Lightweight Extreme Weather Shelter Market Investigation.

Abstract

The U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (SOF) has the need for a backpackable extreme weather shelter. The shelter is to provide protection for three soldiers in the case of extreme weather conditions, such as sand storms, heavy winds, blowing rain and snow. The market investigation was requested to look at nondevelopmental items (NDI) available that would fill this need. U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center (Natick) conducted the market investigation through letters, telephone conversations, advertisements in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD), and visitations to manufacturers' facilities to acquire the necessary information to determine if any commercial tents are available today that could meet the requirements of the draft statement of Need Clothing and Individual Equipment for a three man extreme weather shelter. The findings of this investigation indicate that there are several commercially available, state-of-the-art tents capable of meeting all of the performance characteristics for a lightweight extreme weather shelter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA289032

Entities

People

  • Laura A. Ryan

Organizations

  • United States Army Soldier Systems Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Clothing
  • Commerce
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • Warfare

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