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Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III (2012)

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Appendix B

Committee Meetings

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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13390.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13390.
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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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13390.
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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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13390.
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In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report Warfighter Support: Independent Expert Assessment of Army Body Armor Test Results and Procedures Needed Before Fielding, which commented on the conduct of the test procedures governing acceptance of body armor vest-plate inserts worn by military service members. This GAO report, as well as other observations, led the Department of Defense Director, Operational Test & Evaluation, to request that the National Research Council (NRC) Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences conduct a three-phase study to investigate issues related to the testing of body armor materials for use by the U.S. Army and other military departments. Phase I and II resulted in two NRC letter reports: one in 2009 and one in 2010. This report is Phase III in the study.

Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III provides a roadmap to reduce the variability of clay processes and shows how to migrate from clay to future solutions, as well as considers the use of statistics to permit a more scientific determination of sample sizes to be used in body armor testing. This report also develops ideas for revising or replacing the Prather study methodology, as well as reviews comments on methodologies and technical approaches to military helmet testing. Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III also considers the possibility of combining various national body armor testing standards.

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