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U.S. Army Research, Development
and Engineering Command
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2012 Science, Technology & Requirements Forum
17-18 October 2012
Wendy A. Winner Associate Director for Protection & Lethality Technology Focus Teams
Weapons & Materials Research Directorate
Army Research Laboratory, RDECOM
[email protected], 410-306-0696 (DSN 458)
Protection Technologies--
Challenges and Opportunities
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Today’s Objective
Approach:
• Define protection from the RDECOM frame of reference
• Provide context for the roles of missions and threats
• Identify science & technology challenges & opportunities
• Materials for protection
• Ballistic mechanisms
• Manufacturing sciences
• Discuss one of many success stories & its future directions
• Summary
Purpose: Discuss challenges and opportunities in science, technology &
manufacturing science for protection
How do we break through the paradigm of incremental advances to yield
inventions & innovations?
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RDECOM Mission
Provide integrated research, development and engineering
solutions to empower, unburden, protect and sustain the
Warfighter.
Shoot Move Communicate
Future Current
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RDECOM is the Army’s
go-to organization for
the superior scientific
and engineering
expertise that defines
the space between the
state of the art and the
art of the possible and
delivers innovative
technology solutions
that ensure the United
States maintains global
battlefield dominance.
Vision
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RDECOM Organization
RFEC Atlantic
RFEC Pacific
RFEC Americas
ECBC
Edgewood
Chemical
Biological
Center
AMRDEC
Aviation &
Missile
Research,
Development &
Engineering
Center
CERDEC
Communication-
Electronics
Research,
Development &
Engineering
Center
ARDEC
Armaments
Research,
Development &
Engineering
Center
TARDEC
Tank and
Automotive
Research,
Development &
Engineering
Center
ARL
Army
Research
Laboratory
NSRDEC
Natick Soldier
Research,
Development &
Engineering
Center
Incoming
DCG RDECOM
Mr. Dale A. Ormond
Director RDECOM
Ms. Barbara Machak
Deputy Director (Acting) RDECOM
CSM Lebert
Beharie
CSM RDECOM
GEN Dennis L. Via
CG AMC Ms. Heidi Shyu
ASA(ALT) & AAE
SAAL-ZA
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Human Dimension &
Training
Power & Energy
Sensors
Network
Basic Research
Mobility & Logistics
Lethality
Protection
RDECOM Technology Focus Teams
Technologies Enable Air Systems
Command Posts
C4ISR
Force Application/Effects
Ground Platforms
Soldiers
Wear
Corrosion
Fatigue
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Technologies that enable the preservation of the effectiveness and survivability of
individual soldier systems; manned and unmanned air and ground platforms;
command posts and other high valued assets against a spectrum of threats.
Technologies principally focus on preventing, through physical means, acquisition
and observation; avoiding contact; preventing penetration; and enabling
Soldier/crew/vehicle survivability from threats.
Protection Technologies
(as defined by the RDECOM Technology Focus Team)
Side Armor
Multi-Threat
Armor Skirt Armor
Roof Armor
Hybrid Protection
Fundamentals of
Ceramic Materials
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Protection TFT Taxonomy
Protection TFT Taxonomy
Leve
l 1
Ground Protection Air Protection Soldier Protection Base/Area Protection
Leve
l 2
Active Protection Aircraft Hardening Head-borne Active Base Protection
Hit Avoidance Aircrew Protection Small Arms Passive Base Protection
Non-Armor Protection for
Vehicles Threat Avoidance
Soft Armor
(& Extremities)
Underbody Blast/Occupant
Protection
Environmental Protection
for Soldiers
Vehicle Armor
L2 M&MS for Vehicles M&MS for Aircraft M&MS for Soldier M&MS for Base/Area
L2 Basic Materials & Manufacturing Science
L1
Materials & Manufacturing Science (M&MS) for Protection
L2 Ballistics for Vehicles Ballistics for Aircraft Ballistics for Soldier Ballistics for Base/Area
L1 Ballistics Research
Humans in Extreme Environments
Current and Emerging Threats
Core Competencies
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Diversity of Mission
- Within a Current Operation
- Other Operations in Other Regions
- Envisioning Future Operations
Current Future
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Current and Emerging Threats
• Direct Fire
• Indirect Fire
• IEDs/mines
• Fragments
• Blast & debris
• Flame/thermal
• Non-lethal
• Chemical/Biological
• Obscurants
• Weather
etc.
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Materials for Protection
Materials breakthroughs offer
opportunities for technical
advances
• Lighter weight
• Advanced functionality &
performance through
nanoscience
• Thermal management
• Better adhesives/interfaces
Materials are fundamental building
blocks for protection systems 2D
Fabrics
3D
Failure and fraction
ceramics
Novel composite
development
Tri-modal AI
Multi-hit Improvement
of Armor
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Ballistic Mechanisms
Understanding terminal ballistics helps
makes materials into protective systems
– High rate behavior and failure
– Computational methods
– Shock physics and wave mechanics
– Material interfaces and damage
propagation
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Manufacturing Sciences
Manufacturing science provides opportunities to
achieve desired material properties and system
architecture
• Virtual manufacturing
• Process modeling & improvement
• Novel manufacturing methods
• Processing of hybridized materials systems
Equal Channel Angular Extrusion
Hot pressing furnaces with multiple
heating and cooling chambers, and
a central hot pressing chamber
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Strategy for Future Directions
• Lightweight Ballistic Protection
– Ultra-lightweight and multifunctional materials
– Next generation armor materials
– Modeling and simulation tools for advanced threats, materials and mechanisms
– Maturation and system engineering integration of technologies
– Optimized multi-threat protection
– Analytical tools to evaluate ballistic and high energy events
• Active protection technologies
– Smart armors
– Active protection systems
– Extended area protection
• Soldier / Crew Protection Technologies
– Vision protection
– Advanced automatic energy attenuators, smart landing gear, advanced inflatable restraint system components, crashworthiness design criteria, & active energy attenuation control
– Advanced structural survivability for ground platforms
– Integrated Soldier protection technologies
PROVIDE INNOVATIVE PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
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Innovative materials and architectures
are leading to improved performance
Influence of Backing Architecture on
Ceramic/Composite Performance
Development of Improved Ceramic
Compositions for Reduced Impact Damage
Torso Armor Plate
(baseline ceramic)
Plate with modified
material composition
and processing to
reduce cracking
Oriented backings lead to a lower
maximum in back face deformation
Armor package after
two-shot impact
A hybrid exhibits better s-curve
performance than [0/90] over
entire probability range
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DIAPHORM
Development of Helmet Process Technologies
Army & Industry Manufacturing Collaborations
to advance Soldier Protection Technologies
Development of Body Armor Process Technologies
Technology
Exchange
Special Ops
FAST and Navy
SEAL Maritime
Helmet (fielded)
FY15 Goal: 10% lighter ESAPI
System
Marines/Army Enhanced
Combat Helmet (pending)
Technology
Exchange
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Opportunities to Collaborate with ARL
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FY14 Call for Army ManTech Proposals
• Official Call for Proposals (FY14 New Starts)
– Late October 2012 – early January 2013
– Program executed through Army Science & Technology Organizations
(RDECOM, ERDC, MRMC and SMDC)
• Topics
– Materials and Components for the Soldier
– Missile and Munitions Components
– Communications and Electronics
– Propulsion
– Manufacturing Process Data Capture & Utilization
– Power and Energy
– Structures and Survivability
• More information can be found at:
– www.armymantech.com
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FY14 Call for Army ManTech Proposals
Ground Systems
• Affordable Armor Processes
• Sintered Spinel for Transparent Armor
• Advanced and Multi-Purpose Warhead
• IMX 104 Munitions Manufacturing
• Cannon Life Extension
• Guided Missile Antennas
Soldier Systems
• Lightweight Body Armor
• Chemical/Biological
Resistant Fabric
• Energy Efficient Tent Liners
Enduring
• Net-Centric Model Based Engineering
• Accelerated Adaptive Fabrication
Enterprise (A3FABE)
• Additive Manufacturing for Quick Tooling
Air Systems
• Advanced Ceramic Matrix Composite Machining
• Rotorcraft Blade Erosion Coating Application
• Reliable and Affordable UAV Propulsion
• Nano-composite Coatings
• Composite Structures for Aviation Systems
C3 Systems
• Large Affordable Substrates
• Chip Scale Atomic Clocks
• High Operating Temp FPAs
• High Definition FPAs
• Active Pixel Sensor
• Flexible Display
Advanced Mfg
Technology Initiatives
Supporting Critical S&T
Development
Affordable Sustainment
of Current Systems
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Synergies for the Future
• Rate of technical progress will continue to
slow with conventional approaches alone
• Multidisciplinary opportunities offer avenues
for disruptive innovations
• Future challenge is linking disparate scientific
disciplines & communities
• Collaboration is the process of bringing the
contributions of all the partners together, to
integrate them into a single coherent whole
that is greater than the sum of our parts.