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Army Focuses On Launched Effects At EDGE ‘24, Plans Requirements Update In Late FY ‘25

Army Focuses On Launched Effects At EDGE ‘24, Plans Requirements Update In Late FY ‘25
Held at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) for the second consecutive year, the 2024 iteration of the Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team (FVL CFT)'s Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) seeks to optimize the collaborative behaviors of launched effects and unmanned aircraft. Photo: Mark Schauer, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground

The Army’s latest Future Vertical Lift (FVL)-led Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) focused on the service’s pursuit of new Launched Effects capabilities, gathering data to inform a requirements update planned for late fiscal year 2025. Brig. Gen. Cain Baker, director of the Army’s FVL Cross-Functional Team, told reporters this month’s EDGE experiment at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona brought in five industry partners to support the event’s “deliberate focus” on furthering work with “autonomous collective behaviors.” “Through this partnership, we’re…

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