BAE Systems Debuts iFighting® for Combat Vehicles at Eurosatory
June 11 2018 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
BAE Systems will present a new solution for addressing the
challenge of battlefield situational awareness at the 2018
Eurosatory trade show in Paris this week. Called iFighting®, the
technology is designed to optimize vehicle and crew performance by
harnessing data to enable faster decision-making in combat.
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BAE Systems’ new solution for addressing
the challenge of battlefield situational awareness is called
iFighting®, a concept that fuses together data from different
systems within a combat vehicle, such as the CV90 MkIV, to filter
through and prioritize the most critical information. (Photo: BAE
Systems)
BAE Systems will be displaying the latest version of the CV90
Infantry Fighting Vehicle, known as the MkIV, integrated with
iFighting®. The MkIV, the fifth generation CV90, features
advancements in speed, mobility, and electronics, and is being
offered to the Czech Republic to replace its aging fleet of
infantry fighting vehicles.
Based on technology integrated by BAE Systems, the iFighting®
concept fuses together data from different systems within the
vehicle to filter through and prioritize the most critical
information. This allows the crew to make quicker and more
effective decisions to improve overall performance on the
battlefield.
"As we roll out new technology, we know that adding displays and
panels to combat vehicles could potentially distract crews in an
already-complex combat environment. The key was finding a way to
help improve situational awareness and combat efficiency without
adding to the crews’ cognitive workload, and we believe we have
done that with iFighting®," said Tommy Gustafsson-Rask, vice
present and general manager of BAE Systems’ Hägglunds business,
which designed and built the new CV90 MkIV. "iFighting® is not a
product or a system. It is the core of system integration for the
future armored vehicle."
The CV90 MkIV will also have the fourth generation Electronic
Architecture compatible with NATO-standard Generic Vehicle
Architecture (NGVA), which allows crews to manage large amounts of
live-stream data and is interoperable within the NATO Alliance.
This step change will enable the introduction of autonomous crew
support, machine-learning algorithms — including artificial
intelligence capabilities — and augmented reality with the support
of 3D map data to enable future adoption and growth.
"With advanced electronics, iFighting® creates a more
combat-effective system by reducing the amount of information the
soldier needs to process," said Mikael Segerman, BAE Systems
Hägglunds director for the Czech Republic. "This results in
increased situational awareness to aid decision-making on the
complex battlefield. iFighting® ultimately helps to improve the
performance of an inexperienced crew, as well as amplifying that of
an experienced team."
BAE Systems has partnered with several Czech companies to offer
the CV90 MkIV to the Czech Army. The MkIV was unveiled earlier this
year as the latest version of the combat-proven CV90, which is in
service with numerous European nations.
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