Integrated soldier combat system

Key words capability development. Integrated Soldier Combat System,... 

This concept demonstrator, designed specifically to cater for the Australian Army s needs, eventually became the Soldier Combat System Test-Bed (SCSTB), which provided not only all of the expected functionality of an Integrated Soldier... 

In 1998, DSTO supported the Project Definition Study (PDS) (Phase 2) for Land 125 (Hobbs and Chalmers, 2003) to further refine the project scope and to develop the supporting data to allow higher-level cost-benefit tradeoffs to be made. The DSTO recommendation in 1998 was not to acquire an Integrated Soldier System, as the technology was not considered sufficiently advanced. The report proposed a preferred path for SCS development as an incremental development involving a number of model-test-model cycles in order to fully understand the requirements for an optimised soldier combat system prior to Phase 3 of the project. 

In 2003, the United States initiated the Future Combat Systems (PCS) program, which is the largest and most ambitious planned acquisition program in the US Army s history. This PCS system covers almost every field application, as shown in Pigure 16.11, and every field is based on the use of an advanced energy storage system, so far mostly lithium-ion batteries. These applications include satellites, drones, stealth aircraft, UAVs, warships, aircraft carriers, AUVs, and integrated battle systems for individual soldiers. 

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