Industrial Design for Army Modernization

The Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) has an ongoing effort to use Industrial Design to explore the toughest problems faced by the Army modernization community. That effort takes several steps from the Design thinking discipline and seeks to understand Soldier perspectives, define problems and propose conceptual solutions. This paper summarizes the employment of Industrial Design at GVSC as well as outputs from two key Design projects. It concludes by presenting the combined learned outcomes from several Design efforts at GVSC and proposes ways in which Industrial Design and Design Thinking can better drive Army modernization, by understanding user’s needs, and committing to Innovation.