Individual Protection
Abstract
This Project matures, demonstrates, and integrates Soldier protective clothing and equipment required to enhance Soldier survivability from multiple battlefield threats, impact unit readiness, and potentially debilitate Soldiers. Threats are characterized as combat threats (e.g. flame and thermal, blast and ballistic, multispectral sensors, and laser threats), environmental threats (e.g. cold, heat, wet, vector, water contamination, concealment, antimicrobial, etc.), and Soldier system components and system limitations (e.g. size, weight, and bulk). This effort includes the demonstration and validation of integrated technologies, novel subsystems/systems, and test methods related to the development of personnel armor, helmets, hearing protection, eyewear, uniforms, hand-wear, footwear, and other clothing and individual equipment items. Efforts apply human systems integration principles and practices to protective equipment designs to advance the understanding of trade-offs between protection, lethality and mobility. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. All FY 2020 realignments to this Project are due to financial restructuring in support of Army Modernization Priorities. Work in this Project is performed by the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- FF6_0603001A_3_2040_PB_2020
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