Power and Energy Architecture for Army Advanced Energy Initiative

Abstract

The Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command's (RDECOM) Power & Energy Integrated Product Team (P&E IPT) has initiated the Army Advanced Energy Initiative (AAEI) concept. Although there are multiple reasons driving the need for this program, foremost is an urgent requirement to address the need for better integration among programs developing advanced power and energy technologies for the Army. The current P&E architecture is an amalgam of independent programs, which traditionally have been developed in stovepipe organizations, and often as an afterthought to the development of other advanced technologies. The requirement for power and energy in a rapidly modernized, highly digital, and network-centric Army is growing exponentially. Simultaneously the ability to provide these growing depends imposes significant logistic penalties -- fuel consumption, size and weight, reliability, and environmental issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481011

Entities

People

  • Darrell D. Massie
  • Edward C. Shaffer
  • James B. Cross

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battery Chargers
  • Control Systems
  • Electric Power
  • Energy
  • Energy Consumption
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Management
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy Systems
  • Fuel Consumption
  • Iraqi-War
  • Load Monitoring
  • Logistics
  • Mobile Phones
  • Organizational Structure
  • Primary Batteries
  • Renewable Energy

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design