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Prototypes
Budgets
Funding
Fiscal years
Armed forces
Vehicles
Robotics
摘要:
The service is taking the same steps for the common robotic system - individual, or CRS(I), a smaller system that provides soldiers with reconnaissance capabilities on a lower level, he added. "[From] squad to platoon to company to battalion, how can we get the greatest capability into the hands of soldiers and be able to afford to do it?" One goal includes developing a common architecture for robotics systems, which would allow the service to "plug and play" a variety of technologies into a platform to give it different capabilities, he noted. Much of the funding boost is geared toward increased requirements for the Common Robotic System (Heavy) program, a new start for fiscal year 2019, and the heightened testing and payload efforts for SMET, the documents state. The service has been exploring this idea since the days of Future Combat Systems, he noted, referencing a major effort to integrate these capabilities and develop a family of vehicles that was canceled in 2009. [...]we actually start doing it and putting some of these capabilities in the hands of our soldiers, we’re not going to learn, we’re never going to move forward," he noted.