US Army selects BAE Systems to develop key technologies

摘要

BAE Systems has been awarded multiple contracts from the US Army to develop key technologies for the Advanced Teaming Demonstration Programme (A-Team). The company was the only one to be awarded contracts for three of the program's four focus areas, which are designed to advance manned and unmanned teaming (MUM-T) capabilities that are expected to be critical components in the US Army's 'Future Vertical Lift' (FVL) programme. In order to 'combat the increasingly complex, contested, and communication-denied battlespace presented by near-peer adversaries', the US Army developed the A-Team programme to create an automated system to 'offload the cognitive burden of pilots while enabling them to command swarms of unmanned aircraft'.