XM SPARTAN Innovative technology to fight and win tomorrows battles Pathway to the next generation...

XM SPARTAN Innovative technology to fight and win

tomorrows battles

Pathway to the next generation

Future Fighting Vehicle

Agenda

• Defining the Acquisition Strategy Immediate

Deliberate

• Developing the Plan

• Spartan Overview• Technology

• Tactics (SWARM)

• Path Forward

Army Strategic Planning GuidanceOur strategic intent is to modernize and equip the Total Army with equipment that is affordable, sustainable, and cost-effective

To achieve those strategic priorities the Army will focus on the following:

• Prioritize Soldier-centered modernization and procurement of proven technologies so that Soldiers have the best weapons, equipment and protection to accomplish every mission.

• Seek fundamental improvements to Soldier and unit system lethality, survivability, mobility, and network functionality to ensure that the American Soldier remains the most discriminately lethal force on the battlefield.

• Focus Science and Technology investment to maximize the potential of emerging game-changing land power technologies to ensure that

Army formations retain a decisive materiel edge and tactical overmatch

• Equip the Total Army to rapidly deploy, fight, sustain itself, and win against complex state and non-state threats in austere environments and rugged terrain .

Defining Acquisition Paths

UON

DeliberateJUON

REF

JCIDS

DoD 5000

POMImmediate

ECPSF-44

Requirement to Soldier Integration Path

INDUSTRY

Maze to Success

1. III MBT(Abrams replacement)2. Future Infantry Fighting Vehicle(Heavy IFV to replace Bradley)3. Combat Mobility Vehicle(M728 Engineer vehicle replacement)4. LOSAT vehicle5. Advanced Field Artillery System(became Crusader and then Rummy got to it)6. Field Artillery Resupply Vehicle(AFAS partner, no AFAS, no FARV)These 6 vehicles were to use common chassis and components. They are the descendants of an even earlier and bigger study, Armored Family of Vehicles.7. Future Armor Resupply System(a resupply vehicle for the Block III)8. M8 Armored Gun System(so close!)9. Future Combat System-1997 version(son of Block III, and not a very good offshoot IMO, not heavy enough)10. Future Infantry Vehicle(a Bradley weight class replacement for the M2)11. Future Scout and Cavalry System(a purpose designed scout/cav vehicle in partnership with the UK, killed for FCS part 2)12. M4 C2V(about 25 built and used in OIF-worked too well?)13. XM5 Electronic Fighting Vehicle System14. ADATS vehicle(the USArmy don't need no stinkin' Air Defense!)15. DIVAD(I know it came before ADATS-sorry I almost forgot it)16. FCS-2000 version(a family of manned and unmanned AFVs, light weight, heavy on sensors, and now dead as Lincoln)

Failure to Launch

Length: 18.5Width: 9.0Height: 8.6Weight: 0.0



OEF/OIF Requirements

• IEDs• EFPs• RPGs• Restrictive Terrain• Equipment




OEF/OIF Requirement Solutions

• Make the Army’s operational tenets and strategic vision the Pillars of Spartan development

• Incorporate OEF/OIF Lessons Learned• Embrace Disruptive Technology to address Gaps • Enable Technology to change Doctrine

Developing the Plan

Spartan Initiatives

• Adaptive Modular Weapons System• Lightweight Standardized Platform Chassis• Enhanced situational awareness • Ease of logistical support, innovative adaptive trailer

technology• SWARM tactics enable smaller crews the ability to fight

multiple weapon systems with less equipment when deployed.

• Increased Functionality– Mesh Communications– Reconnaissance / Surveillance– Modular Weapons– Autonomous Operations

TAILORABLE

SCALABLE

RESPONSIVE

The XM Spartan: is a lightweight, highly mobile, tracked vehicle, equipped with an Adaptive Modular Weapons

System (AMWS) and a Modular Protective Control Capsule (MPCC) capable of operating across the full spectrum of

operations as a dispersed, networked force enabling tactics (Swarm) to fight and win tomorrows battles. The Spartan is

envisioned to transition to a fully networked unmanned platform.

Spartan Overview

Spartan Concept Design

Responsive, Tailorable and Scalable

A high speed, lightweight, repairable track that thatches turf and cultivates soil with more than twice the tension and traction of current products.

Suspensions that react to deflection with increased track tension A hinged, hydraulic powered frame, providing for levering, track angle

control and spin-turns. Left and right brakes for maneuvering and Ackerman type steering for

guidance.



Transitioning Passive Defense into Active Solutions


Mitigate the Launch, Acceleration, Jump Height and slam down effects of IEDs by incorporating TenCates ABDS

Incorporate a Active Protection System to provide stand off from RPG, ATGM and Recoilless Rocket Threats

Mobility = Survivability

A doctrine based on swarming requires revolutionary changes in equipment and organization.

Spartan technology possesses critical functions to enable swarm: 1. Superior Situational Awareness2. Elusiveness (mobility and/or

concealment)3. Direct and/or indirect standoff fire

capability.

“A radical departure from existing doctrine, a doctrine of swarming would require many issues to be worked out regarding tactics, logistics, command, and organization. Implementing such radical change, even on just a portion of U.S. ground forces, will require a careful yet bold plan that includes further research, gaming and simulation, and unit exercises before a prototypical swarming force is feasible.”

Technology to Enable SWARMResponsive, Tailorable and Scalable

• Provides the mission commander increase capabilities to exploit tactical opportunities

• Fighting and winning in Complex terrain

• Swarm is the deliberate deployment of “clusters” of networked units, largely unseen and undetectable, but able to congeal and strike decisively anywhere in the battlespace, with no limitation imposed by lines or fronts.

• Swarm holds out the possibility of creating a new kind of force-multiplying effect, whereby the skillful blending of the technological, organizational, tactical and information operations enables the deployment of “clusters of shooters” to engage at more locations, with greater frequency, with a higher level of lethality, and are sustained throughout the fight.

• The end state of this force-multiplying effect is that a relatively small swarm outperforms/defeats an equal or larger force. The Swarm concepts is consistent with the philosophy of Mission Command.

From “Swarming on the Battlefield: Past, Present, and Future” RAND Report, 2000.

Technology to Enable SWARMResponsive, Tailorable and Scalable

Path Forward

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