A Summary on the 2018 Update to Lightweight Combat Vehicle S and T Campaign

The need of the Army to be more lethal, expeditionary, and agile, with greater capability to conduct operations that are decentralized, distributed, and integrated is as critical today as ever. The impact of weight on its ability to achieve a combat vehicle force with smaller deployment, employment and sustainment footprints is a well-recognized and accepted fact. Threats continue to grow at a fast pace, and advanced capabilities like Active Protection Systems are being added to combat vehicles to counter them. Today, there is an urgent need to add performance at the lightest weight possible, as well as find weight reduction opportunities elsewhere in the vehicle to counter the weight added by these new countermeasures. Lightweighting is a cross-cutting competency across all of the Armys six modernization priorities, including the Next Generation Combat Vehicles objectives in close combat capabilities in manned, unmanned and optionally-manned variants, and ability to fight and win against any foe.