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Army

Army Continues Development Of Open Architecture Vehicle Protection System

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

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Army Continues Development Of Open Architecture Vehicle Protection System

Stryker Photo: U.S. Army

The Army recently awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] $8.5 million in contracts to develop an open-architecture controller to coordinate systems that protect armored vehicles from incoming enemy rockets.The seemingly minuscule outlays are part of a larger program to protect vehicles from proliferating shoulder-fired ordnance without weighing them down with armor or having to develop platforms from the ground up to contend with specific emerging threats. Lockheed Martin is developing the central processor for the Army’s modular active protection system (MAPS), which will…

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