The second generation Mounted Assured PNT System (MAPS Gen II) program is currently under contract with RTX subsidiary Collins Aerospace which is scheduled to run through September 2027.
“I acknowledge that their intellectual property is their intellectual property,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, said of the vendors. “It is a shame on us for not buying it up front, which is foolish, a fool's errand."
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“We need to do it at a price point that is ridiculously low: We don't need the Gucci cameras and everything else,” said Army Futures Command head Gen. James Rainey.
Army Materiel Command Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan said the service could disband a floating, mobile cache of weapons and equipment and instead distribute them in friendly territory.
"Our Ukrainian partners, because of necessity, are pushing the boundaries on how they do [3D printing] — both at the tactical level and all the way back at their depot system as well. The world has a lot to learn from how our Ukrainian partners are working," Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan told Breaking Defense.
“We had battalions and squads with UAS that had not had them in that volume or at those echelons before. We endeavored to make contact with unmanned systems first,” said Col. Jim Armstrong, the commander of 1st ABCT, 3rd ID.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.