Modern soldier: a sitrep: the development of futuristic networked soldier systems continues in parallel with efforts to field practical/mature equipment, and get it into the hands of infantry soldiers fighting the war on terror.

Armada International › Vol. 31 Nbr. 6, December 2007

Author: Kemp, Ian

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Modern soldier: a sitrep: the development of futuristic networked soldier systems continues in parallel with efforts to field practical/mature equipment, and get it into the hands of infantry soldiers fighting the war on terror.

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The US Army cancelled further funding for its Land Warrior programme in February 2007 in favour of expediting the delivery of mature technologies into the hands of troops fighting the war on terror and rolling less mature technologies into the Future Force Warrior programme. In 2005 the Land Warrior project was folded into the Future Force Warrior Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) programme, for which General Dynamics C4 Systems is the prime contractor. The consolidated effort forms the baseline for the Ground Soldier Systems (GSS) project, which is intended to be interoperable with the Future Combat Systems family of vehicles scheduled to enter service from 2014. The army is seeking to deploy a threshold GSS from fiscal year 2010 (FY10) and an objective GSS from FY12.

A battalion of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), 2nd Infantry Division conducted an extensive operational assessment of the Land Warrior (440 systems) and the associated Mounted Warrior (1...

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