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AM General Debuts Autonomous Logistics UGV at AUSA Global Force

The debut signals industry moves toward Army buys of autonomous resupply vehicles later this year.

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Overview

  • AM General unveiled the driverless logistics vehicle at the AUSA Global Force show in Huntsville on Tuesday.
  • The platform is built to move supplies between Brigade Support Areas and dispersed forward units without a crew to cut risk to soldiers.
  • The vehicle runs a new turbocharged 6.5-liter V8 rated at about 250 horsepower and over 550 pound-feet, which AM General plans to reuse across future HUMVEE variants.
  • A reconfigurable cargo deck, a wireless remote T-boom crane, and an L-track tie-down system support fast load handling, and the show model carried Swarmbotics AI’s FireAnt mini-UGV to demonstrate plug-in payloads.
  • Carnegie Robotics provides the autonomy stack and Textron Systems the control layer, and a test article is in trials as the team prepares for an Army request for proposals expected later this year following recent CPE Mission Autonomy outreach on common architectures.