Recap | Innovation OuTreAch 2019
The Macomb Regional PTAC and CCDC's Ground Vehicle Systems Center Acquisition Management Office (AMO) presented nine of the leading OTA's in the defense space today. The event was held at Macomb Community College on June 5th, 2019 and consisted of representatives from NAMC, C5, CEED, TREX, ATI (consortium manager for DOTC, VLC, Spectrum) and DATC. Here are the slides from that event.
New Members | May 2019
A warm welcome to the 5 organizations that joined NAMC in May 2019.
New Members | April 2019
A warm welcome to the 14 organizations that joined NAMC in April 2019.
NAMC in the News | Army Times Article
These soldiers laid out battlefield problems they hope robots can fix
By: Todd South, Army Times, October 23, 2018
Soldiers from a variety of backgrounds recently met with a national consortium on ground vehicles to find out what problems that bedevil soldiers might be fixed by robots or autonomous solutions.
Election | NAMC FY19 Officers and Directors
The NAMC Board of Directors has elected from among the elected members of the Board, the following persons as Officers for a 2-year Term to end in September 2020.
SMET | Army Times Article
By November, two Army infantry brigade combat teams and a not-yet-disclosed Marine unit will be testing four variants of a load-bearing robot vehicle for the next year.
NAMC BOD Elects New Leadership
The National Advanced Mobility Consortium Board of Directors (BOD) announced they have elected Mr. Michael Ladika of Southwest Research Institute and Mr. Kevin Mulrenin of Pratt & Miller Engineering to serve as President and Vice-President (respectively) of the BOD.
Melita to Lead NAMC
The National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) announced today that they have hired Mr. Anthony Melita as Executive Director of the manned and unmanned ground vehicle focused consortium.
RTC Expands to become NAMC
The Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC) today announced that it will now be known as the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) after entering into a section 845 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. The new OTA greatly expands upon the scope and scale of the current OTA that the RTC was awarded in May 2008 for ground robotics technology. The new OTA covers the entire range of ground systems technologies for manned and unmanned vehicle and robotics systems.