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Army Holding Industry Day Next Week For New Adaptive Squad Architecture Effort

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 15th, 2019

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Army Holding Industry Day Next Week For New Adaptive Squad Architecture Effort

Soldier using a virtual vehicle trainer during a recent Synthetic Training Environment assessment at Ft. Riley in Kansas. Photo: STE CFT

The Army has announced it will hold an industry day on Aug. 20 to inform vendors of a new technology architecture effort built around tools and processes to see the “soldier as an integrated weapons system and the squad as an integrated combat system.” Program Executive Office - Soldier and the Soldier Lethality Cross Functional Team (CFT) will jointly host the industry day in Springfield, Virginia, where officials will provide details on the Adaptive Squad Architecture (ASA) program. “ASA will…

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