Industry has concerns about the Army’s ground robot plans
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“I think [industry has] the challenge of understanding what the demand signal is, and then again where to put their dollars," Warren Sponsler, the COO of NAMC, said in an interview.
The new concept has sent personnel from Cyber Defense Command at Fort Meade to the Pacific theater.
"The CB90CX is designed for uncrewed operations from the outset," Anders Hellman, head of Saab’s business unit in Docksta, told Breaking Defense.
The purchase, arranged via a government-to-government agreement between Greece and Portugal, covers three KC-390 aircraft with options for up to six manufactured by Brazilian planemaker Embraer.
The two companies plan to team up on “design for manufacturability, production planning, supply chain optimization, and ultimately building Lifter aircraft at scale."
Reducing America’s military footprint in Europe may seem fiscally prudent, but relocating troops and giving up overseas bases could leave US taxpayers with a much bigger bill.
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