What’s next for the Pentagon after the Replicator programme?
Although the Replicator initiative has made several accomplishments, there are still multiple gaps to plug across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and its services.
QNA selected for CRS-I programme’s EMD phase
QinetiQ North America (QNA) has been selected as one of the two suppliers for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the US Army’s Common Robotic System-Individual (CRS-I) programme, the company announced on 22 May.
The potential value of the total programme is $429 million over seven years for the delivery of more than 3,000 UGVs. The EMD phase of the CRS-I programme is expected to last for ten months with the final award to be announced in early 2019.
The back-packable CRS-I UGVs will be equipped with sensors and mission modules for dismounted forces to enhance mission capabilities. It will feature an interoperable, open architecture common platform to support a variety of missions to detect, identify and counter hazards.
Jeff Yorsz, president of QNA, said: ‘Providing robust, reliable, and exceptionally capable ground robots to support our warfighters has been a driving passion at QNA for decade snow. We are very pleased with being selected for the EMD phase of CRS-I and look forward to advancing our long robotic heritage with this noteworthy programme of record.’
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