据Axios率先获悉的一份备忘录显示,美国陆军正着手组建一个新的自主系统指挥部,并任命一名采购主管,以加快智能装备的采购与列装工作。
The U.S. Army is creating a new autonomous systems command and appointing an acquisition executive to prioritize buying and fielding smart machinery, according to a memo first seen by Axios.
此举意义重大:上述指令由代理陆军部长亚当·特莱下达,而就在一天前,国防部长皮特·赫格斯eth公布了名为“Meridian”和“Agincourt”的两个项目,均旨在推动作战方式的机器人化转型。
Why it matters: Directions to do so come from acting service Secretary Adam Telle and were issued a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the Meridian and Agincourt projects, both focused on the robotized future of warfare.
特莱向Axios表示:“赫格斯eth明确指出:我们必须打破阻碍现代化发展的官僚惰性。”
Hegseth "made it clear: We are done with the bureaucratic inertia holding back modernization," Telle told Axios.
具体举措:这份题为《陆军自主化发展计划》的备忘录提出了多项要求:
Zoom in: The Thursday memo, titled "Army Autonomous Initiatives," includes several directives:
- 组建陆军未来与自主系统指挥部(FASCOM)。
Establish Army Futures and Autonomous Systems Command, or FASCOM.
- 在包括航空、装甲兵、后勤及训练在内的至少六个兵种中,开展自主作战力量建设,以形成与之匹配的编制结构。
Conduct "autonomous force development to create force structure aligning autonomous capability" in at least six service formations, including aviation, armor, sustainment and training.
- 指定一名专门负责自主化装备采购的主管,本财年的重点采购领域涵盖自主火力系统、作战车辆、水上补给装备、破障设备、监视与目标定位系统等。
Designate a "portfolio acquisition executive for autonomy" and focus this fiscal year on autonomous fires, combat vehicles, watercraft resupply, breachers, surveillance and targeting, and more.
- 将15X与390A两类军事职业资质的适用范围扩展至所有陆军单位。(今年8月,陆军刚将15X——即无人飞行器系统技术专家——列为新设岗位。)宏观背景:多年来,美军高层始终倡导人机协同作战模式。而无人机在东欧战场上展现出的卓越效能——无论是在地面、空中还是水上——更使得这一战略的重要性大幅提升。
Expand authorizations for 15X and 390A military occupational specialties to "all applicable Army units." (The service in August described 15X, tactical unmanned aircraft systems specialist, as its newest role.) Zoom out: U.S. military leadership has for years advocated for manned-unmanned teaming. The incredible success of drones in Eastern Europe — whether on the ground, in the air or on the water — has raised the stakes.
总结而言,特莱强调:“陆军正加速推进各项举措,以保住我们的作战优势。这一切都是为了提升战斗力,确保我军在任何战斗中都能克敌制胜。”
The bottom line: "The Army is rapidly advancing to maintain our lethal edge," Telle said. "This is about combat readiness to destroy the enemy and ensure our Army never enters a fair fight."