Advanced Concepts for Active Defense Technology
Abstract
This Project researches advanced materials and mechanisms to defeat the most common and most dangerous threats that are expected to be encountered by our ground forces in near, mid and far term. Work conducted in this Project will result in concepts for Adaptive and Cooperative Protection of ground combat vehicles. Modern protective technology implements complex kinematic mechanisms in order to bend, break and disperse threat projectiles before they can injure crew or disable vehicles. These "mechanisms" of the future will have unprecedented access to information through advanced sensors (electro-optic, infrared, radio frequency, magnetic, acoustic), data, communications, high speed digital signal processing, and fusion of information to initiate high-speed controls and actuation to adjust and adapt protective measures and materials. The research strategy will develop experimental and computational tools and techniques (high resolution instrumentation to observe impact events, theories and algorithms to explain these phenomena and numerical implementation of these algorithms) for the development of mass-efficient armor mechanisms. Complimentary armor mechanisms will be co-developed to create multi-threat armor technologies that meet specific military requirements and these will form the building blocks for Adaptive and Cooperative Protection Technologies. Additionally research will focus on subcomponent/component models to predict performance of early concepts and the means to evaluate effectiveness on ground platforms. The Project will balance developments of active threat defeat measures with the necessary advanced passive and reactive components that will ultimately provide for full system solutions which meet the requirements of current and next generation ground tactical and combat vehicles. The Emerging Overmatch Technologies effort will maximize the synergy between protection technologies that are complimentary to the lethality mission to re-establish overmatch of Army technologies. This Project is coordinated with and transition to Projects in PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology) and builds upon weapon target interaction research in PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences) / Project AA7 (Mechanics and Ballistics). The cited work is consistent with Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Futures Command. Work in this Project supports the Army Modernization Priority Next Generation Combat Vehicle.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- BG6_0602145A_2_2040_PB_2020
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