DARPA seeks proposals for program to enhance dismounted squads

By Jordana Mishory / May 12, 2016 at 9:00 AM
The Pentagon's advanced research agency is seeking industry's input for a program that would help maximize the performance of dismounted squads in today's complex, multidomain battlefields. In a broad agency announcement released May 6, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency calls for industry to submit ideas for the Squad X Experimentation program, which seeks to "design, develop, integrate and validate system prototypes that enable next-generation combined arms for the dismounted squad." "The resulting Squad X systems will maximize squad performance...

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