09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Group Captain (ret’d) Dave Bernard
Former Head of Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency (UK MoD)
Defence Consultant

09.10 Operational Injuries And Lessons For Future Protective Equipment

• Medical perspectives on protective equipment
• Current injury profiles and weapons effects
• Environmental injuries
• Infantry beliefs and misconceptions
• Unanswered questions: Focus for research

Dr John Hagmann MD
Lieutenant Colonel (ret’d) US Army, Medical Director
Deployment Medicine

09.50 Simulator Requirements And Capabilities For The Dismounted Environment

• Blending live personnel and equipment with simulated actors to recreate dynamic scenarios
• Linking company training exercises in field with battalion level simulations
• Performance of simulator technologies in preparing troops for current operations

Colonel (Ret) Ed Davis
Deputy Director of the Maneuver Battle Lab
US Army

11.00 Multifunctional Design Strategies And Data For Body Armour

• Basic materials data for thermal management and body armour design
• Design and use of instrumented human surrogates for dynamic response
• Integrating protection and endurance in design

Dr. Peter Matic
Head of the Multifunctional Materials Branch, Naval Research Laboratory
US Navy

11.40 Mitigation Of Blunt Trauma For Dismounted Close Combat Helmets

• Iraq/ Afghanistan operations mild Traumatic Brain Injury dynamics and effects on helmet design.
• Comparison of helmet protection standards and current user requirements
• Systems Engineering approach to Impact protection, helmet stability and Soldier Comfort.
• Military combat helmet programs and linkages

Danny Crossman
Program Director, Defence Systems Pacific Safety Products
PSP

13.30 High Performance Fibre From Carbon Nanotubes For Armour Applications

• Cheaper and improved materials for ballistic protection
• Developing lightweight and elastic ballistic-grade carbon nanotube material and suitability for body armour applications
• Industrial nano-fiber production

Dr Alan Windle
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Cambridge University

14.10 New Materials For Improved Signature Management

• Signature management for defence clothing
• Increased threat in non-visible wavelength bands
• Demand for multi-functionality and weight reduction
• Personal camouflage in the future, trends identified

Dr Hans Kariis
Senior Scientist, Division of Information Systems, Swedish Defence Research Agency
FOI

14.50 Panel Discussion: Future Personal Protection: Proactive Development Or Meeting Reactive Requirements?

• Meeting the demands of Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs)
• Advancing technologies beyond the current environment
• Protective equipment development for soldier modernisation programmes; Equipment integration and load carriage design implications

Led by:

Group Captain (ret’d) Dave Bernard
Former Head of Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency (UK MoD)
Defence Consultant

16.00 Electronic Noses For Detection Of Explosives

• What is smell?
• Presentation of analytical instruments
• General overview of different types of sensors (e.g. Electronic Noses)
• Sensors versus Dogs

Dr Anna Pohl
Senior Scientist, Division of Information Systems, Swedish Defence Research Agency
FOI

16.40 Mechanism Study Of Ballistic Impact And Engineering Of Lightweight Body Armour With Improved Performance

• Developing technology for lightweight materials and improved ballistic protection
• Engineering armour fabrics to protect against ballistic impact
• Modeling and simulation techniques to discover nature of impacts
• Developing constructions for lightweight materials

Dr Xiaogang Chen
Senior Lecturer in Technical Textiles
University of Manchester

17.20 End Of Conference And Closing Remarks