SPECIAL REPORT: Special Ops Community Chasing New Ground Mobility Systems
5/16/2019
By Jon Harper
Officials from U.S. Special Operations Command are pursuing new ground vehicles and enabling technologies to help commandos roll into battle.
More funding is expected for cutting-edge capabilities, noted Logan Kittinger, deputy program manager for the family of special operations vehicles.
“We’ve typically been focused only on incremental improvements to the vehicles … due to the budget,†he said at this year’s annual Tactical Wheeled Vehicles conference in Monterey, California, hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association. “But the budget is increasing for us in our ground mobility office, so we need to start moving away from incremental only approaches [and] start looking at game-changing technology.â€
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/5/16/special-report-special-ops-community-chasing-new-ground-mobility-systems
