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Marine Corps missile truck first to be produced with off-road autonomy
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Marine Corps missile truck first to be produced with off-road autonomy

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: January 13, 2025 4:51 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published January 13, 2025
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The Marine Corps has awarded Forterra a contract to integrate its autonomy package on the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires ground vehicle, the Pentagon’s first-ever production contract for off-road autonomous driving capability.

The company’s advanced stack and AutoDrive system gives the ROGUE Fires vehicle – built by Oshkosh Defense – off-road, self-driving technology in “nearly any environment,” which moves “beyond Leader-Follower capabilities,” Forterra said in a Jan. 13 statement. Leader-Follower technology uses a lead vehicle to guide other unmanned vehicles behind it.

The deal to integrate the technology comes after two ROGUE Fires Low-Rate Initial Production orders in fiscal 2025.

“By seamlessly integrating cutting-edge autonomous technologies with Oshkosh systems, we’re equipping the Marine Corps to strengthen sea denial capabilities, enhance operational agility, and maintain a decisive technological edge against evolving threats,” Pat Williams, Oshkosh Defense chief programs officer, said in the statement.

The Marines first awarded Oshkosh a contract to produce the unmanned missile launcher after a prototyping phase in September 2023 for $40 million.

The ROGUE Fires design removes the cab of the Oshkosh-made Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and tacks on a missile launcher that can be remotely fired. The Marine Corps paired the ROGUE Fires system with the Naval Strike Missile to create the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS. Oshkosh has said ROGUE Fires is payload agnostic.

Forterra is one of three companies also working directly with the Army’s Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team and Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems on autonomy capability along with Kodiak Robotics and Overland AI.

So far, the evaluations for autonomous behavior haven’t even been truly off-road, Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean, program executive officer for GCS, said last fall. “We’re talking trails and unimproved road conditions. Building an autonomy algorithm that can identify the entire range of things it might encounter is challenging because you have a pretty big data set.”

Jen Judson is an award-winning journalist covering land warfare for Defense News. She has also worked for Politico and Inside Defense. She holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kenyon College.

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