Army to brief industry this month on developing active-protection vetronics against anti-tank weapons
WARREN, Mich. – U.S. Army armored combat vehicles experts will brief industry later this month on a vetronics project to enable military vehicles to detect and destroy incoming anti-tank weapons before they can hit their targets.
Officials of the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Mich., will brief industry at 1 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday 19 Nov. at the Velocity Center, 6633 18 Mile Road, in Sterling Heights, Mich., on the upcoming Soft Kill Active Protection System project.
The Soft Kill Active Protection System is to protect ground combat vehicles from anti-tank weapons by detecting an incoming threat, identifying a countermeasure, and neutralizing the threat.
The system must be safe, modular, and expandable using open-systems standards. It also must integrate future sensors and countermeasures easily, and comply with the Modular Active Framework (MAF).
MAF 1.0 is the Army’s roadmap to standardize the development and upgradability to ensure that vehicular active protection systems are modular, upgradable, safe, and secure, and seeks to make Army combat vehicles affordable, common, interchangeable and able to be integrated with any active protection subsystem. MAF 1.0 is one of two primary products that will result from the Army's Modular Active Protection Systems (MAPS) program.
The Soft Kill Active Protection System project requires modular software and hardware that can expand with other systems as the MAF standard evolves.
Companies interested in attending the briefings must be members of the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) in Ann Arbor, Mich. Contact NAMC for how to join online at www.namconsortium.org/membership/membership-application.
For more information on how to register for the Soft Kill Active Protection System industry briefings, email the Army's Jeffrey Weiss at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/opp/1338decfb53b4a2389ed3afa53c81b6d/view.
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