ENHANCE PERFORMANCE
FIGHT SMART
Silent Tactical Energy Enhanced Dismount (STEED) significantly enhances close combat lethality and human performance during dismounted operations. STEED maximizes small unit dominance through heavy weapons transport, increased squad maneuver and mobility, rapid 1:1 casualty evacuation, and allows operators to arrive on objective with reduced physical exertion allowing for them to fight at peak performance.
STEED is an all-terrain, electric payload mobility platform which is tactically silent, has zero emissions and can carry up to 500 lbs. 15-30 miles over difficult terrain. This commercial machine is manually guided by a single operator using a thumb throttle and enables the carriage of diverse payloads using a versatile load deck. U.S. Patents 10,654,503 and 11,254,341.
Benefits to Soldiers
Versatile and All-terrain: Take anything you need, wherever you want to go
Enhance Human Performance: Arrive at the objective with reduced physical exertion and be ready to fight at peak performance
Capability Gap: Nothing else available, simple, robust, versatile
STEED Features
Weight and distance: Carries 500 pounds 15-30 miles on one battery pack
Multipurpose: Designed to carry any payload; heavy weapons, breaching equipment, CASEVAC, UAVs/UGVs, power supplies, food and water, ammunition, etc.
All-terrain:
Hills, forested areas, climbs stairs, tunnels, over rocks and rubble
Dense Urban and Subterranean: cities, indoors, tunnels, and caves
Transportable: UH-60, MRZR or Hilux bed, LMTV aisle, towable, air droppable in transport case
Capability Relevance
Troop overburden is a well-documented issue with direct consequences on soldier performance, close combat lethality, and soldier survivability.
Mission packages are constrained by limitations of dismounted weight carriage, which is a widely documented capability gap by the government.
Army Foot Marches: ATP 3-21.18 (FM 21-18)
AFC: Maneuver and Mobility
Musculoskeletal injuries were 1/3 of non-combat medevacs from Afghanistan and Iraq 2004-2007 and the cause of 50% of veteran disabilities from 2001-2010. There was no viable solution to this capability gap — until STEED.
STEED is validated through OCONUS deployment and soldier experimentation/training missions, including a combat validation conducted by Army Futures Command and SOCOM.
SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE
Proven in real world scenarios
STEED is proven through OCONUS deployment, Army experimentations and unit training missions. Army Futures Command and SOCOM completed a combat validation on STEED which was supported by government personnel from AWG, ARL, and the Human Research Engineering Directorate (HRED). Government subject matter experts designed and tested the system’s performance through real-world mission scenarios encompassing rural, urban and subterranean environments.
Reduced
Mission Times
35-64% reduction in mission times, essentially 3x faster dismounted movement
Mission Effectiveness & Security Posture
80% reduction in troop to task, allowing fewer operators to move payload and more operators ready to fight
Enhanced Soldier Performance
60% reduction in calorie burn, less effort, lower exertion, higher situational awareness
Rapid
CASEVAC
1:1 troop to casualty ratio for movement, 17% lower accelerations on patient
Sustainment
& Soldier Load
400% payload increase, concurrent with a reduction in metabolic rate
Small Unit Dismounted Power
Provides expeditionary dismounted electrical power exceeding 72-hour mission
