Landmine Warfare and Barrier - Adv Dev

Abstract

This project enables component development of new counter explosive hazard systems that focus on detecting, marking, and neutralizing mines and improvised explosive devices (IED). These capabilities will enhance the effectiveness of the Route Clearance Platoon within the Engineer Company, the Brigade Combat Team as well as other related Army missions. The Forward Reconnaissance and Explosive Hazard Detection (FREHD) system will provide a suite of vehicle-mounted capabilities that enable route clearance patrols to achieve higher rates of advance by accurately detecting and adjudicating potential explosive hazards with reduced hazard interrogation time. The system will automatically nominate potential hazards on the move and at standoff distance, and then let route clearance teams decide whether to perform more detailed examinations and identification of those hazards using additional tools within the FREHD suite. FREHD will also provide threat visualization and control capabilities that enable route clearance and allow Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and related mission personnel to remotely view video feeds of the hazard and remotely control the apparatus. The increased rate of advance will improve route clearance time, while the increased standoff improves force protection.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0603619A_4_2040_PB_2015
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Clearances
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Detection
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal
• Explosives
• Force Protection
• Land Mines
• Munitions
• Neutralization
• Product Development
• Reconnaissance
• Standoff
• Technology Assessment

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Military Science
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.