforms, two additional platoons of RCVs will be built leveraging existing contractor unmanned platforms for a total of a company set (12) RCVs. The company of RCVs (Phase 2) will be used for a second round of Soldier experimentation building off of the platoon exercises and providing additional refinement of CONOPs/TTPs. The RCV Phase 3 prototyping will build off lessons learned in Phases 1 and 2 and develop and produce innovative, unmanned platforms that investigate different approaches to solving challenges and building on opportunities in Phases 1 and 2 to include looking at different weight class RCV platform and new modular mission payloads for RCV platforms. The intent is to award a minimum of two contracts to design and build up to a company set (12) RCV platforms for user evaluation and experimentation starting at the end of FY 2024. The RCV platforms will incorporate mature technology capabilities transitioned from S&T as they become available to include the latest autonomous mobility capability, improved user control interfaces and advanced sensing and aided target recognition. The Phase 3 RCV platform requirements will be informed by the initial platoon and company experimentation (Phase 1 and 2) and Soldier feedback.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- CF4_0604017A_4_2040_PB_2021
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