AMERICA’S ARMY WINNING IN A COMPLEX WORLD

Army Science and Technology
Army S&T investment portfolios support Army modernization goals
to develop and field affordable equipment in a rapidly changing
technological and economic environment. The S&T Enterprise addresses
this need by fostering technology invention, innovation, demonstration
and maturation for the current and future fight.
GROUND MANEUVER S&T PORTFOLIO
The Ground Maneuver S&T Portfolio supports BA2 and BA3 research,
development and demonstration of technologies to ensure Army
freedom of maneuver. The Ground Maneuver S&T Portfolio focuses on
technologies to provide survivability for combat and tactical vehicles and
bases, power and mobility for ground vehicles, technology to support
debarkation and embarkation of U.S. Forces and countermobility/
counter improvised explosive device technologies to ensure freedom
of maneuver. The Ground Maneuver S&T Portfolio’s vision is to
maintain U.S. overmatch in military vehicles for offensive and defensive
capabilities. This portfolio also manages ground maneuver related
projects from the BA4 Technology Maturation Initiative (TMI) and
BA7 ManTech S&T programs.
The Ground Maneuver S&T investment strategy has subportfolios,
including survivability for ground vehicles, survivability for protective
structures, ground vehicle platforms, assured mobility/countermobility
and ground vehicle robotics. Industry is a key partner to ensure the
success of this portfolio by developing technologies to enable future and
modernized ground vehicles for the Army. Industry participates in a
range of S&T efforts that help shape that future, from vehicle concepts
to developing standards, such as Vehicular Integration for Command,
Control, Computers, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare (C4ISR/EW) Interoperability
and Active Protection Systems (APS). Two of the Ground Maneuver
Portfolio’s major strategic efforts were initiated in FY15.
The Combat Vehicle Prototyping (CVP) Program matures technologies
to address technical and integration challenges facing the
ground combat fleet in the areas of mobility, survivability, lethality and
vehicle architecture. The CVP focuses on maturation and demonstration
of technologies such as engines, transmissions, integrated starter
generators, ballistic protection, blast mitigation, advanced material
technologies, lethality subsystems and advanced fire controls. The
goal is to deliver a portfolio of mature technologies and subsystems by
FY19. This effort informs the requirements for future fighting vehicles,
identifies insertion opportunities for the legacy ground platform fleet
and drives down future Program of Record (PoR) and Engineering
Change Proposal risk.
The Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) Program is developing
technologies to increase vehicle survivability and protection
against current and emerging advanced threats. MAPS is focused on
developing and demonstrating active protection, using a modular
framework (A-Kit) that will facilitate commonality across the Army’s
ground vehicle fleets but with sensor and countermeasure sets (B-Kit)
tailored to each vehicle’s assigned threats. The modular approach will
help alleviate integration issues and costs across the military vehicle
fleets and be upgradable as new APS components and threats emerge.
The effort’s overall goal is to demonstrate component capability and
validate architecture design to ease integration and facilitate fielding of
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