Establishment of a Center for Defense Robotics

A document presents an overview of the recently established Joint Center for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (JC-UGV), located at the Army’s Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. The JC-UGV is intended to become the central facility for managing all phases of the life cycles of military robotic ground vehicles: from concept; through research and development, acquisition, and sustainment; to the end of life. The JC-UGV is also intended to facilitate the move of the Robotic Systems Joint Program Office (RS-JPO) from Huntsville, Alabama to the Detroit Arsenal as part of a consolidation of military development and acquisition of all ground vehicles. An important part of the mission of the JC-UGV is to provide a system- integration laboratory that will include both robotic hardware and a distributed computational-simulation environment that will enable researchers and developers in the RS-JPO, industry, and academia to collaborate to solve complex problems. In addition to describing the aforementioned developments in detail, the document describes the organizational structure of the JC-UGV, discusses the role of the JC-UGV as one of several military organizations oriented toward lifecycle management, and summarizes JC-UGV university outreach, industry outreach, and pilot programs.

This work was done by Jim Overholt and David Thomas of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command for the Army Research Laboratory.

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