PROGRAM VISION:

The purpose of the DARPA Armor Challenge - Phase 2 program is to identify revolutionary and promising new armor concepts both for military personnel and military vehicles.  This program is aimed primarily at inventors and small organizations that do not have the resources to initiate full-scale armor development programs.  The Armor Challenge - Phase 2 is an opportunity for developers to obtain a rapid and impartial assessment of their existing armor designs with testing of submitted armor panels in “shoot-outs” at a certified ballistics laboratory.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:

The focus of the Armor Challenge - Phase 2 program is to identify promising body armor concepts for military personnel and vehicles.  There is no requirement to include specific classes of materials in the armor, although it is anticipated that successful systems may be combinations of more than one material type.

The Armor Challenge – Phase 2 program has both a vehicle armor and a body armor component.  The Body Armor Challenge and the Vehicle Armor Challenge have completely separate weight and threat requirements.  A single proposal shall not offer both body and vehicle armor designs.  Each proposal must clearly identify its submission to either the Body Armor Challenge or the Vehicle Armor Challenge.  Failure to do so will result in rejection of the technical proposal.  For technical concepts submitted individually to both challenges, acceptance to one challenge does NOT guarantee acceptance to the other challenge.

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