Accelerating Autonomous Vehicle Technology for the DoD

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (April 3, 2024) — Ground warfare is fast, complex, and lethal. As the DoD’s land warfare component, the U.S. Army needs to find a way to safely conduct reconnaissance and related high-risk tasks in these environments. Substantial technical breakthroughs in robotics and self-driving vehicles are enabling the use of autonomous systems to support high-risk missions and reduce risk for combat troops in military operations. 

The U.S. Army has partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype autonomous software and processes to adapt uncrewed vehicle technology to a range of diverse and challenging military environments. The Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways (GVAP) project will prototype software for the navigation of uncrewed vehicles by fusing data from multiple sensors and allow for teleoperations of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). Additionally, the project will provide a technical pipeline to continue rapid modeling, testing, evaluation, development, and deployment of autonomous features as they become commercially-available. 

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