US Army weighs next-gen combat vehicle acceleration
The Pentagon’s FY19 budget might still be hot off the press but the US Army is under pressure to determine if it can accelerate its next generation combat vehicle (NGCV) to ensure adequate dollars make it into the FY20 request.
When the army delivered its FY19 budget request to Congress on 12 February, it included various NGCV development line items like $119.3 million for a prototyping phase.
Another line asks for $6 million so that engineers can conduct ‘autonomous and semi-autonomous mobility, countermobility and construction missions’ for the future tank’s manoeuvre robotics and autonomous systems.
Although tentative plans
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