Encl_1_-_AEWE_2020_Experiment_Focus_Areas_v6Aug18.docx

For Official Use Only AEWE 2020 Experiment Focus Areas

For tactical small units (company and below), what new concepts and capabilities can improve:

1. Lethality

· Rifle and Machine Gun Fire Control

· Optics

· Counter-Defilade Target Solutions

· 40 mm Munitions

· Candidate Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle

· Non-lethal Systems

· Head’s Up Display

· Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) Fires & Sensors

- Deliver HE/Smoke/Illumination 300-1000m

· Enhanced Body Armor

· Exo-skeleton Frame Support

· Small Satellites for ISR

· Rifle coincidence firing systems against ground/UAS

· Heterogeneous Fire Control

· Enhance Integrated Sensor Architecture

· Combat Crewman Enhanced Situational Awareness

2. Mission Command

· Subterranean Navigation

· Low Probability of Detection Communication & Electronic Counter-Counter Measures

· Shared Full Motion Video

· Radio Waveforms

· UAS Launch & Recovery From Vehicles

· Dismounted Solutions for Vehicle Crewman

· Cyber Attack Detection

· High Altitude Capabilities (PNT & BLOS)

· Navigation Warfare

· Subterranean Navigation

· See around corner sensor technology

· Sub-T Target acquisition

· Biometric Enemy/Threat Detection

3. Mobility

· Combat Vehicles

· Robotics, Ground/Air

· Soldier Load Solutions

· All-Terrain Vehicles

· Transport for Abrams Tank

· Autonomous Resupply

· Advanced Light Vehicles

4. Survivability

· Multi-Spectrum Camouflage

- Decoy and Deception

· Active Vehicle Protection

· Surveillance Denial

· Counter UAS Systems

· Threat Detection

· Electromagnetic Signals Detection

· Command Posts

· CBRNE Detection & Decontamination

· Injury Treatment & Evacuation

· C-UAS

· Threat Detection

· Uniform Individual Protective Ensemble (UIPE) with physical monitor

5. Sustainment

· Improved Batteries

· Alternate Fuels

· Hydration Systems

· Field Rations & Nutrition

· Aerial Resupply

· Robotic Resupply

· Automation of Soldier Tasks

· Reduced Power Demand

· Bio Monitors

6. Team and Soldier performance through physical, cognitive and social training

· Training Aids

· Pyrotechnic Devices & Simulators

· Mental Resilience Training, Physical Fitness Injury Prevention and Assessments

· Enhanced Augmented Reality / Neuro-stimulation

· Distance Learning on Mobile Devices

· Cultural & Regional Social Expertise Training

· Opposition based, stressed, transitional training

· Active Decoy Systems

· Full Spectrum Simulations

· Equipment failure/enhancement reporting applications

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