2017-2018 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory Interim Report (2018) / Chapter Skim
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8 Analysis and Assessment
8 Analysis and Assessment
Pages 123-133
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Previously, study results had been presented in difficult to understand and explain formats. By using the increased computing power and advances in data display tools, the BSVL team has developed visualization and augmented reality methods that can more effectively support Army decisions.
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Underbody blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a major concern, and the BSVL team is developing tools to predict damage and causalities due to underbody blasts.
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Military experience and expertise is vital in developing study plans and understanding results in a military combat context so that efforts better relate to the military environment; and the impact of results on the military situation can be more readily understood by the Army community. This lack of military personnel impacts the value of the BSVL team's efforts for the Army.
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There is a continuing effort to strengthen and develop high-speed flash X-ray imaging for dynamic blast and ballistic assessments; this is an important tool for assessment of injury from physical models to physiological models, providing valuable feedback on the high-rate dynamic response of rapidly deforming personal protection. The ongoing development of enabling technology for detailed and realistic finite element models of humans for personnel vulnerability assessments is important.
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Indeed, such detailed medical information offers the opportunity to inform and develop more effective risk models based on battlefield functional capacity, rather than simple risk of injury or fatality reflected in the AIS scores alone. A related challenge for ARL in developing appropriately granular personal vulnerability A&A for military programs is the continued use of injury coding schemes such as AIS to classify injuries.
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These previous National Academies studies emphasize the limitations of both the physical models and the underlying injury biomechanics. For example, the expedient "Prather model" for ballistic BABT injury applied to soft VIP body armor for handgun threats in the 1970s was never intended to apply to rifle-round ballistic threats behind hard body armor.
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There has been much work, over many years, to improve and extend the capabilities of the digital human models and the accompanying soldier clothing and equipment models. This has allowed comprehensive static evaluation analysis and assessment of male and female soldier accommodation in ground combat vehicles and other systems.
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One of the areas of emphasis for the A&A Campaign is titled "A&A on Technologies." Currently, this area is limited to "SLV A&A of Technologies" and "Technology Trade Space A&A." "Human Systems Integration Technologies" need to be added as a third subarea. Emerging soldier interface technologies need to be analyzed to determine if they hold potential for application to future Army systems.
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It is important that anthropometric models that deal with more realistic scenarios and dynamic conditions for soldier protection be developed soon. ARL presented plans to develop digital human models capable of analyzing varied scenarios and conditions that cannot be analyzed today.
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Military experience and expertise is vital in developing study plans and understanding results in a military combat context so that efforts can relate better to the military environment and the impact of results on the military situation can be more readily understood by the Army community. There is a potential problem when a contractor or 5-year term employee is the only employee possessing a critical skill for a large project of major importance for the Army.
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Engagement with other services, NATO, TTCP, and other military partners should be further improved with benefits to the Army. Recommendation: ARL should review the use of contractors and 5-year term employees.
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