Here’s a list of Army research and development projects from a document I obtained — dated November 2013 — covering the next five years. I was surprised, well not really, that so many are just continuations of what is already being done in Afghanistan, but not surprised how much is to tame the information monster. Don’t see much though that reflects any kind of commitment to some future big war.
The list (I didn’t correct for spelling or amplify; some items are inscrutable):
| 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared-Engine (3GF-E) |
| Acoustic Hailing Device |
| ACRO PET (London Larado) addition for Nitrate, Chlorate, and Urea explosives |
| Active Protection Systems |
| Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System |
| Air Vigilance |
| Airborne Counter-Explosive Reconnaissance and Targeting System |
| Airborne Electronic Attack |
| Airborne Recon Low-Multifunction Medium Altitude Recon & Surv |
| AirRobot AR150 with Dual IR cameras |
| American Innovations-Home Made Explosive Bulk Precursor Detection Kit |
| AMT, Sentinel XD CDS (Advanced Mesh Network) |
| AN/PSS-14 Cache Detection |
| Argonaut 200 |
| Assured PNT |
| ATACMS Unitary Increment 0 Product Improvement |
| ATIRCM |
| Automated Surveillance Security Platform |
| Automated Wide Area Surveillance |
| Autonomous Mine Detection System |
| Avatar II Tactical Robot |
| Axton SMART AT-32S 8-watt IR floodlight. |
| Bam Stick |
| Beagle – Handheld NQR |
| BETSS-C – Force Protection (FP) Suite |
| BFT2 Manpack |
| Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) 4.0 SP6 |
| BiStatic |
| Bistatic Surveillance System |
| Black Granite Integrated Sensor Suite |
| Black Kite |
| Blue Devil |
| BlueSky Mast Portable Modular Mast |
| Bobcat T110 with QinetiQ Robotic Kit with TARDEC roller |
| Bobcat with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Mobile Deployment System (MDS) |
| Boston Dynamics 30 lb robot with six paddles for rough terrain or swim |
| BuckEye – Geospatial Data Collection |
| C5ISR Aerial Layer |
| Catamount |
| Cerberus Lite |
| Checkpoint Explosive Detection System Gen 2 |
| CI and HUMIT Requirements-Reporting Operations Management Environment |
| CISCO Identity Service Engine |
| Colorimetric Reconnaissance Explosives Squad Screening |
| Combat Service Support Very Small Aperture Terminal |
| Combat Survivor Evader Locator (SEP) |
| Command Post of the Future |
| Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station |
| Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station (CROWS) UMR – JERRV |
| Common Sensor Payload |
| Company Intelligence Support Team |
| Constant Hawk – Afghanistan |
| Constant Hawk – Iraq |
| Container Weapon System (CWS) with CROWS II, Javelin, and SEK remote SA Computer |
| COP camera system with CROWS I camera parts and new cables, GPS, and tripod |
| Copperhead |
| CORAL-SD II passive, non-intrusive, thermal detection system |
| Counter – Unmmanned Aircraft Sytems |
| Counter Radio Control Electronic Warfare – Crew Vehicle Reactive Jammer |
| Counter Radio Control Electronic Warfare – DUKE |
| Counter Shooter System with Highly Accurate Immediate Responses / Iron Curtain |
| Counter-Concealment Sensors |
| Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Automated Reporting a Collection System |
| Covert Thermal Camera System |
| CREW 3.1 |
| CREW Stryker FoV |
| Crew Vehicle Reactive Jammer (CVRJ) Fixed Site |
| Crosshairs Enhanced |
| Cryptographic Equipment and Services |
| CVRJ Platform Integration Buffalo |
| DCGS-A Edge Node (DEN) |
| Deep Sea Set |
| Department of Defense ABIS |
| Desert Owl |
| Dismount Blue Force Tracker |
| Dismounted Soldier Autonomy Tools |
| Dismounted Standoff Explosive Hazard Detection-Handheld Small Sized Detector |
| Dismounted Standoff Explosive Hazard Neutralization – Remote Initiator |
| Distributed Commom Ground Station-Army (DSGS-A) Cloud |
| Distributed Common Ground System – Army Increment 1 DSB 1.0 |
| Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Increment 1 Release 2 |
| Duke V2 EA |
| Duke V3 Fixed Site |
| DUKE V3 Platform Integration Husky |
| Electromagnetic Pulse |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations |
| Electronic Protection System on MRAP |
| Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) |
| Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Digital |
| Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Optical |
| Evaluation of each additional candidate Nano Unmanned Air System (NUAS) |
| Expendable Unattended Ground Sensor |
| Eyeball Remote Camera System |
| Eyedrive throwable UAV |
| Fido Handheld Sniffer |
| Forensic Operator Advanced Kit |
| FORGE (Zero Base) Li-Ion |
| FOTOD-Screening Obscuration Device-Visual (restricted terrain) |
| GaRD Mobile System |
| GDC4S Intelligence Low Overhead Driver |
| GEMSIS |
| General Fund Enterprise Business System-Sensitive Activities |
| Georgia Tech (GTRI) Integration of Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Hopping Robot |
| Glasswave |
| Global Broadcast Service |
| Global Visualization Information System |
| Gray Eagle |
| Green Laser Interdiction System (GLIS) |
| Griffin |
| Groundhog |
| Guardrail/Common Sensor |
| Gunfire Detection System |
| GunSHOT Detection (GSD) |
| Gunshot Detection Simulation Training System |
| GyroCam RG-31 |
| Hand Held Precision Targeting Device |
| Handheld Laser Marker |
| Handheld Minefield Detection System |
| Handheld Optical Augmentation |
| Harris Fusion Network Communication Server |
| Harris-Aerial C4ISR Payload Suite |
| Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team |
| Homemade Explosive Characterization |
| Hostile Fire Detection System Warfighter in the Loop Design Study and Demo |
| Hostile Fire Indicator |
| HTV HEMTT CVRJ |
| Hunter Upgrade |
| Husky MK III with OEF SPARK |
| Husky Mounted Detection System |
| Improvements to Remote Monitoring System (RMS) Direction Finder. |
| individual Counter RCIED Electronic Warfare |
| Individual Gunshot Detection (IGD) |
| Integrated Blast Effects Sensor Suite (I-BESS). |
| Integrated Broadcast Service |
| Integrated Sensor Improvement |
| Integrated Sensor Tower Long Range |
| Integration of CROSSHAIRS 2.0 and CROWS II gun in static mount |
| Intelligence – Central Security Service – Project G |
| Intelligence Warfighter Function |
| Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer |
| Intelligence-Special Access Programs |
| IRobot Warrior robot with XADS StunStrike Xap Disrupter |
| Israeli Namer Feasibility Assessment |
| Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System |
| Joint Crew 3.3 Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device |
| Joint Direct Support Airborne ISR |
| Joint Effects Targeting System (JETS) Target Location Designation System (TLDS) |
| Joint Personnel Identification System, Version 2 |
| Joint USFK Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition (JUPITR) |
| Joint Warning and Reporting Network |
| Kaplan |
| Keyhole |
| Kratos NeuralStar |
| L-3 CyTerra lightweight mine detector |
| L3GDS Hawkeye III Lite CoCP |
| Launched Electrode Stun Device |
| Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System (LMAMS) managed by PM CCWS |
| Light Guard |
| LightGuard Mercury |
| Linguist Geometry-Realtime Adversarial Intelligence and Decision Making |
| Live Aerial ISR Link (LAIL) |
| Long Range Acoustic Device 360X |
| Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System |
| Longbranch |
| LONGWALK |
| Low, Slow Airborne Threat Response |
| Machine- Foreign Language Translation System |
| Magneto Inductive-Remote Activation Munition System |
| Man Portable Detection System |
| Marathon Robotic Human Type Target (RHTT) System. |
| Maritime Domain Awareness Joint Integrating Concept |
| Medium Altitude Reconnaissance Surveillance System |
| Micro Tactical Ground Robot (MTGR) |
| Micro Unmanned Aircraft System |
| Mine & IED Detection – Minehound, Vallon VMR2 |
| Mini-EOD Robot |
| Mobile Unmanned Tactical Transport |
| Monocle |
| Motion activated camera with video storage and RF to portable Interrogation Set |
| Motion activated camera with video storage and RF to Route Clearance Vehicle |
| Multi-Function Electronic Warfare |
| Multiple Intelligence Sensor V4 |
| Narcissus Counter Surveillance Systems |
| Networked EW, Remotely Operated (NERO) |
| One System Remote Video Terminal |
| One Tactical Engagement Simulation Systems |
| PackBot 510 Engineer |
| PackBot 510 Upgrades |
| PackBot 510 with FASTAC |
| Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter and Wi-Fi only Apple iPod Touch for control |
| Pearls of Wisdom |
| Persistent Surveillance Systems – Tethered |
| Phanton IR |
| Picatinny Optical Detection System |
| Polaris Diesel Ranger with QinetiQ Tactical Robotic Controller (TRC) and roller |
| Prioria Maveric lightweight, portable unmanned aircraft system (S-UAS).. |
| Prophet Enhanced |
| Prox Dynamics Nano Unmanned Air System (UAS). |
| Puma AE RQ-20A with MicroLink thin film solar cells on wing |
| PUMA DDL upgrades to PUMA DDL launcher, battery and 9 DB GCS antenna. |
| PUMA modules Micro Laser Marker (uLM) and Tactical Compact Comm Relay (TCCR) |
| RAID Mobile Tower |
| Rapid Attack Identification, Detection and Reporting System |
| Rapid Deployment Integrated Surveillance Systems |
| Rapid Reaction Tunnel Detection (R2TD) |
| Rapidly Elevated Aerostat Platform (REAP) Model XL R3500B |
| Rapiscan Eagle T1000 |
| Raptor X |
| Raven GPU |
| RC-50/60 Modular Robotic Control System |
| RCV Buffalo Duke V3 |
| Relevant ISR to the Edge 3G |
| RG-31 Medium Mine Protective Vehicle (MMPV) |
| Ringtail Common Tactical Vision |
| RoadHawk |
| Roadmaster |
| ROAMER Net |
| Robot upgrades |
| Robotic Bobcat with a Laser Vibrometry Imaging and Detection System (LVIDS) |
| Robotic Deployment System 2 on RG31A2 |
| Robotic Pointman – Mini Flail |
| Route Clearance Interrogation System (RCIS) Type I |
| Route Clearance Interrogation System (RCIS) Type II |
| Route Clearance Mounted Detection & Marking |
| Route Clearance Mounted Explosive Hazards Survivability and Force Protection |
| Route Clearance Optic System |
| Route Clearance Vehicles Panther |
| Route Clearance Vehicles-Mine Protection Clearance Vehicle |
| Route Clearance Vehicles-Vehicle Mounted Mine Detection |
| Rucksack Portable UAS Pop |
| Rucksack Portable Unmanned Aircraft System |
| Sand Dog |
| Sapphire Detection System |
| Sarnoff fused color and thermal image camera |
| Saturn Arch |
| SCI Technologies TOCNET-G3 |
| Semi-Autonomous Tactical Squad Robot |
| Sense Through The Wall (STTW) |
| SENTINEL Enhanced Target Range Acq & Class |
| Sentinel Hawk |
| Serval |
| Shop Equipment, Contact Maintenance System |
| Sickle Stick 2.0 |
| Silicis 26-foot ISR balloon for robotic flight or tethered aerostat |
| SKYLARK I – Long Endurance (LE) UAS |
| Slingshot |
| Small Robot Standardization Effort |
| Small Tactical Multi- Payload Aerostatic System |
| Small Unit Support-IED Defeat (SUSI) |
| Small Unit Unmanned Aircraft System |
| Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) XM1216E1 |
| Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle IBCT Increment 1 |
| SOCOM Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) Version 1.1 |
| SOFCOAST MAKO ISR Manpack Balloon |
| Sparrow Sentry System for Vehicles – Portable |
| Speckles Unmanned Aircraft System |
| Speech to Speech Smart Phone |
| Spring |
| Standoff Suicide Bomber Detection System |
| Stingray |
| Strider |
| Subterranean Operations |
| Suite of Integrated Infrared Countermeasures |
| Supersonic Pulse-jet IED eXcavator |
| Sweat GUTR |
| Symphony CREW |
| Sync-Think Eye-Tracking Rapid-Attention Computation (Eye-TRAC) with 850 IR LED |
| Synthetic Aperture Radar/Ground Moving Target Indicator Payloads (SAR/GMTI) |
| Tactical – SIGINT Payload |
| Tactical Assured GPS Reference System |
| Tactical Reconnaissance And Counter-concealment Enabled Radar |
| Tactical UAS |
| Tactical Unmanned Ground System |
| Tactical Unmanned Ground System (TUGS IBCT Inc 2) |
| Talon 3B Engineer |
| TALON IV Engineer |
| TARIAN |
| Team Stove |
| Terrapin |
| TH-HYTEC |
| Threat Detection Fire Control System (Crosshairs 2) |
| Thru The Wall Radar |
| Towed Artillery Digitization Fire Control System |
| Trojan NexGEN |
| TROJAN SPIRIT LITE |
| Trojan SWARM |
| TUAS Shadow Simple Key Loader |
| Unattended Transient Acoustic MASINT System |
| Unmanned Aircraft System Class I |
| Unmanned Aircraft System Class I (UAS CL1 IBCT Inc 2) |
| Unmanned Aircraft System Live Training System |
| Unmanned Cargo/Logistic Resupply |
| Urban Unattended Ground Sensors IBCT Increment 1 |
| URSUS |
| VADER (Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar) |
| Vanguard |
| Vector Sensor |
| Vehicle 360 deg fused thermal and visual camera to auto track up to 10 objects |
| Vehicle Observation Sensor System (VOSS) on the Medium Mine Protection Vehicle |
| Vehicle Optics Sensor System on the MRAP BAE RG-33L |
| Vigilant Pursuit |
| Viper Strike |
| Warlock-DUKE V2 |
| Warlock-Duke V3 |
| Weaponized Reconnaissance Against Insurgents by Targeting HELLFIRE |
| Whistler |
| Wideband Remote Monitoring Sensor: AN/FSQ-234(v)1 |
| Wolfhound |
| Wolverine System |
| Zebra Imaging Tactical Digital Holograms (TDH) |
| Zion Bobcat |
