Army eyes cancellation of new logistics boat, halting TOW missile buys
Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the transformation push is expected to free up $48 billion over the next five years.
Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the transformation push is expected to free up $48 billion over the next five years.
The service wants to get the MSV-L into the US Indo-Pacific theater by the April-June timeframe to resume experimentation and follow-on testing.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
“Everything that we can knock off that list we will do in the archipelago…because that allows us to do the tests in the environment that the vessel will operate in ultimately,” said Maj. Gen. Jered Helwig.
"Mechanical issues" sidelined the Army from debuting its new Maneuver Support Vessel-Light at this year’s experiment, while the USMC tested out the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel and a stern landing vessel concept design.
“Envision a swarm of these autonomous vessels going out to various island chains … not having to beach because we're gonna have the UAVs come in, meet somewhere over the water, grab portions, and take that AOR’s portion … of ammo, food, blood,” said Rob Watts, the deputy director of the Army’s contested logistics cross-functional team.
“What we learned was, given the requirements we gave the vendor, it just was going to cost more. ... You don’t want to see that, but it’s going to happen sometimes," Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said.