Sgt. Mariano Negron, a Bridge crew member with the 74th Multi-Role Bridge Company in Fort Cavazos, Texas, controls an erection boat, commonly called Beb, a portable controller on May 13 at the Fort Leonard 250 training lake.
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Sgt. Mariano Negron, with the 74TH Multi-Role Bridge Company in Fort Cavazos, Texas, is concentrated while it turns an erection boat in the water using a portable controller on May 13 at the Fort Leonard 250 formation area.
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Soldiers and technology developers discuss their evaluations of a robotic command utility vehicle tested on May 13 in the Fort Leonard Wood 401 training area.
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Fort Leonard Wood, MO. – The Army Futures Command Mans Support Battle Lab Battle Lab is finishing the experiences of integration and integration of this year’s protection and the army application laboratory assessments, in which fighters have conducted simulated battlefield experiments with 14 emerging technologies from May 5 to 16, in the places of Fort Leonard Wood.
“Protection, although largely attributed to the center of excellence for supporting maneuvers, is everyone’s responsibility,” said Kyle Henry, head of the MSBL experiment and one of the main organizers of the event.
According to Henry, MSPIX puts the latest tools in the hands of soldiers while giving developers capacities and places of credible and validated operational experience of the scientific community for their conceptual and material development.
“Engineers and scientists can get lost behind their computer screens and become close views within the limits of their laboratories. Their ideas about how something could benefit a soldier in real world applications is often biased and biased, “said Henry. “Wearing their abilities – often the work of their lives – on the ground with soldiers who can become the end user provides a verification of reality for all those involved.”
MSPIX participants include both government laboratories and private industry.
“The vast majority of technology suppliers are not under contract with the government and payment, which means that they bring us their technology and their support at no cost. Thanks to coordination with the command of the test and the army assessment and MSCOE, we can put these capacities in the hands of the soldiers, said Henry.
AAL assessments have focused on robotic violation and land formatting operations, while MSPIX has tested several unmanned and autonomous technologies.
About 50 US military forces command soldiers from Fort Leonard Wood; Fort Cavazos, Texas; Lewis-McChord’s joint base, Washington; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Carson, Colorado; And Vicenza, in Italy, participated in the assessments.
Some experiences had soldiers controlling drones, vehicles and unmanned boats crossing air, earth and water.
Sgt. Mariano Negron, a 12C, or crew member of Bridge, with the 74th Multi-Role Bridge Company in Fort Cavazos, spent a large part of May 13 at training lake 250 using a system that allowed him to control an erect bridge boat, commonly called BEB, from a portable controller.
He said he used Bebs regularly to build bridges, but not with a remote control.
“I used to use portable controllers to play games and that’s similar to that. I picked it easily. It’s like driving a remote control car,” said Negron.
The system can be installed on existing ships already in the army inventory to facilitate remote control or autonomous operation.
“We could use it to build bridges without the soldiers entering the water,” said Negron. “If we were to remain covered but also to fill a gap to transport troops or goods, we could with this technology.”
Negron said it was good to be able to provide advice to the creators of the system.
“We exploit these boats all the time. We know how to make these boats do what we need to finish our mission. I have been able to give them comments which, I hope, will improve this technology if we get it one day in the future,” said Negron.
Captain Adam Robinson, an experimental agent of the Directorate of Integration of the Development of AFC maneuvering capacity capacities in Fort Leonard Wood, supervised seven technologies tests in the training area 401.
“We are running peloton style ways to test the ability to distance violation and formatting the land of these technologies,” said Robinson. “We give a leading pyloton, a peloton sergeant and a section of combat engineers a mission to complete with these new technologies and to look at how they use the technology to perform.”
Robinson said he was impressed by looking at how the soldiers operated a field vehicle of the robotic control utility.
“The way he can move and follow is quite impressive,” said Robinson. “Engineers use them to shape the land, but as a deputy, I would use it for surveillance or replenishment. It has a variety of applications. “
Other technologies have evaluated the capacities of autonomous track chargers for excavation, emptying and filling operations; Disinfection of autonomous organic critical areas; a mobile detection system designed to detect the movement of targets and provide visual imaging; equipment delivering broad spectrum electromagnetic pulse during violation operations; And the bioreporters created to detect nervous agents for the detection of chemical threats in confrontation.