Mob/Wpns Eff Tech

Abstract

This project investigates, evaluates, and develops technologies for adaptive and expedient force protection across the range of military operations. Focus areas include: force projection and maneuver, including austere port and airfield entry and overcoming battlespace gaps (such as cliffs, ravines, mudflats, shallow rivers, and other natural obstacles); prediction, definition, avoidance, or defeat of the gaps; scalable weapons effects; and high-resolution representation of near-surface terrain and environment for use with sensor models for target detection and unmanned ground systems (UGS) navigation. This research further provides physics-based representations of ground vehicle mobility, obstacle and barrier placement, survivability, and weapons effects in complex and urban terrain modeling and simulation. Work in this project increases the survivability of critical assets from conventional, unconventional, and emerging threats and enables maneuver support of deployed forces, while reducing their logistical footprint. This project supports efforts for overcoming critical capability gaps for protecting troops operating at smaller bases that are remote or integrated with local communities. Work in this project supports the Army Science and Technology Ground Maneuver, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I), and Soldier Portfolios. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: T40_0602784A_2_2040_PB_2017

Tags

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control