(Amerika) Streitkräfte der USA - allg. Sammelthread

[Quintus Fabius]

Die verbliebenen M113 (GAAAVVVVIIIINNNN !!!!! Yeah !!!) sollen jetzt durch das AMPV beschleunigt abgelöst werden:

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As the U.S. Army replaces its aging fleet of armored personnel carriers, Picatinny Arsenal is playing a crucial role in ensuring that the software for the new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, or AMPV, meets rigid standards of performance.

The AMPV is a replacement for many of the M113 armored personnel carriers in the coming years.

In 2007, the M113 program was terminated, with Army officials saying the decision was "due to inadequate force protection, its inability to incorporate future technologies due to maximized size, weight, power, and cooling, and ability to keep pace and fight" within the Army's armored brigade combat team fleet.

"The AMPV is anticipated to satisfy critical missions necessary to tackle ground combat situations alongside the ABCT [Armored Brigade Combat Team] fleet," Army officials said.

In 2014, the Program Manager Armored Multi-Purpose Personnel Vehicle, hired the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny to perform a software quality and reliability effort on the AMPV program to support product assurance and test (PA&T).

The work is being performed by engineers at the center's Quality Engineering and Systems Assurance (QESA) Directorate.

"ARDEC is certainly leading in the robust software development processes, specialty engineering discipline such as software quality, reliability and safety and CMMI Level 5 organization," said Gagan Singh, Lead Software Quality Engineer supporting PM AMPV PA&T.

Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, is a process-improvement training and appraisal program and service, and is required by many DOD and U.S. government contracts, especially in software development.

Software is playing a greater role in achieving U.S. Army capabilities in modern weapon systems. It is vital to deploy reliable software for weapon systems to be effective.

The AMPV, with 78 percent more space and two, 400-amp generators, would include mortar carrier, mission command, general purpose, medical evacuation and medical treatment variants, all on a similar chassis.

Hab da einen Vorschlag für den Namen und ein Konzept für die weitere Verwendung des AMPV....