New options displayed for Humvee cockpit
Sitting in a cramped Humvee commanding hundreds of combat missions in Baghdad two years ago, Capt. Steve Rooney never thought he’d one day help design what could be the Humvee’s cockpit of the future.But for the past few months, the 41-year-old Massachusetts Army National Guard soldier has been sharing his experience with engineers at General Dynamics’ Vehicle C4ISR Innovation Center in Taunton, Mass., in an effort to find more ergonomically-efficient ways of installing today’s battlefield digital communications equipment.The innovation center is part of GD’s Vehicle Edge concept, which consists of more than 100 companies working together to solve challenges such as space and power management inside combat vehicles.General Dynamics displayed the array of new options from the effort in a demonstration Humvee at the 2009 Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition.The vehicle features improvements ranging from space-saving alternatives for mounting Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below computer screens in both the front and back seats of the Humvee to exterior cameras that provide soldiers with 360-degree surveillance around the vehicle.As if by chance, Rooney said his neighbor, who works on the effort, asked him to help with design changes by looking at them from the soldier’s perspective.“In my job as a commander, I had 55 up-armored Humvees and two armored security vehicles, and we did close to 1,000 missions in the Baghdad area,” said Rooney, who …
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New options displayed for Humvee cockpit
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