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ARDEC Fuze S&T and Acquisition 57Th Annual Fuze Conference UNCLASSIFIED Unclassified U.S. ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, & ENGINEERING CENTER (ARDEC) ARDEC Fuze S&T and Acquisition Feedback on Performance Improvement Plan Activity 57th Annual Fuze Conference Thomas M. Crowley Philip T. Gorman Jr. Karen M. Amabile Chief, Munitions Fuzing Branch Chief Fuze Technology Portfolio Manager Fuze Division Fuze Division Fuze Division 973-724-5678 973-724-7307 973-724-2393 <[email protected]> <[email protected] <[email protected]> DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release 1 Unclassified UNCLASSIFIED ARDEC Organization Chain of Command Army Materiel Command AMC Commanding General Research, Development & Engineering Command RDECOM Commanding General ARL AMRDEC Army Research Laboratory Aviation & Missile Research, Development NSRDEC TARDEC & Engineering Center Natick Soldier Research, Development & Tank Automotive Research, Engineering Center CERDEC Development & Engineering Communications- Electronics Center Research, Development & Engineering Center ARDEC ECBC Armament Research Edgewood Chemical Development & Biological Center Engineering Center Munitions Weapons & Enterprise & Engineering Software System Technology Engineering Integration Center Center Center DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release 2 UNCLASSIFIED Unclassified Team Picatinny Other Tenants Assigned/Direct Support Coordination PEO Soldier • Population 4,167 PM Soldier • 6,493 Acres ASA, AL&T • 804 Buildings Weapons • 64 Laboratories AMC PEO Integration PM Lethality PEO GCS JM&L LCMC TACOM LCMC NETCOM IMA PM JLW155 RDECOM DCMA DOIM Garrison Commander DCMA NE PEO Ammo/CG CPAC PM MAS PM CAS PD JP PM CCS Navy ARDEC PM TAS PD JS US SOCOM ACC DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release Unclassified UNCLASSIFIED Fuze Division Expertise • Low Cost Electronic Fuzing • Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms • MMIC Radar Transceivers • RF Components Design & Testing • Analog and Digital Circuit Design • Fuze Testers (RF and IF Simulators) • ECM Evaluation • Ultra miniature fuzes • Antenna design • MEMS S&As • Design for High G Launch Loads • CAD/CAM Design and Layout • Rapid Prototype Fabrication • Power sources • Fuze setters DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release UNCLASSIFIED 4 UNCLASSIFIED Commodity Areas Medium Caliber Fuzes Mortar Fuzes Artillery Fuzes Safe and Arm Devices Fuze Setters Tank Ammo Hand Grenades Rockets & Missiles DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release 5 5 UNCLASSIFIED Unclassified ARDEC Mission Life Cycle Engineering & Support ARDEC Video PAX 41 Advanced KE PAX 3 Common Smart Submunition Research & Excalibur STAR Development Plasma Arc Furnace SUPPORT TOTAL Lightweight Handheld Demilitarization LIFE Production Mortar Ballistic Computer CYCLE Field Support Lake City Army Cryofracture Ammunition Plant Lightweight Dummy, Drilled, Dismounted Mortar Inert Small/Cannon Caliber M900 Armor Ammunition Piercing Cartridge M240B 7.62MM Machine Gun 40mm Multi-Shot DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release Launcher Unclassified UNCLASSIFIED ARDEC Fuze S&T Launch & Target Sensing Advanced Fuze Setting S&T Thrust Areas Fuze Decision Logic EPIAFS Reduced Tailorable logistical PIAFS Effects burden iPIK MEMS Acceleration / Impact Switch Innovative Packaging Schemes EM Modeling & Simulation Next Generation Prox Sensors Complex data processing Army Challenge: Create Operational Overmatch (enhanced lethality & Enhanced Target Media Sensing accuracy) Lethality Next Generation of Advanced Munitions Advanced Safe & Arming Novel Power & Energy Advanced Warhead Initiation Schemes Anode Electrolyte Cathode Scalable ss electrode Pyrotechnic heat pellet Effects High Microscale Firetrain Miniature Firesets Reliability MEMS S&A Thermals Liquid Reserves Low Cost Multipoint Rotor S&A Electromechanical S&A Energy Harvesters Electronic Safe & Arm Devices Initation DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release - Unclassified 7 UNCLASSIFIED Fuze S&T and Acquisition Efforts Emerging & MaturingTechnologies (6.2 OSD Joint Fuze Technology Program) Target Classification Prox for Tailorable Whds Nano-Foil Heated Thin Film Thermal Battery (Current 6.3 OSD Joint Fuze Technology Program) PGK IMX-101 Compatibility Next Generation Proximity Sensor for Prox Fuzing MEMS Retard & Impact Sensor On-going 6.6 Fuze (RDECOM/ARDEC S&T Projects & Demonstrations) Technology Integration Future Initiation, Target Detection, Fuze Setting, Power Next Generation Prox Fuzing (includes OSD sponsored DEF) Distributed Multi-point Initiation Thin Film Power Sources MEMS Impact Switch Target Sensing EMD/Production support Fuzing for Cluster Munition Replacement for PM MAS, PM CAS, 120mm Guided Mortar Low Volume and Low Power Prox PM CCS, PD JP Direct Fire Prox Sensor - (Joint Non Lethal Dir) Autonomous Target Sensing for Shoulder Fired Airburst/PD and PD delay for Tank Ammo Command Arm MEMS S&A w/ Prox for 40mm Enhanced Multi-Purpose Grenade Low cost air dropped precision guided munition MEMS Safe & Arm Reliability & Manufacturing DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release - UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Advanced Proximity Sensor Technologies Next Generation Proximity Sensors A Joint Fuze Technology Program ARDEC led with technical participation by AFRL, NAWC-WD Advanced next-generation low cost sensor technologies to provide • Enhanced battlefield performance • Small form fit precision burst point control Research in the area of: Miniature Software Defined • FMCW, Spread Spectrum, Stepped Frequency RADAR Systems Sensors • Novel Digital Signal Processing Range Extraction Techniques • Improved performance RF front ends for miniature sensors Target Classification Sensors for Fuzing Applications A Joint Fuze Technology Program Advanced Simulation toolsets for prediction of FMCW data for complex Novel Signal Processing Techniques targeting scenes • Mesh based object / scene creation • Shooting-Bouncing-Ray Solver • Generation of IF return data for use in algorithm development and performance estimation Classification Technique Research • Range profile, feature extraction • Range vector envelope correlation techniques Advanced targeting scene modeling DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Proximity Sensor Development and Production Support M789 / XM799 Prox XM1112 Airburst Non- DevelopmentSensor of autonomous airburst capability for the LW30 apache weapon system Lethal Munition (ANLM) • Custom Power Source Direct Fire proximity sensor technology • Custom MMIC transceiver • Custom signal processor, MMIC transceiver, and power source • Custom signal processor • Initial demonstrations and tactical electronics design completed in- • Custom antenna designs house • Integration, Design, Fabrication, and Test in- • Currently in Developmental Test house Small Arms Grenade Precision Acquisition Munition (SAGM) Development of a miniaturized defilade detection prox sensor system Weapon System (PAWS) • Developed using government owned technology • Defilade detection to support PM MAS’s Increased Range Anti- Proximity sensor for a lethal UAS Personnel (IRAP) program • Design and Fabrication • Integration with custom battery and MEMS based fuze • Evaluation and Qualification • Field Test Support M782 Multi-Option Fuze for • Completed in-house at ARDEC Artillery (MOFA) Integrated Sensor and Fuze electronics ORIOLE Medium Altitude Prox Sensor • Custom signal processor, MMIC transceiver, and power source • Initial demonstrations and designs completed in-house • Detection of tree canopy at 150m • Production Item • Custom high power transceiver section • Custom antenna sub-system design M734A1 Multi-Option Fuze • FPGA based software defined sensor • Directional Doppler Ratio Ranging Firmware developed for Mortars (MOFM) in-house Integrated Sensor and Fuze electronics • All design, fabrication, and qualification completed in-house • Custom signal processor, MMIC transceiver, and power source • Initial demonstrations and designs completed in-house DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release • Production Item UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Safe &Arm (S&A) and G-Switch • Small Size Increased payload potential Lid Robotic Micro-Assembly Improved warhead potential Initiator Board • Machine vision inspection Volume to add advanced sensors Cover • Kitted parts • Reduced tolerances on no-arm/arm distances • Two-micron placement Mechanism accuracy • Command arm function and optional Self-Destruct • Gun Hardened Output Base • 2,000 to 100,000g Setback • 2,800 to 60,000 RPM Spin Metal Can • Enabling technology for adv. Prox,W/H, UAS, etc. • Broad application across munitions • Disruptive to technology base (clockworks) ONYX500 Platform inspecting and kitting parts • TRL 6 (low-velocity 40mm), now in Mfg. Facilitization MEMS G-Switches MEMS S&A Packaged, showing size reduction 46,000 impact switches produced - 2 x 2 mm footprint - Multi-axis sensitivity Artillery M550 - 250-, 500-, and 1000-G available - Spin switch configuration available Multi-Threshold Impact Characterization Switch - 4 x 4 mm footprint - Distinguish hard/soft target impact DCX Integrating G-Switch - Setback acceleration sensor DCX DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A – Approved for Public Release UNCLASSIFIED Unclassified Electronic Safe and Arm Technologies • Low Cost Components • Low cost ceramic capacitors • Alternative High Voltage switch technologies • Custom flyback transformers High Cost Low Cost • Non-magnetic transformers Components
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