The article
It seems as though Lockheed Martin had made it their personal mission to fulfill all of my childhood dreams. To start the U.S. Army's plan to replace thousands of soldiers with robots as a way to increase efficiency by reducing the ratio of support personnel to combat troops. By cutting the size of a brigade by a quarter and filling the gap with robots specialized in logistics, the Army hopes to become safer, more versatile, and cheaper all at the same time. To this end Lockheed Martin has developed the Army and Marine Corps’ Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System (AMAS) program to "robotize" active military vehicles. To clarify, the plan isn't making autonomous vehicles: they're making vehicles autonomous. The vehicles would be completely capable of being driven by a person. Now they just have an added option of deciding if they feel up for driving or not. The system that they've come up with includes a high performance LIDAR sensor, some GPS sensors, and possibly some other sensors that Lockheed isn't talking about (like radars and cameras). And then there's a bunch of fancy software, and some sort of vehicle integration package that allows the system to be dropped into "virtually any military vehicle."
The implications
The main implication of this system is they can operate fully autonomously in both urban and rural environments that may be dangerous in that there may be ambushes and similar dangers that a convoy may encounter. This would greatly reduce the risk of so dangers because there wouldn't be any humans to put at risk.