Oshkosh Defense displays its Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires (ROUGE-Fires) on the floor at AUSA 2024. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

AUSA 2024 — The Army’s top leaders, hundreds of servicemembers and scores of the top defense contractors in the world descended upon Washington, DC, today for the opening of the Association of the United States Army‘s annual conference, known as AUSA 2024.

Breaking Defense has all the news from the show available here, and as always there was plenty of hardware to be seen on the show floor. Check out a selection of photos from Day 1.

At AUSA 2024, Rohde & Schwarz displays a mobile signals system known as SigBadger. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

A heavily armed next-gen tactical vehicle on display from GM Defense at AUSA 2024. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

Allison Transmission eGen Power motor on display at AUSA 2024. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

Leidos’s Airshield counter-UAS system sits at the company’s booth at AUSA 2024. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

A Leonardo extended mast surveillance system ready to roll into position at AUSA 2024. (Breaking Defense)

One of BAE’s two AMPV variants on the show floor at AUSA 2024, this one sports the company’s Modular Turreted Mortar System. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)

BAE’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) with a 30mm gun on display at AUSA 2024. (Brendon Smith / Breaking Defense)