Key FCS Technology Evaluator Sees Sensors, NLOS-LS as Key Multipliers

By Daniel Wasserbly / December 31, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The pairing of sensors with a new concept for packaging and launching rockets promises to be one of the most significant innovations for the ground force spawned by the Army's Future Combat System (FCS), according to a key Army FCS technology evaluator. Urban and tactical unmanned ground sensors relaying information through networking kits retrofitted in vehicles is "the genesis of increasing and enhancing situational awareness," Col. Emmett Schaill, commander of the Army Evaluation Task Force, told Inside the Army during...

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