Their visit included a tour of RELLIS and lunch with the Corps of Cadets.

The contract from the Army Research Laboratory will support autonomous vehicle research at the Bush Combat Development Complex.

The Texas A&M System hosted talks for experts and offered its research and testing help.

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will lead a five-year contract for Department of Defense research among top U.S. universities.

McCarthy praised the Texas A&M project for its collaboration among researchers, industry and soldiers in pursuit of high-tech military innovation.

The hypersonic test facility and combat vehicle test track will be located at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex.

A retiring Army Futures Command colonel will be the director of Bush Combat Development Complex.

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved $79.3 million for the complex, which will support research and technology development that will modernize the Army.