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There’s a huge commercial infrastructure for electric drive for vehicles and manufacturing plants, which represents billions of dollars in investment that navies can leverage.
By Breaking DefenseEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Both fully electric vehicles and hybrid-electric contenders will be considered for program.
By Ashley Roque
“We believe that GA is going to pioneer a completely new way to propel airborne air breathing [vehicles],” said Mike Atwood, the firm’s senior director of advanced programs.
By Aaron Mehta
Battery research programs at the Army’s Ground Vehicle System Center will help the Army’s transition to hybrid and electric vehicles allowing quieter, longer duration operations.
By Andrew Eversden
In an interview with Breaking Defense, AM General CEO Jim Cannon said that the company will display the vehicle at an exhibition “soon.”
By Andrew Eversden
“If you look at 2035 to field something hybrid, … the technology is kind of there now,” said Michael Cadieux, director of the Army’s Ground Vehicles Systems Center.
By Andrew Eversden
The strategy pushes the service to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, and train soldiers to climate-ravaged combat zones.
By Andrew Eversden
Hypersonics: DoD’s development strategy for missiles
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Oshkosh’s current major customers, the Army and the Marines, haven’t asked for an electric hybrid JLTV, but the company said the ones they have can be retrofitted “easily.”
By Andrew Eversden
“I think once the benefits of it are seen … the norms will change and we’ll see good uptake there,” Tom Arseneault said.
By Andrew Eversden and Aaron Mehta “If this works, we would use this kind of technology and apply it as we look at our requirements for other vehicles in the future,” said Stan Darbro, deputy director of the Army RCCTO.
By Andrew Eversden
The US Navy answers questions about its roadmap for employing electric and battery power for lasers, radars, and propulsion over the next two decades.
By Barry Rosenberg
The American subsidiary wants to give the Army and primes a “one point of contact” for vehicle propulsion.
By Andrew Eversden
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Power and energy are becoming mission enablers to support the increasing electric-load demands of modern combatant ships, especially in the areas of advanced radar and other electronic systems, as well as directed energy weapons.
By Barry Rosenberg
The Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, an off-road truck to scout ahead of airborne and light infantry units, could lead the Army’s move to electric motors. But electrifying heavy cargo trucks, let alone tanks, could take decades.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
