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Here’s the robotic vehicle that will carry equipment for US troops
By:
Jen Judson October 31
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Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport unmanned ground system program of record.
The initial contract for the eight-wheel drive
robotic vehicle totals $162.4 million and includes support hardware, user training and technical support. The contract will wrap up at the end of October 2024, according to an Oct. 30 Defense Department announcement.
GDLS will produce 624 systems for the Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport, or SMET, program under the contract and will begin delivery in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, an Army spokesperson confirmed to Defense News.
Four companies were chosen at the end of 2017 to compete to build the robotic vehicle that will help troops carry equipment on the battlefield.
Dirty work: Robots take on complex obstacles in US Army exercise
Learning by doing, the Army is assessing how robots can be an asset on the battlefield.
By: Jen Judson
A team of Applied Research Associates and Polaris Defense; General Dynamics Land Systems; HDT Expeditionary Systems and Howe & Howe were selected to build 20 platforms each that were issued to two infantry brigade combat teams for testing and analysis of utility in the field.
Polaris’ MRZR X was evaluated as well as HDT’s six-wheel drive Global Hunter WOLF, or Wheeled Offload Logistics Follower. Textron-owned
Howe & Howe offered its Grizzly unmanned vehicle, which is powered by an electric engine.
HDT’s Global Hunter WOLF was recently picked, along with three other teams to include Textron and QinetiQ North America, to compete to build vehicles for the
Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light effort.
