Initial integration of the Modular Active Protection System soft-kill demonstrator was completed in December with full-system demonstrations on the Abrams tank anticipated in November to December 2017, according to an industry official. Steven Botwinik, fire control advanced programs director at Lockheed Martin, said April 6 the "whole idea" of the MAPS program "is to build essentially a backbone, or a framework, by which we can rapidly integrate sensors and countermeasures to protect armored vehicles to the whole family of the...
