Individual Protection (SDD)
Abstract
This project provides Engineering & Manufacturing Development Phase and Low Rate Initial Production (EMD/LRIP) for individual protection equipment, with the goal of providing equipment that allows the individual Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine to operate in a contaminated Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) environment with little or no degradation of his/her performance. Efforts included in this project are: (1) Joint Service Aircrew Mask for Strategic Aircraft (JSAM SA) (2) Special Purpose Unit Rapid Capability Development and Deployment (SPU RCDD) (3) Uniform Integrated Protective Ensemble Family of Systems (UIPE FoS) (4) UIPE FoS General Purpose (GP) (5) UIPE FoS Air, and (6) UIPE FoS Gloves JSAM SA will provide individual respiratory, ocular, and percutaneous protection of chemical and biological warfare agents, and select toxic industrial chemicals for USAF (E-3, E-8, C-135s, C-17, C-145, C-146, C130s, C-5), Aeromedical personnel (C-130s, KC-10, U-18, CV-22, KC-135, C-12s, KC-46), USN (P-8, E-6, C-40, C12, C-20), USMC (C-9, C-12, C-20, UC-35), and USA (RC-7, C-12s, C-20, C-26, UC-35, C-37) strategic aircrew. The mask components will be optimized to minimize their impact on the wearer's performance to continue lethality in a chemical biological (CB) environment and maximize its ability to interface with aircrew protective clothing. JSAM SA will provide pressure breathing for altitude for aircraft that do not require pressure breathing for gravity. JSAM SA will integrate with aircraft subsystems which include aviation life support equipment, aircrew flight equipment, aircraft seating, portable aircrew systems, communications systems, and aircraft oxygen systems. In FY22 the JSAM SA program will continue Operational Testing, Integration Testing and Safe-to-Fly on various Service aircraft. SPU RCDD facilitates rapid response to near-term and emergent chemical-biological defensive capability requirements from elements of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), select elements from across the Special Operations Force (SOF) Enterprise such as Combatant Commanders Response Forces (CRFs) and other Joint Force enabling units such as the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives Command. SPU RCDD mitigates risk across the Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP) by creating a portfolio of operationally-relevant CB capabilities that can be quickly transitioned to needed elements and formations of the joint force, in whole or part, in response to the articulated, emergent capability needs of the geographic combatant commanders. These objectives are met by the early transitioning of promising science and technologies (S&T) from the Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) among others; the focused conduct of combat evaluations and mission-oriented operational assessments to assess technological and mission suitability; and the active leveraging of existing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products along with novel redesign approaches to optimize existing solutions to new challenges supported by "buy-try-decide-acquire" acquisition strategies. Projects being initiated or continued in FY22 include 1) Low Temperature Mass Spectroscopy and Hyper Spectral imaging detection systems that provides users increased detection capability and orthogonal technologies for field confirmation, 2) Optimized CBRN Hydration resupply system that provides the user the ability to refill their own personal hydration system in a contaminated environment, 3) Modular and micro Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR) that provides the user an improved form-fit over the existing C420 PAPR configuration, a smaller size and weight than the C420, and extend the filter and battery life beyond current capability so users may continue operating in a CB-contaminated environment unencumbered, and 4) CBRND protective equipment in response to new and emerging threats and opportunities. In FY22 SPU RCDD initiates efforts such as respiratory breathing systems, biological identification, and modernization of protective Chemical and Biological ensembles that have gone through requirements validation, and continues product enhancement development and technology upgrades on currently fielded SOF equipment to counter emerging threats, conduct limited user evaluations and operational assessment. The UIPE FoS is a family of systems that provides the broad spectrum of users with individual percutaneous protective equipment allowing the ability to operate in a contaminated environment with no or minimal degradation in performance. UIPE FoS provides protection from operationally relevant traditional and non-traditional CBRN threats likely to be encountered during joint force operations. In FY21, UIPE FoS is separated into UIPE FoS GP, UIPE FoS Air and UIPE FoS Gloves. UIPE FoS GP provides a family of systems that will give the Warfighter percutaneous protection from operationally relevant traditional, non-traditional, and advanced CBRN/Toxic Industrial Material (TIM) threats likely to be encountered during Joint Force operations. The Tactical All-Hazards Threat Protective Ensemble (TATPE) will be a subset to the UIPE FoS GP and capitalize on the protection factor of commercial Level A with design modifications to align with the necessary operational requirements. This suit serves as an additional tool in the arsenal until technology matures to the point of delivering a similar capability applied against the range of military operations in all environments under all conditions. In FY22, UIPE FoS GP program will complete Developmental/Operational Testing (DT/OT), conduct Operational Assessment (OA), and perform Surveillance Testing. The UIPE FoS Air program provides the Warfighter percutaneous protection from operationally relevant traditional and non-traditional Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) threats for tactical/ejection seat, Rotary Wing, and non-ejection Fixed Wing platforms supporting the United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy (USN), and United States Marine Corps (USMC). The UIPE FoS Air is composed of two variants - the UIPE FoS Air Chemical, Biological, Radiological Layer (CBRL) for USAF tactical/ejection fixed wing platforms and the two piece undergarment (2PUG) for the remaining USAF and USN/USMC tactical/ejection seat, Rotary Wing, and non-ejection Fixed Wing platforms. In FY22 the UIPE FoS Air program will complete system level development testing, begin integration testing as well as begin DT/OT to include flight testing. UIPE FoS Gloves provides percutaneous protection to the hand and wrist interface of the warfighter against traditional and non-traditional CBRN threats. UIPE FoS Gloves will provide improved comfort, tactility and dexterity and for certain mission profiles enhanced touch screen and flame resistant capability. In FY22 the UIPE FoS Gloves program will finalize prototype development and testing, and initiate DT/OT on mature prototypes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- IP5_0604384BP_5_0400_PB_2022
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