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. 

By mid-2004, it had become apparent that a suitable off-the-shelf soldier combat system was unlikely either to be developed or to be available from the... 

Curtis, N. J. (1995). Possible Methodologies for the Analysis of the Soldier Combat System Operations Research Support to Project WUNDURRA. Technical Report DSTO-TR-0148, DSTO, Australia, p. 1. 

Goyne, D., Parton, R, Oakley, C. and Kind, C. (2001). Land 125 Soldier Combat System - Project Wundurra. Paper presented at the LAND 125 Soldier Combat System Symposium, DSTO Edinburgh, SA, 18-20 March. 

Hobbs, W. and Curtis, N. J. (1998). Field experiments in the analysis of the Soldier Combat System. In 24th Meeting of the Quadripartite Working Group Army Operational Research. Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Austraha. 

Sparks E. (2008). Soldier Combat System Land 125 High Level Architecture, Cranfield University, UK, 6 August. 

Very early on, the principal DSTO researchers realised they needed a new way of looking at this problem and came up with iimovative ways to classify the S T and ways to measure the effect on the subject. The analysis was more innovative than the technology (gadgets) at that stage. A robust experimental methodology was needed in order to be able to assess the soldier as part of the combat system, to identify any key technology areas that would enhance future combat effectiveness and to populate the developed computer war games. 

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. 

The current medical system to support the U.S. Army at war is a continuum from the forward line of troops through the continental United States it serves as a primary source of trained replacements during the early stages of a major conflict. The system is designed to optimize the return to duty of the maximum number of trained combat soldiers at the lowest possible echelon. Far-forward stabilization helps to maintain the physiology of injured soldiers who are unlikely to return to duty and allows for their rapid evacuation from the battlefield without needless sacrifice of life or function. 

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