RVPS: A Look at the US Army’s Rapid Vehicle Provisioning System

By Tactical-Life

The following is a release from Amy Walker, PEO C3T Public Affairs:

The Army’s new Rapid Vehicle Provisioning System (RVPS) reduces the time it takes to provision a brigade’s approximately 70 networked vehicles from four weeks to less than five days.

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The system acts like a filling station, connecting the vehicles to a single server, which can provision, load, configure and install needed software simultaneously, versus conducting these tasks as it did in the past — one vehicle at a time.

“RVPS improves unit readiness and network security, while reducing cost and Soldier burden,” said Col. LaMont Hall, former product manager for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2, which manages RVPS. “Those weeks spent merely preparing vehicles for operations can now be spent utilizing the vehicles in training or in support of real world missions.”

WIN-T is the Army’s tactical communications network backbone, the transport mechanism that enables mission command, communications and situational awareness in both stationary command posts and on-the-move in combat vehicles, from any location or in any terrain. RVPS will be virtualized onto the existing hardware of the WIN-T-equipped vehicles, so vehicle size, weight and power requirements remain unaltered.

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Source:: Tactical Life