Heavy Vehicle Systems Armor & Materials Focus Day

7:30 Registration

8:00-10:00 AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity)

Conduct responsive and effective materiel and logistics systems analyses to support decision making for equipping and sustaining the US Army. Committed to giving the Soldier decisive capability to win across the spectrum of future military operations. Providing analytical expertise to help guide Army in selecting, acquiring, fielding & sustaining new technologies. Developing the analytical workforce of the future.

Scott Kilby
Operations Research Systems Analyst
AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity)

Learn about new self-healing materials for heavy vehicles!

10:15 - 12:15 Lightweight Nanostructured And Self-Healing Materials For Heavy Vehicles

Hear an in-depth update on the University of Wisconsin Composite Center’s work on light-weighting nanostructed applications. This brief will cover the new advancements being used for the creation of new materials that meet the demand for high intensity vehicles and can also control weight.

What will be covered:

  • Making heavy vehicles lighter
  • Metal matrix micro and nanocomposites and syntactic foams
  • Self-lubricating and self-healing composites

How you will benefit:

  • Review past and present materials
  • Understand threat and ability of materials

Session Leader: Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi
Director, Composites Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 Armor Procurement And Armor Material Requirements For Heavy Vehicles: Trends Through FY15

This brief will present the most recent forecast of armor procurement for heavy vehicles and the materials required to produce that armor. The forecast horizon is through FY15 and covers all ground vehicles and armor kits procured by the DoD for US forces. In addition, we will discuss armor materials most likely to be procured through FY15 and macroeconomic factors that will affect vehicle and armor procurement.

What will be covered:

  • Billions of dollars of armor that will be procured by the DoD for heavy vehicles through FY15
  • Armor procurement trends by vehicle platform
  • Armor technologies and materials requirements for heavy vehicles through FY15

How you will benefit:

  • Understand the market potential for integral vehicle armor, armor kits, and armor materials through FY15
  • Gain insight on metallic versus composite armor procurement trends over the next 5 years
  • Learn which vehicle platforms will drive ground vehicle armor procurement through FY15

Session Leader: Marcia Price
President
Vector Strategy Inc.

3:15 – 5:15 Workshop Update on Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

AMSAA is an analysis organization of the United States Army. AMSAA's overall goal is to provide soldiers with the best Army materiel possible. AMSAA supports the Army by conducting systems and engineering analyses to support decisions on technology, materiel acquisitions, and the designing, developing and sustaining of Army weapon systems.

AMSAA relies on highly skilled engineers, operations research analysts, mathematicians, and computer scientists to perform a wide range of critical analyses in support of the Army and Department of Defense. AMSAA directly supports the mission of the Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to get the right integrated technologies into the hands of warfighters quicker.

Session Leader:

Scott Kilby
AMSAA (Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity)