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National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Military Ponders Future of Robotic Cargo Movers The K-MAX unmanned helicopter was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 to haul cargo in and out of warzones. It allowed U.S. forces to cut ground convoys that were vulnerable to roadside bombs.
National Defense July 2014 Dan Parsons	Army Wants Trucks to Drive Without Troops The Army wants to retrofit a portion of its tactical wheeled vehicle fleet with robotic brains so that unmanned trucks, not troops, are put in harm's way during resupply and route clearance missions.
National Defense June 2015 Allyson Versprille	Army Still Determining Best Use for Driverless Vehicles The Army's effort to introduce unmanned vehicles into its inventory has slowed as the service's budget tightens and questions remain on how the technology will be used.
National Defense November 2009 Grace V. Jean	Robotic Humvees Resupply Troops Downrange The Defense Department is pushing hard for the development of fully autonomous robots that can replenish supplies, evacuate casualties and even search for explosives.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Army to Integrate Ground Robots Into Forces After years of using rapidly fielded, but temporary ground robots in its forces, the Army will soon roll out plans to make them a permanent part of its arsenal.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean	What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition.
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons	Budgets Permitting, Marines Could Be Fighting Alongside Robots by 2020s Within five years, Marines could head into battle alongside autonomous robotic trucks carrying water, ammunition and other gear.
National Defense February 2007 Harold Kennedy	Army, Marines to Acquire 50,000 New Trucks to Replace Humvees A fistful of defense companies will be vying to win a contract to develop a replacement for the humvee -- the Army and Marine Corps' light, all-terrain truck.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	The time has come for military ground robots Military robots for ground applications are coming into their own as U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) leaders are increasing their reliance on unmanned ground vehicles.
National Defense October 2012 Dan Parsons	Marines Counting on Robots to Keep Them Out of Harm's Way Marine Corps researchers are on the constant lookout for technologies that can keep ground troops out of harm's way or make their tough jobs easier. Autonomous robots -- on land, sea and in the air -- are increasingly seen as an end to that means.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	Navigation System Advances Army's Pursuit of Unmanned Vehicles The Army will begin a series of tests in October that could demonstrate whether ground combat robots can find their way autonomously in the battlefield.
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean	Move Over Fido: Marines' New Best Friend Could be A Robotic 'Mule' Marine officials want to employ ground robots as a means to reduce casualties from roadside bombs and to lighten the loads on troops.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	And in This Corner... The Crusher! Today's unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are outfitted with the latest technology, making them smart, tough, and well armed.
National Defense June 2010 Stew Magnuson	Efforts to Field New Kinds of Ground Robots Have Had Little Success Their predicted influx into the battlefield has stalled. That's not to say that research into myriad applications hasn't continued. But so far, the experiments have not made the transition to the current fights.
National Defense August 2011 Stew Magnuson	Army, Car Makers Push Ahead With Driverless Vehicle Research When it comes to concepts for vehicles that can drive themselves on highways or city streets, the military and automakers have been working on similar paths for several years.
National Defense August 2012 Eric Beidel	Search Continues For Driverless Convoy Vehicles The Pentagon has hit some stumbling blocks in its efforts to develop unmanned vehicles, but officials still have hopes of deploying a range of systems that can trick enemy fighters and keep troops safe from improvised explosive devices.
National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Pushes Truck Technology Forward The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is one of the most hotly competed contracts currently up for grabs in the U.S. defense market.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Visionaries Foresee Radically Different Military Vehicles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Adaptive Vehicle Make program seeks to reinvent the way vehicles are designed and built. It is looking to revamp and speed up the entire acquisition process, from the drawing board to the assembly line.
National Defense February 2010 Erwin, Magnuson & Jean	Army, Marines Mull Over Options to Modernize Truck Fleets The Defense Department has been on a truck-buying spree for the past several years, and the demand will remain high for some time. But truck manufacturers don't expect the good times to last too much longer
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	The Next Humvee: Army, Marines Weigh Options The Army and Marine Corps may decide as early as May 2007 to begin searching for a new vehicle that would replace the ubiquitous Humvee.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Warfare by Remote Control A long-awaited robotic security system--capable of detecting intruders, assessing their intentions, communicating their location and even stopping them in their tracks--will be evaluated next month at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev.
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel	Military Provides Little Clarity For Future of Truck Fleets As wars end and budgets tighten, the Pentagon has begun trying to make sense of the spending spree that was the past decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John Keller	Vetronics of the Future Combat System The electronic and optoelectronic technologies of the future battlefield will help provide unprecedented situational awareness and maneuver capability to U.S. and allied ground troops.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations.
National Defense April 2008 Grace V. Jean	Move over MRAP: New Light Tactical Vehicles are Coming Joint light tactical vehicles are being designed to maneuver through the narrow alleyways and small streets in Iraq.
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failure To Field The Right Robots Costs Lives, General Says The lives of 122 soldiers would have been saved if the right robots had been in place, said the commanding general of the Army's 3rd Armored Corps, at a recent industry conference.
National Defense February 2008 Stew Magnuson	Army Tests `Hands-Free' Driving for Troop Protection The Army is in the process of testing a new system to allow drivers in truck convoys to keep their hands off steering wheels and their eyes open to spot roadside threats.
National Defense December 2010 Stew Magnuson	Technologists Make Progress On Autonomous Ground Robots Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute used eBay as inspiration when they were searching for ways to make unmanned aerial and ground robots work autonomously to search for targets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Smaller Sensors Make Unmanned Vehicles Smarter Army researchers are now developing another part of FCS-an armed robotic vehicle (ARV) that uses autonomous sensors and weapons to minimize soldiers' battlefield exposure.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Vendors Convene in the Desert for Army `Rodeo' Over the course of five days, vendors displayed everything from relatively low-tech ways to hitch trailers to trucks to on-board computers and radars that autonomously steer 12-ton trucks.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Next-Generation Humvee Faces Delays, Budget Crunch The Army and Marine Corps are expected to delay an industry competition to design and build a new family of light trucks to replace aging humvees.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	No Stranger to Scrutiny, New Truck Program Forges Ahead The Army and Marine Corps announced contract awards for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the marquee truck program, which is supposed to give troops greater off-road mobility than a Humvee.
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel	New Requirements, Lower Cost Breathe New Life Into JLTV Though it appeared doomed just months ago, the Army and Marine Corps' plan to replace aging Humvees with a new off-road vehicle may have regained its footing at least for another year.
National Defense October 2006 Stew Magnuson	Truck Manufacturers Show Their Wares The vehicle demonstration is designed to speed up the notoriously slow acquisition process by ensuring that the Army and Marines don't ask for features that contractors can't deliver or would take years to develop.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames	Army's Next-Generation Humvee Will Use Networked Vetronics In a departure from using trucks that are simple workhorses, Army leaders have required that each vehicle be packed with electronics.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Plans to Network Ground Robots and Unmanned Aircraft Army researchers are working on a program that would pair autonomous unmanned aircraft with ground robots.
National Defense September 2006 Harold Kennedy	Marines Face Steep Cuts to Expeditionary Vehicle The Office of Naval Research plans to award contracts worth as much as $2.5 million for conceptual designs for a family of joint light tactical vehicles (JLTV) that would replace the thin-skinned, 20-year-old humvee.
National Defense October 2013 Dan Parsons	Commitment to Swimming Vehicle Throws Off Marines' Tight Modernization Schedule As with other large vehicle procurement programs, Congress is slowly draining off funding from the Amphibious Combat Vehicle as Marine Corps officials continue to push off a decision on how it will develop it.
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson	Marine Corps R&D Focuses on Urban Scenarios That the Marine Corps would like to return to its expeditionary, sea-based roots after serving the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known.
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson	The MRAP: Reuse, Recycle, Reduce The Army in November awarded BAE Systems a $37.6 million contract to provide the spare parts and kits needed to convert 250 Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles into trucks for bomb disposal teams.
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Erik Sofge	America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is one of many robots being developed for combat.
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron	Marine Gladiator Charges Ahead After splitting from a joint ground robotics program with the U.S. Army, the Marines decided to build their own unmanned combat vehicle, called the Gladiator.
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Next-Generation Robots: Bigger and Better? The exploits of bomb-sniffing robots in Iraq and Afghanistan have solidified their role as useful combat tools, but the technology needs to be pushed much further, say robot designers and engineers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	FCS is Coming to Fruition Industry players advance vehicle electronics in an effort to put Future Combat Systems in the hands of current-force soldiers sooner than expected.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	Army May Slow Down Procurement of New Light Reconnaissance Vehicle The Army is looking to procure a new scout vehicle for infantry units. But funding constraints and other priorities could hold the project back as the service pushes forward with its modernization plans.