Combat Vehicle Prototyping
Abstract
Next Generation Combat Vehicle Prototyping provides focused investment for the development of combat vehicles for future battlefields. The purpose of this Program Element's (PE) funding is to integrate the next generation of technology enabled capabilities developed in the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio to demonstrate new capabilities to meet emerging military needs, provide hardware for Soldier operational experiment/feedback, determine integration potential across the current Army portfolio of ground vehicles, and develop platform level prototypes. The primary efforts in this line include maturing and experimenting with Manned Un-Manned Teaming (in conjunction with Robotic Combat Vehicle) and maturing and experimenting with a variety of technologies that could potentially be added to the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) or legacy combat vehicles (such as Abrams and Bradley) in future incremental upgrades. Prototyping allows for aggressive innovation (provides a bridge from S&T investment to vehicle integration and operational use), informs requirements through User Evaluations, ensures requirements are met, mitigates capability gaps and reduces integration risks. The strategy for NGCV will be to focus on delivering incremental experimental prototypes to the warfighter to demonstrate Manned Un-Manned Teaming (MUM-T) in conjunction with Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCV), to integrate technologies to maintain overmatch while demonstrating crew task reductions through crew augmentation enabled by optimized Warfighter Machine Interface (WMI) and sensor fusion. Additionally, funding will support concept development, trade studies, technical/operational/affordability analyses to assess future concepts and designs for Next Generation Tank (NGT). The analysis of these concepts will assist in targeting and maturing the correct S&T technologies to provide the next generation capabilities to the war fighter. This funding will also support the integration of a powertrain system in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment to buy back lost mobility due to increased combat vehicle platform weight. The effort will be focused on maturation of the engine and transmission for production. In addition, this funding will support technology maturation, integration risk reduction, and qualification of key lethality/weapon system and sensor technologies to support current and future increments of the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- EV7_0603645A_4_2040_PB_2020
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