Army To Keep Half Its Ground Robots, Divest The Rest

By Jen Judson / February 12, 2013 at 8:06 PM
After years of rapidly procuring a plethora of ground robots to help soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has determined it will keep approximately half of what it has purchased while divesting the other half, according to the Army's G-8 force development director. Carving a path forward for the systems, the Army has "completed the analysis to determine which of these systems will have useful life. We think that number is about 2,700. Older systems that will be divested,...

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