Author: Pat Seiber

BCDC hits milestone and receives additional opportunities to accelerate national security technologies Jade Williams ’25 ’27, BCDC Public Relations BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, speed is as crucial as technological superiority. This urgency has driven the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC) since its founding six years ago. Created…

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas  – Hundreds of innovators, industry representatives, academia and government representatives gathered here in Aggieland last month for the first of what could become an annual event designed to help the Army accelerate robotics technology development. Army Futures Command hosted the event, while multiple Texas A&M System facilities served as the venue where…

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas  –  On Sept. 21 and 22, Raytheon, an RTX company, conducted an open-air test of an operational laser weapon on the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC). Raytheon’s high-energy lasers (HEL) are combat-ready weapons that use silent, invisible beams of light to destroy drone threats at…

Texas A&M Cadets and Texas Army National Guard Soldiers Given Opportunity to Test Future Technology Patrick Seiber, BCDC Public Relations Texas A&M Army ROTC cadets hear from PdM RCV leaders about opportunities to serve the military in and out of uniform at BCDC.  (Photo by Patrick Seiber, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex Public Relations)…

By Patrick Seiber, BCDC Public Relations BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) recently recognized Dr. Nathan Tichenor ’05, ’07 ’10 as an associate fellow due to his contributions and leadership at a national level in the field of aerospace engineering. Tichenor currently serves as a research professor of aerospace…

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas — On Sept. 30, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) transitioned from the $65 million cooperative agreement awarded in 2019 to an up to $96.2 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Army for its George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC) to continue research and technology development in support of critical…

The Research Integration Center (RIC) will be complete and fully operational August 2021. Ground was broken for the RIC on Oct 12, 2019, and construction is well underway.

Texas A&M University System, U.S. Army and Army Futures Command (AFC) officials and the Bush family were on the RELLIS Campus Oct. 12 for the official groundbreaking and naming of the new Bush Combat Development Complex, named in honor of former President George H.W. Bush.

On Oct. 2, U.S. Senator John Cornyn, the U.S. Army Futures Command and The Texas A&M University System announced a cooperative agreement that will provide up to $65 million over five years to Texas A&M, which will support research into new technologies to help the Army Futures Command modernize the nation’s fighting force.