Army cooking up capability-based robotics requirements doc

By Dominic Minadeo / August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Army technology leaders are planning to release a document to industry designed to spur innovation around autonomous systems, a senior leader announced today. The service’s Futures and Concepts Center is awaiting approval to put out what it calls a characteristics of need statement, a type of solicitation that marks a “fundamental change” in how the Army writes up requirements, David Meyer, director of Futures Integration for the FCC, said today. The solicitation is “pending final signature but basically complete,” he...

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