OFFICE OF THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR MINES,
COUNTERMINE AND DEMOLITIONS
Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry
29 May 2002
LTC Arthur J. Aragon Jr.
Assistant Project Manager for Mines Countermine and Demolitions
973-724-7933
Ajaragon@pica.army.mil
Oldest Project Management Office in the US Army
Established 1961
ORGANIZATION
ARDEC
Project
Manager
NVL
CECOM
ARL
COL Bud Irish
Deputy
Project Manager
TSM ECS
DCD MANCEN
USSOCOM
USMC
Chuck Digney
Mines Division
Countermine
Division
Doreen Chaplin
Larry Nee
Demolitions/
Non Lethal
Division
Jim Tower
Program
Management
Division
George Firrincili
Office of the Project Manager
Mines, Countermine and Demolitions
MISSION
Responsible for the Intensive Management of
Programs From Development Through Initial
Production, Fielding and Product Improvement
FY02
RDT&E
WTCV
OPA
AMMO
TOTAL
Product Lines
Customers:
$111.2M
$19.0M
$31.2M
MP’s JNLWD
Engineer
Special Forces
Artillery
Infantry Aviation
$161.4M
27 PROGRAMS
2 ACAT II
Wide Area Munitions (WAM)/Raptor
FASCAM Mines
Next Generation of Scatterable Mines
Mine/Minefield Detect, Clear, Breach
Non-Lethal Capabilities
APL Alternatives
Demolition Systems
SOFSystems
APL-A
CONGRESSIONAL/PRESIDENTIAL
INTEREST
WAM OSD TEST OVERSIGHT
48 CONTRACTS
New Business Opportunities
• Munition Programs
• Anti-Personnel Landmine Alternatives - Track 3
• Alternatives to AP Mines in Mixed Systems
• Entire AP/AT Mixed Systems - Materiel and/or Non-Materiel
• Additional Alternatives to Non-Self Destructing APLs
• Continuous Broad Agency Announcement for Concepts
• RAPTOR - Request for Proposal – 31 May 2002
• System of Systems
• Sensors
• Gateways
• Munitions
• Control Station/Command and Communications
New Business Opportunities
(Cont.)
• Demolition Programs
• Modernized Demolitions Initiators (MDI) - FY03 Production of :
• XM19/XM21/XM23 - Cap, Blasting: dual, in-line initiator,
non-electric, 200/500/1000 ft (respectively) minitube
• XM20/XM22 - Inert XM19/XM22, respectively
• New starts - FY03
• Advanced Linear Shape Charges
• Cratering Charge
• Remote Shock Tube Initiator
• Infantryman’s Wall Breaching Kit
New Business Opportunities
(Cont.)
• Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) - On-going
• Army’s Non-Lethal (NL) Capability Sets
• Joint NLW Program Joint Mission Need Statement - 3QFY02
• Identifies 8 functional areas for NLW Development
• Concept Exploration Programs being pursued for FY00-04
• Countermine Programs - FY03
• Airborne Standoff Minefield Detection System (ASTAMIDS)
Block 1
• Surface and recently buried minefields and obstacles
• Ground Standoff Mine Detection System (GSTAMIDS) Block 1
• Confirmation sensor with GPR/Magnetic/IR sensors
• Mine neutralizer
Technologies of Interest
Communications, Command and Control
IR Sensing
Acoustic Sensing
Seismic Sensing
Magnetic Sensing
Explosively Formed Penetrators
Shape Charge
Ground Penetrating Radars
Blast Effects
Automatic Target Recognition
Robotics
Quadrupole Resonance
PROJECT MANAGER
for
Mines ,
Countermine
&
Wide Area Munition
(Hornet)
Non-Self Destruct
Alternative
(APL-A Track 1)
Ground Standoff
Minefield Detection System
Demolitions
Modular Crowd
Control Munition
Interim Vehicle Mounted
Mine Detector
Non-Lethal Capability Set
Intelligent Combat Outpost
(Raptor)
Selectable Lightweight
Attack Munition
Rattler
(APL-A Track 3)
Hand-held Standoff
Mine Detection System
VOLCANO
Fighting
Position Excavator
Anti-Personnel
Proc (12)
1.059b
Landmine
RDT&E (15) 1.252b
Alternatives (APL-A) Total
2.311b
FY02 - FY09
Portable Vehicle
Arresting Barrier
Non-Lethal
Weapons
Sympathetic
Detonator
Point of Contact
Mr. Kevin T. Wong
Manager, International and Advanced Programs
973-724-6118
Kwong@pica.army.mil
http://mcdweb.pica.army.mil/