Army to perform limited test of UBT/Rheinmetall vehicle APS

By Ashley Tressel / November 14, 2019 at 3:36 PM
The Army recently awarded Unified Business Technologies an other transaction agreement to further test its “StrikeShield” vehicle active protection system, which will inform the service’s APS effort for the Stryker vehicle. UBT and Rheinmetall partnered on the StrikeShield APS as part of the competition for the APS that will eventually go on the Stryker, which has yet to be determined. Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, military deputy to the Army acquisition executive, told Congress in April the service needed to conduct...

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