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VIDEO: MUTT War Robots Get Tested with Army’s Pacific Command

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Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning visited the Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative training site Tuesday, July 26, as part of his trip to U.S. Pacific Command.

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During the training initiative, which lasted more than two weeks, Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division tested and operated new robotic prototypes designed to allow them to do everything from gaining a bird’s eye view of the battlefield to moving assets by remote.

“There’s two things to dealing with emerging threats,” Secretary Fanning said. “(The first) is getting the right technology, acquiring it, building it, procuring it, but the second is actually getting it into the field, getting it into the hands of Soldiers.”

Soldiers operated unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Net Warrior Future Initiative, a small unit mission command system with ground and air asset control, and used unmanned ground vehicles like the Multipurpose Unmanned Tactical Transport (MUTT) vehicle to execute training scenarios.

Tollie Strode Jr., senior project officer at Maneuver Center of Excellence Maneuver Battle Lab, Fort Benning, Georgia, explained the overall importance of employing these innovative capabilities in the field. He said the initiative, called PACMAN-I, is a step in a process that started in 2014 at his lab.

“We got together and, looking at (Department of Defense) guidance and Army guidance, (we) began the process of learning how to fight in formations with robotics to do the things that you would expect those robotics to do — allow us to see further, allow us to shoot at targets …” he said.

“And then (we looked at how) to improve the survivability and the mobility of the force and the Soldiers that are fighting.”

Although the manned and unmanned prototypes can perform in combat operations, Strode emphasized that they have the potential to be just as effective in stability and support roles.

“When we go to a place where there may be the need for us to do reconnaissance type work in a disaster area … they’ll be able to use these systems that way,” he said. “That isn’t trying to find someone to shoot, that’s trying to find someone to save.”

First Lt. Zachary Short, 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th ID, said that his Soldiers familiarized themselves with the technology for two weeks before conducting practical exercises with them.

“The biggest thing that we need to understand is how the technology that we have at our disposal through this training can help us to be even better … and improve our ability to successfully complete the mission,” Short said.

Staff Sgt. Robert Ramsey and Spc. Cole Cumby had the chance to test the MUTT and found that it wasn’t difficult to operate.

“There are two different controls, one is used just by one hand and the other actually has a screen on it that controls the turret itself and the MUTT,” Cumby said. “I like working with it, there’s a lot of good things about it, and there are things I’d change …”

As the Soldiers experimented with the technology, they were recorded by engineers from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center and the Maneuver Center of Excellence. The engineers will draw on the solders’ experiences to refine the technology.

Secretary Fanning observed that collecting the soldiers’ feedback is a vital step toward the eventual adoption of the new technology.

“We need to be making sure we’re fielding new technology as quickly as we can,” he said. “It doesn’t do any good if we’re just investing in great technology if we don’t actually get it into the field for Soldiers.”

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