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The Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency awarded four $10 million concept design
agreements for the service's Future Combat
System (FCS) to teams led by The Boeing company (which
includes Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann), Raytheon,
Science Applications International Corp., and TRW. The
FCS program is intended to replace the Army's current
fleet of General Dynamics M1 tanks, United Defense M2
and M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and other armored
vehicles starting in 2012. The main purpose of the
initial design concept effort will be to identify,
consider and evaluate the various technologies that
can be applied to the FCS. These include the areas of
lethality, propulsion, mobility, survivability,
robotics, and command, control, communications,
computers, intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance, with the aim of a development program
to start in 2006.
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