American Rheinmetall
US arm of Rheinmetall and prime contractor on the Army Project Sustainment award.
American Rheinmetall, the US arm of the German prime, was named prime contractor on the 18-month Project Sustainment award on 31 July 2026.
Last refreshed: 3 August 2026
Is the US Army's robot contractor the same firm as the German Rheinmetall?
Timeline for American Rheinmetall
Named prime contractor on the Project Sustainment award
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: US Army buys the robot resupply jobBackground
American Rheinmetall is the US Arm of German defence prime Rheinmetall, a distinct legal entity from parent Rheinmetall AG and from Rheinmetall Kraken GmbH. On 31 July 2026 it was named prime contractor on Project Sustainment, an 18-month US Army award for hybrid-powered autonomous ground vehicles, executed through the National Advanced Mobility Consortium.
As prime, it assembled a three-firm subcontractor team, one building the vehicle, one its driving software and one its voice interface, and discloses no value for the award. Vice President of Sales and Marketing Jim Schirmer called it an expansion of the company's uncrewed ground systems portfolio.
The legal separation from its German parent and from Rheinmetall Kraken GmbH matters for tracking who actually holds a given contract: this is the US-domiciled entity, and Project Sustainment is its award, not the parent group's.