THE MATERIALS DIFFERENCE


FOCUS ON SOLDIER PROTECTION


Advanced helmets and flexible armor are two of the many Soldier protection technologies in which the Army is seeking improvements. Here, helmet and body armor belonging to Soldiers of the 100th Brigade Support Battalion from Fort Sill, OK, await the Soldiers’ departure for Afghanistan at the passenger terminal at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Alex Snyder.)


new and shareable underpinning tools. EMRM recognizes that the tools sit upstream in the actual materials research process, at a point where development speed can truly be influenced systemically.


MISSION-UNIQUE MATERIALS


Thus, no one agency or institution will do this alone. Where shared interests present opportunities, the ARL EMRM will work together with other U.S. agencies with equally significant stakes. Reaching beyond just coordination, there will be significant and meaningful cross- agency collaboration.


However, not all Army materials inter- sect the interests and missions of other agencies. Soldier capability gaps require consideration of certain materials under


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conditions and operating environments that are not present elsewhere. Many Army-unique materials must survive unique performance envelopes and per- form unique functions.


The EMRM will comprise both extramu- ral and intramural efforts for this reason. The extramural program will engage universities and other government labora- tories, while an accompanying intramural initiative will draw upon ARL’s wealth of Army-relevant science and engineer- ing expertise. This will yield a greater impact on the development of new warfighting capabilities.


As the initial structure will foster transi- tion of basic research results from the extramural partners into the labora- tory, so, too, will the maturation of the


internal initiative bring ARL-developed tools to the Army material develop- ment communities.


DR. PETER W. CHUNG is Team Lead for the Interdisciplinary Computational Sciences Team at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Computational & Informa- tion Sciences Directorate, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. He holds a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota.


Contributors to this article were Dr. John M. Pellegrino, Senior Executive Service; Dr. Cary F. Chabalowski; Patricia J. Fox; Dr. T. Richard Jow; Dr. John H. Beatty; Dr. David M. Stepp; Dr. Robert J. Dowding; and Dr. William D. Nothwang.


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