American Rheinmetall has been awarded a $7.28 million contract to deliver 12 Mission Master SP Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles and five amphibious kits to the U.S. Marine Corps. The procurement is managed through the Defense Logistics Agency with ADS Inc. as the prime contractor supporting the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
The vehicles feature Rheinmetall’s PATH autonomy architecture and the new Marine Kit, which enables extended amphibious operations in littoral environments. According to American Rheinmetall CEO Matt Warnick, the award builds on more than four years of collaboration with Marines to mature autonomous ground capabilities based on operational lessons learned. Rheinmetall Canada president and CEO Pietro Mazzei noted that the platform allows the Marine Corps to deploy the system across multi-domain environments, stated Rheinmetall in a press release.
The systems will support ongoing evaluation and experimentation as the Marine Corps expands its autonomous logistics and expeditionary mobility programs. Program execution involves engineering and production support from Rheinmetall Canada, while aligning with American Rheinmetall’s strategy to develop its Maine facility as an Advanced Land Autonomy Center of Excellence for future manufacturing and lifecycle support.
