FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — More than 20 military working dog teams from across the Army converged on Fort Leonard Wood last week to participate in an assessment of a new explosives detection training aid developed at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
According to Jarrett Ellis, an experimentation engineer at the Maneuver Support Battle Lab here — which falls under Army Futures Command — the assessment was part of the Maneuver Support, Sustainment and Protection Integration eXperiments. MSSPIX, as it’s commonly called, provides Army leaders and capability developers a chance to gain insights into the viability of emerging technologies through credible and validated operational assessments.
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Source: U.S. Army