Next Gen Mobility & Lethality Tech for Warfighters

Abstract

This Project investigates the means to monitor, assess, predict and optimize/enhance Soldier and squad decision-making and shoot and move performance. In addition, it will provide design guidance for individual and mission specific equipment (e.g., individual protection, small arms, load carriage, information portrayal etc.) and quantitative impacts of mission and associated clothing and individual equipment (CIE) on individual and small unit performance. Research conducted focuses on translating mission tasks to measures of human performance. These measures of human performance will inform predictive algorithms, human based modeling and simulation, and assessment tools that enable Soldier performance trade space analysis for acquisition, training, and operations. These data and algorithms will allow us to determine the impact of new capabilities on Soldier and Squad performance and effectiveness, understand deficiencies in performance and investigate novel strategies to optimize and enhance performance. Work in this Project complements and is fully coordinated with the Medical Research and Development Command under the Military Operational Medicine Research Program as well as Defense Medical Research and Development Program under Military Operational Medicine (JPC-5) to include Projects in PE 0602787A (Medical Technology). This Project also complements and is fully coordinated with work performed across Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Human Systems Community of Interest: Protection, Sustainment, and Warfighter Performance. This Project supports key Army needs and leverages the technical research of several Program Elements (PEs) to include the following: PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Projects BC6 (Human Perf-Tech for Warfighter Enhancement), and PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology)/ Projects BC1 (Human Performance Adv Tech for Mobility & Lethality). This Project also supports and leverages PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project AY9 (Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Advanced Tech), and Project BD7 (Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration- Sensor Adv Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: BC2_0602143A_2_2040_PB_2025

Tags

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Space