INNOVATION ENGINE


SMALL BUSINESS, BIG DIFFERENCE An M1A2 Abrams tank belonging to 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment fires a round downrange during a live-fire exercise at the Udari Range Complex near Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in December 2015. Tactical engagements such as industry days connect businesses with TARDEC to discuss research goals and capability gaps, information critical for these prospective partners to develop effective proposals. As a result, senior leaders can engage with small business innovators to move ground vehicle innovations forward. (U.S. Army photo by SGT James J. Bunn, 19th Public Affairs Detachment, U.S. Army Central Public Affairs)


Small Business Innovation Research pro- gram and the Small Business Technology Transfer program are essential for our future success, especially in a resource- constrained environment,” said Douglas Tamilio, NSRDEC director.


Te key benefits provided by this project have been more realistic Soldier agent behavior in the constructive modeling, simulation and analysis tools needed to study the impact of encumbrances on Soldier performance. Tis can be espe- cially relevant as a planning aid to help commanders make better informed operational decisions before executing a mission. Additionally, the products can decrease the time required by ana- lysts to build scenarios in constructive simulations such as the Infantry Warrior Simulation.


THINKING SMALL FOR BIG EFFECT After launching a long-term science and technology strategy in 2013 based on the Army Operating Concept and other strategic documents, RDECOM’s U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development


(TARDEC) wanted to bring the


and Engineering Center full


resources of industry to bear in support- ing the Army’s vision for future ground vehicles while improving existing ground vehicles in the sustainment phase of their life cycle.


“Small businesses are our engine of inno- vation for emerging capabilities such as vehicle electronics and safety systems, autonomous driving, robotics, modeling and simulation, vehicle light-weighting and energy-efficient technologies,” said Dr. Paul Rogers, TARDEC’s director.


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“Our economic welfare and national secu- rity depend upon the creativity of people in these fields and the products and ideas they bring to the table.”


A case in point is Global Embed- ded Technologies Inc. (Global ET), a Michigan- based high-tech small business that creates and supplies power control electronics for military ground vehicle systems. Global ET is currently transi- tioning a SBIR-funded technology—a generator control unit essential to the upgraded smart power system in the Abrams tank—through General Dynam- ics Land Systems.


Mark Stanczak, the president and co- founder of Global ET, said, “We have an outstanding


with the Army


collaborative technical


relationship community


at TARDEC that has grown from the


Army AL&T Magazine


January-March 2016


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