Experience the EDGE^TM

The EDGE is based on a simple premise. Each year, industry and academia invest significant dollars in research and development aimed at meeting the user and customer needs in the mounted and dismounted soldier market. The EDGE provides an environment where technology developers and innovators are openly informed of user capability needs and architectural interfaces and details. This knowledge enables them to apply their internal research funds to innovation projects that can meet customer and user needs, allow customers to view and assess these innovations and then rapidly insert new technology into fielding baselines.

Conceived and sponsored by General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Arizona USA, the EDGE enables open sharing of information and assistance across its members to foster innovation at faster cycle times than currently possible on funded programs. Early briefings to key customers have shown recognition that the opportunity to foster innovation in the EDGE will provide customers with multiple advantages:

• assisting in creating and maintaining the list of top-requested and desired capabilities
• influencing where industry and academia place their annual internal research funding
• monitoring EDGE projects and innovations for technologies ripe for adoption and insertion into funded programs