Army Chief Makes Case for 'Easy, Intuitive' Systems Needing Fewer Industry Field Service Representatives

RTX said that the U.S. Army's EDGE exercise last month at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. featured the use of Collins Aerospace's RapidEdge mission system and Raytheon’s CODE autonomy to allow drone collaboration to achieve a goal with minimal human direction. "The autonomy solutions allowed a collaborative team of uncrewed aerial vehicles to execute a threat detection mission even when command links to human operators were severed," RTX said. "The UAVs were also able to communicate their findings to other teams, including one from Raytheon, which used the data to confirm and strike targets with a surrogate for its Coyote Block 3 launched effect" (U.S. Army Photo)

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George on Wednesday made the case for fielding "easy, intuitive" systems that require significantly less support from original equipment manufacturer (OEM) representatives in conflict zones and other forward locations. Rather than an OEM building an Army vehicle with all the "bells and whistles," such as active protection, "where we need to go is a lot of these capabilities are gonna have to be modular, and somebody else might do the active protection system,…

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R&M Government Services,* Las Cruces, New Mexico, has been awarded a maximum $23,894,784 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for battery compartments. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 3204 (a)(1), as stated in the Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This…

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Army Chief Makes Case for ‘Easy, Intuitive’ Systems Needing Fewer Industry Field Service Representatives

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R&M Government Services (Las Cruces, New Mexico) – $23,894,784

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