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[packerfan9]

This tech will be used by all our soldiers at some point. Will they win contract we will see. Yet no doubt the future for soldiers is a suit like this. Whoever has them first has huge advantage and defense knows this.

[TMilzSr]

Thank You for the url. As a convenience, I took the liberty to paste below the exoskeleton snippet from the Q/A session.

Q: Can you provide updates on the tactical assault light operator suit (TALOS) program? Do you still anticipate delivering a prototype suit this year?

A: TALOS continues to push the boundaries of how much protection you can provide to the individual operator without sacrificing their mobility. As an S&T [science and technology] project, we’ve entered into the exciting stage where each of the individual vendors will begin delivering subsystems this fall and we’ll begin integration into the first functioning prototype. The current development schedule projects demonstrating a functional TALOS MK5 prototype during the summer of 2019. The Exoskeleton subsystem is the critical path for the first article prototype combat operator suit, and it remains the most complex which has resulted in design delays.

The other TALOS subsystems — encompassing base layer, visual augmentation systems and operator interface; helmet; armor; power; and communications — continue to be refined for optimal performance and integration with the exoskeleton subsystem development. We intend to demonstrate these subsystems in a lab environment progressively by the end of 2018 (not including the exoskeleton).