This appendix lists the presentations to the committee at its meetings, fact-finding sessions, and a site visit during the course of the Phase III study.
FIRST COMMITTEE MEETING, AUGUST 9-11, 2010
ABERDEEN, MARYLAND
ATC Update on Clay Actions to Date
Shane Esola, Aberdeen Test Center (ATC)
Working, Ageing, and Temperature Effects on Roma Plastina #1
William Perciballi, Armor Works
Development of a Standard Ballistics Testing Clay
Isaac Peng, Chavant
Pragmatics of Body Armor Testing—Manufacturer Views
Dave Reed, Ceradyne
Commercial Body Armor Testing Perspectives
Donn Dunn, H.P. White Laboratory
Future Handling and Processing of Clay
Christian Action, Action International
Phenomenology and Material Response to High Velocity Impact
Yogendra Gupta, Phase III Committee Member
Pluses and Minuses of Clay and Future Alternatives
James Zheng, PEO Soldier
Gelatin as Future Testing Alternative
Robert Kinsler, Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
ATC Road Map on Phase II Recommendations
MAJ William Lash, ATC
U.S. Army ATC Welcome and Command Overview
COL Jeffrey Holt, U.S. Army, Commanding Officer, ATC
Helmet Testing Procedures and Demonstration
MAJ William Lash, ATC
Statistics Issues Related to Helmet Testing
Linda Moss, ARL
NIST Perspectives on Helmet Testing and Standards Development
Kirk Rice, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Helmet Testing Perspectives–USMC PM-ICE
Lt. Col. Kevin Reilly, U.S. Marine Corps, PM-Infantry Combat Environment
ARL/SOCOM Alternative Head Forms for Helmet Testing
Robert Kinsler, ARL
Dixie Hisley, ARL
Biokinetic Head Form and Traumatic Brain Injury
James Zheng, PEO Soldier
Commercial Helmet Testing Perspectives
Jim Martin, Chesapeake Labs
Prather Study Findings
Russell Prather, Phase III committee member
Experimental Study of Behind-Armor or Blunt Thoracic Trauma in High-Rate Loading Conditions and Follow-on Studies
Dale Bass, Phase III committee member
BABTA and Other Recent Approaches to Blunt Trauma Measurement
Michael Leggieri, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Center
PEO Perspective on Blunt Trauma Research
James Zheng, PEO Soldier
Analysis of Blunt Trauma Casualties
Edward Mazuchowski, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Perspectives on Electronic Sensors as a Future Alternative to Clay
Adam Fournier, ATC
Andrew Merkle, Johns Hopkins University
SITE VISIT, AUGUST 30-31, 2010
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND
Committee members in the instrumentation working group visited facilities of H.P. White Laboratory, Chesapeake Testing Laboratory, ATC, and ARL.
DATA-GATHERING SESSION, OCTOBER 12, 2010
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
Committee members on the statistics working group met with statisticians from the Army Evaluation Center and the representatives from the Office of the Program Manager- Soldier Protective Equipment, U.S. Special Operations Command, DOD Inspector General, and the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) to discuss issues related to the use of statistical protocols.
SECOND COMMITTEE MEETING, OCTOBER 13-15, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Summary of Instrumentation Working Group Site Visits
Larry Lehowicz, committee chair
Summary of Statistics Working Group Pentagon Discussions
Larry Lehowicz, committee chair
Alyson Wilson, committee member
Ronald Fricker, Jr., committee member
Update on Clay Experimentation and Specification Activities
Shane Esola, ATC
Differences in BFD Measurement Standards
Richard Sayre, DOT&E
Improvements in Helmet Measurement
Robert Kinzler, ARL
DATA-GATHERING SESSION, OCTOBER 18-19, 2010
KECK CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Committee members on the methodology working group conducted a data-gathering session at the Keck Center. Questions on prospective post-Prather testing methodologies were posed via telephone to Dixie Hisley, ARL; Andrew Merkle, Johns Hopkins University; Stephen Vatner, New Jersey Medical School; and Weixin Shen, L-3/TRACOR.