CTMA Project #: 142133
Problem: Events such as pandemics, trade wars, and terrorism, cyber-attacks can shutter factories, disrupt shipping, and make it difficult for manufacturers to get their end products whether spare parts or special tools from factories to the consumer. All of these events place a tremendous backlog on the supply system and present significant cost, schedule and quality risks to production and fielding of end products.
Benefit: Project deliverables will benefit the commercial vehicle industry by demonstrating how having effective and commonality parts and processes in place can help companies mitigate risks and reduce the time and money lost when product defects or uncontrollable events impact delivery schedules.
Solution/Approach: This initiative will develop and demonstrate a process using interchangeable hybrid part structures for armored vehicles to facilitate commonality or parts between variants and tailorability of protection packages to meet specific threats. To meet this objective, the DOD and industry team will use the Army’s AMPV as a surrogate to research and design a hybrid armor skirt to all five variant AMPV platforms ensuring the fleets future to enhance mobility, maneuverability, lethality, and operational safety.
Impact on Warfighter:
- Support supply chain diversification and resilience
- Provide rapid acquisition solutions
- Lower lifecycle maintenance costs
- Reduce amount of scrap and its associated environmental impact
- Increase operational readiness, and strategic flexibility
DOD Participation:
- U.S. Army Project Executive Office (PEO) Ground Combat Systems
Industry Participation:
- CLogic Defense
- NCMS
Benefit Area(s):
- Cost savings
- Repair turn-around time
- Maintenance avoidance and reliability
- Safety
- Improved readiness
- Survivability
- Energy efficiency
- Durability
- Lightweighting
Focus Area:
- Reliability improvement (hardware)
