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Rifles, Optics & Side Arms Sustainment www.tacticaldefensemedia.com | January 2013 Special Section: Rifles, Optics & Side Arms Commander’s Corner BG John F. Wharton Commanding General U.S. Army Sustainment Command Rock Island Arsenal, IL Next-Gen Armor Reactive Armor CH-47 Upgrades PEO Aviation 528th Sustainment Brigade (SO) (A) TACOM LCMC WINDPOWER is the Source to Find Your Business Solutions VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO www.WINDPOWERexpo.org Solutions for Success AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit – West AWEA January 14, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance EDUCATIONAL & Reliability Seminar January 15 – 16, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA SERIES AWEA Wind Environmental Health & Safety Seminar January 16 – 17, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA GENERATING POWER WITH KNOWLEDGE AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill February 5 – 6, 2013 4 Washington, DC AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit – Northwest February 19, 2013 4 Portland, OR AWEA Wind Project Siting Seminar February 20, 2013 4 Portland, OR Scan this code with your smartphone to learn more! www.awea.org/events WP13(+events)_8.375x10.875.indd 1 11/26/12 2:18 PM WINDPOWER is the Source to Find Your Business Solutions Armor & Mobility January 2013 Features Recurring Highlights Command Profile Pioneering Protection Army Research Lab (ARL) is teaming with universities to develop the TACOM LCMC: Develop, next generation in composite body armor protection. 26 Acquire, Field, Sustain 3 By Peter Plostins U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Life Cycle Management Command is transforming Reactive Armor Evolution vehicle fleet growth and sustainment. By TACOM Public Affairs Heavy Brigade Combat Teams are employing the next generation in active tile protection on Bradley and Abrams platforms. Strategic Leadership 4 By Ashley Givens PEO Aviation Integration of Army aviation weapon SPECIAL SECTION: Rifles, Optics & Side Arms system programs and joint partnering 28 By PEO Aviation Public Affairs vwEnabling Battlefield Dominance Modernizing U.S. Army service rifles and side arms includes a Training & Sustainment VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO “dual path” strategy for carbines, enhancing sniper capability, 528th Sustainment 8 including better optics, and searching for new handgun protection. 34 Brigade (SO) (A) www.WINDPOWERexpo.org Solutions for Success By Kevin Doell, PM Soldier Weapons Providing global logistical, medical, Rifles ........................................................................................10 and signal support for Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) Optics .......................................................................................12 By Capt. Ryan M. Crosby AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit – West Building a More Dynamic Squad ............................................16 AWEA January 14, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA By TDM Editors Side Arms ................................................................................17 AWEA Wind Project Operations, Maintenance Extras .......................................................................................18 Departments EDUCATIONAL & Reliability Seminar January 15 – 16, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA Industry Spotlight 2 Insights Ch-47: Next-Level Performance FutureTech SERIES AWEA Wind Environmental Health & Safety Seminar Boeing’s CH-47 Chinook helicopter services range from transactional 33 January 16 – 17, 2013 4 La Jolla, CA 32 spares to life-cycle, performance-based support for U.S. and allied GENERATING POWER military customers. 36 Ads Listing/Events Calendar WITH KNOWLEDGE AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill By Bob Algarotti February 5 – 6, 2013 4 Washington, DC AWEA Regional Wind Energy Summit – Northwest February 19, 2013 4 Portland, OR Commander’s Corner AWEA Wind Project Siting Seminar BG John F. Wharton February 20, 2013 4 Portland, OR Commanding General COMPLIMENTARY U.S. Army Sustainment Command SUBSCRIPTION Scan this code with your 21 Rock Island Arsenal, IL smartphone to learn more! www.tacticaldefensemedia.com | Scan the code to sign up now! www.awea.org/events www.tacticaldefensemedia.com Armor & Mobility January 2013 | 1 WP13(+events)_8.375x10.875.indd 1 11/26/12 2:18 PM Insights As 2013 gets underway, DoD continues its transformation to a leaner, more agile joint enterprise amidst fiscally uncertain times while preparing for full combat force withdrawal from Afghanistan. A greater focus on developing lighter weight, more cost-effective technologies in the face of budgetary restrictions seems the ongoing norm as government and industry work to strike the right balance between capability and expense. Armor & Mobility ISSN: 2154-4476 The January Issue of A&M looks at Department efforts to maximize assets through life cycle is published six times a year by sustainment and increased R&D using lessons learned from more than a decade of wartime Tactical Defense Media, Inc. commitment. In an exclusive interview with MG John Wharton, Commanding General, U.S. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without permission is strictly forbidden. ©2013 Army Sustainment Command, readers will obtain insight into the executing arm of the Army Materiel Command as ASC works to equip and maintain the U.S. soldier in support of ever- Armor & Mobility is free to members of the U.S. evolving Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) requirements. military, employees of the U.S. government, non-U.S. foreign service based in the U.S. and As a regular feature each January, A&M looks at the latest DoD has to offer in military defense contractors. All TDM publications are sent rifles, optics, and side arms. This year, Project Manager Soldier Weapons (PM SW), DoD’s electronically to international readers. epicenter of Army-fielded small arms, provides some perspective on the type and variety of more than 720,000 weapon systems and 7.5 million accessories the organization has fielded Mailing Address Tactical Defense Media, Inc. in support of soldiers in combat. From the squad level, Maneuver Center of Excellence Leisure World Plaza (MCoE), Ft. Benning, GA, continues the Army’s transformation to a “small unit”-driven PO Box 12115 approach for addressing an increasingly asymmetric global battlespace. Silver Spring, MD 20908-0115 USA Telephone: (301) 974-9792 From “Tip of the Spear” readiness to cutting edge R&D, upgrades to the Army Research Fax: (443) 637-3714 Lab’s Defense Supercomputing Resource Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, are www.TacticalDefenseMedia.com enabling the modeling of high-strain materials such as the ones found in body armor across [email protected] multiple scales. The U.S. Army Materials Center of Excellence for Ceramic Protective [email protected] Materials continues to evolve as a DARPA-SPS (soldier protection system)-funded program [email protected] focusing on reactive tile technology enables ongoing development of significantly lighter than [email protected] passive armor solutions for Bradley and M1A1/2 armored platforms. Quarterly Publications From ground to air, a profiled look at Army PEO Aviation fixed wing, unmanned aircraft systems, and all DoD non-standard rotary wing platforms—including recent improvements to the latest CH-47F vertical lift workhorse from manufacturer Boeing’s unique perspective— gives readers an inside look at the Army’s life cycle manager of all rotary wing capabilities. In a newly featured column, the 528th Sustainment Brigade (Special Ops) (Aviation), Ft. Rucker, AL, a multi-component (Active and National Guard) unit, brings a diverse and nuanced mission angle on special operations sustainment. Unmanned Be sure not to miss this Issue’s Command Profile spotlighting Tech TACOM LCMC, Warren, MI, Solutions which develops, acquires, fields, and sustains vehicle-oriented weapon systems for the nation’s field combat force. DoD As always, feel free to contact us with questions and comments! Sincerely, Semi-Annual DoD Kevin Hunter Sonia Bagherian Editor Publisher Armor & Mobility Tactical Defense Media [email protected] [email protected] Proud Partners: 2 | Armor & Mobility January 2013 www.tacticaldefensemedia.com The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has Beatty said that the focus of this enterprise would be as much been exploring the challenge of how to make about changing the way people think about designing as it is about stronger, lighter advanced materials. anything else. “It’s a big problem to address every scale. We want to take what the world has discovered about designing advanced By Dr. Peter Plostins, Director materials, extend it to high-strain rate problems or electronic U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Enterprise for Multiscale Research of Materials transport, and apply it to Soldier protection and Soldier electronics.” Because materials and technology change over the years, The goal is to bring together the brightest minds in government, the way materials are designed evolves. This past year brought academia, and industry to understand how the many scales in the promise of long-term solutions. Recent improvements in the advanced materials work in conjunction with each other in order Army’s computational power, including upgrades to ARL’s Defense to better influence how designs function as a whole. The scientific Supercomputing Resource Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, understanding of advanced materials that emerges is greater than MD, enable the modeling of high-strain materials such as the any one entity could achieve. ones found in body armor across multiple scales, from atoms to molecules and/or from the tiniest
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