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Army, DIU Tap Eight Firms To Work On Autonomy Software For Robotic Combat Vehicles

Army, DIU Tap Eight Firms To Work On Autonomy Software For Robotic Combat Vehicles
Robotic Combat Vehicle (Light), RCV(L), prototype during Soldier Experimentation at the National Training Center, NTC, Fort Irwin, CA from July to September 2023. Photo: Savannah Baldwin, Army's PEO Ground Combat Systems

The Army has partnered with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and selected eight firms to work on prototyping autonomous software and processes for the Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program, to include Anduril Industries and Palantir Technologies [PLTR] working on software architecture development. The remaining companies tapped for the Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways (GVAP) project include Forterra, Kodiak Robotics, Neya Systems and Overland AI as autonomous navigation vendors and Applied Intuition Inc. and Scale AI working on the “machine learning and…

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