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The Army has selected five small businesses to refine concepts for delivering a faster rate of fire for the future Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system, while the service continues a parallel effort on its own autoloader with a key demonstration planned for September. Senior program officials provided an ERCA update to reporters last Thursday, including plans to accept another group of test systems shortly which will undergo two years of testing before delivering 18 prototype capabilities to a battalion…
