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Capability through collaboration
29 October, 2012
Personnel Survivability Overview
Mark Hodge - CEO
Vision & Mission• Vision:
Provide technology solutions enabling industry to enhance Australian Defence capability.
• Mission:DMTC will lead, facilitate and manage cooperative research in the defence sector in materials, manufacturing & related themes, with the Defence customer, industry and research sector as key stakeholders.
• Strategic Intent:• CAPABILITY THROUGH COLLABORATION
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Background• Defence Materials Technology Centre – DMTC Ltd.
• 1st Defence Future Capability Technology Centre (DFCTC) est. by Defence
• Business model based on the successful CRC program
• Funded for an initial period of 7 years from June, 2008• Core: $90M program ($30M - Defence, $8M - States, $52M – Participants)• Additional $20M program in Personnel Survivability - activity through 2016
• Staff level ~75 FTE (10 HQ) around 130 headcount (with Program 7 at full rate)
• Major activities across NSW, QLD, SA & Victoria (HQ in Melbourne)
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Personnel Survivability Partners
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Program-Technology Matrix
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repair for Al alloys & composites
& component systems integration
New/Lean manufacturing & Component Performance Modeling, Simulation & Validation
Prognostics, detection &
New generation
composite
materials & manufacturing processes
Robotics, automation & lean
manufacturing
Titanium component fabrication and
AIR PLATFORMS
MARITIME PLATFORMS
ARMOUR APPLICATIONS
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
PERSONNEL SURVIVABILITY
Maintenance, sustainment & support technologies (corrosion, fatigue, FOD, materials upgrade etc.)
repair technologies
Materials &
New ferritic materials & joining technologies Textile tech.
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• Activities– Pelvic Protection Systems
– Integrated Hearing Protection
– Individual Water Purification
– Combat Helmets
– Anthropometric study of personnel across Army
– Development of an ADF standard for ballistic resistance of body armour
– Developing concept technologies with DMTC Program 7
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Program Goals
• Improve level of personnel protection for armed and support personnel
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weight, bulk, cost etc.• ↑
multi-insult capability (blast/ballistic, agent protection)
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signature (visible/IR/radar), adaptive/broadband materials• ↑
utility & fit (design integration, power management, anthropometry, load carriage,
thermal management, etc.)
• Provide a path to field consistent with ADF acquisition requirements
• Address utilisation “valley of death”• Practical enhancement of protection and/or performance of soldier/personnel
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Participants
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Universities (4)
Research Orgs. (3)
Industry / End User (7)
Technology Areas
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Technology Areas Outcomes
1 Hard Armour Systems Manufacturing of ceramic plate inserts and semi‐rigid
panels for torso and head protection
2 Soft Armour Systems Fabrics with reduced weight and improved ballistic
performance for body armour
3 Advanced Fabric Technologies Fabric and garment technologies to improve strength,
comfort and service life of combat clothing.
4 Power Generation and Management Soldier‐borne power generation, storage ,distribution and
management systems
5 New Concepts Future integration planning and concept development
Project OverviewProject Objective
1.1 Ceramic Armour Technology Demonstration of a small scale production of ceramic body
armour plate using press and sinter technology
1.2 High Curvature Armour
SystemsDevelopment and demonstration of a pilot manufacturing cell
capable of producing 40 helmets per pay utilising the Double
Diaphragm Deep Drawing process.
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Project Overview
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Project Objective
2.1 Improved Anti‐Ballistic Soft
ArmourDevelopment of innovative, light‐weight fabric structures with
superior anti‐ballistic performance for body armour applications
Project Overview
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Project Objective
3.1 High Strength Fabrics for
Combat ClothingDevelopment of a proof‐of‐concept garment with improved
strength, comfort and service life performance.
3.2 Material Systems
Engineering for improved
Habitability
Development of material treatments to improve comfort,
physiological and protective features of combat clothing.
Project Overview
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Project Objective
4.1 Portable Power Generation
and StorageDemonstration of proof‐of‐concept in nano‐fibre power
generation, high energy density battery storage and portable
fuel cell power supply for soldier bourne applications
Summary
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Initial
Stakeholder
Meeting Held
Project
Proposals
Submitted to
DMTC
Project
Proposals
Shortlisted
by
Diggerworks
Project Kick‐
off Meetings
Completed
TWBs
Reviewed
and
Approved by
ACIB
Draft Project
Plans and
Budgets
Submitted
Finalise
Project Plans
and Budgets
Finalise
Project
Agreements
Authorisatio
n to
Commence
Projects
Amendment to
Commonwealth
Agreement
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