Kodiak AI lands Marine Corps deal to add driverless tech to ROGUE Fires platform
Last year Forterra was also awarded a contract to integrate its autonomy stack, dubbed AutoDrive, into the JLTVs for the ROGUE Fires program.
Last year Forterra was also awarded a contract to integrate its autonomy stack, dubbed AutoDrive, into the JLTVs for the ROGUE Fires program.
The team, which includes Forterra and Oshkosh, used the Project Convergence Capstone 5 experiment to fire a Joint Reduced Range Rocket training round that is currently in source selection.
The service is funneling nearly $30 million into the program to add in Forterra’s AutoDrive system into the JLTV-based launcher.
“I want to make it very clear that the turret is not a mission essential system, if the turret was to go down, the vehicle is still mission capable,” said Clifton Boyd, the project manager for the Stryker brigade combat team.
Soldiers will begin receiving the Strykers outfitted with 30mm cannons next fall, or roughly nine months to a year later than initially anticipated.
Although the service has awarded contracts to wind down leader-follower development and give the experimental trucks back to soldiers, a separate office has launched a prototyping competition.
The Government Accountability Office will weigh in on the Army’s multi-billion decision by mid-June.
Meanwhile, the Army awaits word on whether Oshkosh Defense will protest multi-billion-dollar deal, potentially delaying the JLTV timeline.
The US company and the Zahid Group are teaming up on tactical wheeled vehicle programs.
“The Army succeeded in obtaining a lower cost than the independent government cost estimate through the recompete,” said Michael Sprang, the service’s JLTV project manager.
A recent Congressional Research Service report told lawmakers they need to scrutinize the contract’s details to determine if the Army will save money with the new deal.