Oshkosh to showcase future combat systems at AUSA

Oshkosh Defense will use the AUSA Global Force Symposium & Exposition, set for March 24-26, to present two of its latest mobility-focused systems: the L-MAV autonomous vehicle and the Mobile Artillery Platform that serves as the vehicle base for Elbit America’s SIGMA artillery system.

The company said its exhibit will focus on integrated mobility solutions built around power, autonomy, and mission systems for the United States Army.

The timing fits with the Army’s push to field new capabilities faster while avoiding long, risky development cycles. Oshkosh is clearly pitching platforms that can take on multiple missions, move with frontline units, and support both autonomous operations and artillery mobility without starting from scratch.

At the center of the display is the L-MAV, or Light Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicle. Oshkosh describes it as “a modular, autonomous multi-mission carrier evolved from the Marine Corps ROGUE-Fires platform, designed to accelerate capability insertion for counter-UAS, electronic warfare, network extension, and autonomous resupply.”

That gives the vehicle a clear place in today’s battlefield environment. Rather than building a separate system for every need, the idea is to use one autonomous ground platform that can carry different mission packages depending on the task. In one role, it could support counter-drone operations. In another, it could carry electronic warfare equipment, extend communications links, or move supplies forward with less direct human control.

The company’s reference to the Marine Corps ROGUE-Fires platform is also important. It ties the L-MAV to an existing military program rather than presenting it as an isolated concept. That lineage helps frame the vehicle as part of a broader shift toward unmanned and semi-autonomous ground mobility, especially for missions where units need range, persistence, and flexibility without putting crews at added risk.

Counter-UAS missions focus on dealing with hostile drones that now appear across nearly every modern combat zone. Electronic warfare missions can involve jamming, signal protection, or control of the electromagnetic environment. Network extension is about keeping units connected when they are spread out or operating beyond fixed communications infrastructure. Autonomous resupply is simpler in concept but no less important: moving ammunition, fuel, or equipment where it is needed without tying up crewed transport for every run.

Taken together, those roles show what Oshkosh is trying to emphasize with L-MAV. This is not being presented as a one-purpose robot vehicle. It is being pitched as a battlefield carrier that can support several mission sets that have become routine in dispersed operations.

The second part of Oshkosh Defense’s AUSA presentation focuses on artillery mobility. The company said it and Elbit Systems of America are providers of the vehicle base for Elbit America’s SIGMA artillery system. SIGMA, it said, is “built on Oshkosh’s Mobile Artillery Platform, a production-ready solution currently fielded for international customers.”

That matters because artillery is not only about the gun. The vehicle underneath it shapes how fast the system can move, how quickly it can reposition after firing, and how well it can keep pace with maneuver forces. By stressing that SIGMA rides on Oshkosh’s Mobile Artillery Platform, the company is putting attention on the chassis and mobility side of the artillery equation.

A self-propelled artillery system depends on more than firepower alone. It must be able to travel across rough terrain, deploy rapidly, fire, then move before counterfire becomes a threat. The vehicle base affects all of that. For Oshkosh, this is a way to show that its role in artillery modernization goes beyond trucks or support vehicles and extends into the mobility architecture of the gun system itself.

The wording “production-ready solution currently fielded for international customers” is one of the more concrete pieces of information in the material provided. Oshkosh did not name those customers or offer numbers, but the phrase makes clear that the company wants this platform seen as something already in real use, not just a concept shown on an exhibition floor.

That gives the SIGMA-related display a different tone from the L-MAV. The L-MAV is presented as a flexible autonomous mission carrier aimed at emerging needs such as counter-UAS, electronic warfare, and autonomous logistics. The Mobile Artillery Platform, by contrast, is presented as a mature base for a fielded artillery system. Together, they let Oshkosh talk about both future-oriented autonomy and current artillery mobility in one package.

The company also said it “supports modernization by transforming innovative concepts into scalable capability, backed by proven manufacturing and integration experience.” That line is aimed at a problem the Army and other services face repeatedly: many defense ideas look promising early on, but fewer make the jump into something that can actually be built in quantity, integrated with other systems, and sustained over time.

Oshkosh is using AUSA Global Force to argue that it can make that jump. The company is not only showing vehicles. It is presenting itself as a manufacturer that can take a mission concept, pair it with a working mobility platform, and turn it into something usable for real formations.