It's equipped to assist digital mission command with increased protection, power and cooling capabilities, and providing room for growth for future command, control, communications and computer capabilities.
It's set to play a significant role in the Army's ABCT Network Modernization Strategy, according to the release. The Mission Command vehicle variant will be the first vehicle delivered. The Army requested $193 million for the program in the fiscal 2021 budget, compared to the $445 million the service budgeted in fiscal 2020 and the $673 million the program received the previous year. The program suffered funding cuts as the Army has searched for savings across all of its programs to fund its future modernization effort. Then COVID-19 resulted in the delivery being delayed through August, according to Defense News. First, manufacturing problems caused BAE to delay the vehicles' delivery from March until July.
The AMPV program has suffered from multiple delays. "The AMPV is designed to meet the Army's missions for the Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCT) and lay the foundation for the future of the battlefield," Sheehy said in the release.
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