The creation process is extremely flexible: Teams can compare and fit together existing parts, view them in a collaborative CAD environment, modify the size and materials, and even submit their own designs. The winner will be judged on a set of design requirements such as cost, speed, weight, resilience and so on. A collaborative 3-D environment in DARPA's VehicleFORGE. The library of parts is even called C2M2L, or 'camel,' a nod to the original collaborative design failure ('a horse designed by committee'). But the DoD also expects talented non-military individuals and teams to do a lot of really valuable design work - motivated, of course, by a million-dollar prize. Of course, the point isn't to have amateurs putting together pieces of junk, although plenty of failed designs are expected. Anyone can piece together an engine and drivetrain and submit it for evaluation. Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower system, the first new combat. The DoD is taking all the parts you might need to build the 'Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle' (FANG) and making them all available for mixing and matching using a suite of powerful online tools the department calls VehicleFORGE. To determine the basis of selecting the right type of design based on the above, the broad parameters that define the configuration namely number of crew, weight, armament system, survivability. (Courtesy of General Dynamics Land Systems) WASHINGTON General Dynamics Land Systems will start assembling in November the U.S. It treats development less as a special design case and more like a big bucket full of LEGO blocks. At least part of the process needed to be rethought, and DARPA's 'Adaptive Vehicle Make' project is the result.

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