Overview
- AM General unveiled the driverless logistics vehicle at the AUSA Global Force show in Huntsville on Tuesday.
- The platform is built to move supplies between Brigade Support Areas and dispersed forward units without a crew to cut risk to soldiers.
- The vehicle runs a new turbocharged 6.5-liter V8 rated at about 250 horsepower and over 550 pound-feet, which AM General plans to reuse across future HUMVEE variants.
- A reconfigurable cargo deck, a wireless remote T-boom crane, and an L-track tie-down system support fast load handling, and the show model carried Swarmbotics AI’s FireAnt mini-UGV to demonstrate plug-in payloads.
- Carnegie Robotics provides the autonomy stack and Textron Systems the control layer, and a test article is in trials as the team prepares for an Army request for proposals expected later this year following recent CPE Mission Autonomy outreach on common architectures.