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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


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


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


Current and Emerging Threats

• Direct Fire

• Indirect Fire

• IEDs/mines

• Fragments

• Blast & debris

• Flame/thermal

• Non-lethal

• Chemical/Biological

• Obscurants

• Weather

etc.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.

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between the state of

the art and the art

of the possible.

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