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Appendix C: Selected Findings and Recommendations from Previous National Research Council Reports Related to Power and Energy Sources
Pages 34-36

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... The Army should refine duty-cycle estimates for the Land Warrior suite of electronics so as to enable the development of high-fidelity models incorporating soldier usage patterns and other details of interactions between power sources and soldier electronics. These estimates are essential for developing smart hybrid systems that can react to the environment for the future LW as well as for developing energy-efficient systems to meet unforeseen Army mission requirements.
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... The Army should support use of computer-aided design tools for systems and integrated circuits specifically optimized for low power performance. If the necessary design tools are not available commercially, the Army should support its own development programs, perhaps in conjunction with related DARPA efforts.
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... For example, data collection and reduction should be performed as close to the data collector as possible, and computational components should be distributed across the network of soldier communicators. The Army should exploit energy saving communications protocols, such as the protocols used to alert radio receivers to incoming data in pagers and cellular phones.
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  • power sources
  • energy efficiency
  • power requirements
  • energy sufficiency
  • achieve energy

  • design tools
  • developing smart
  • future dismounted
  • soldier equipment
  • commercial technology

  • monetary incentives
  • database caching
  • soldier electronics
  • combat effectiveness
  • related darpa

  • reducing energy
  • modular hardware
  • contractor performance
  • design parameter
  • reforms include

  • include speech
  • data transmissions
  • hardware designs
  • specifically optimized
  • circuits specifically

  • require major
  • army acquisition
  • commercial cellular
  • own development
  • electronic circuits


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