U.S. Army and NLA Diagnostics to Test System for Detecting Body Armor Flaws

NLA Diagnostics appear today that it has been awarded a arrangement for onsite testing of the NLA Defender at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass. The Defender is a carriageable non-linear acoustic NDI accessory advised to present a pass/fail appraisal of the structural candor of claimed anatomy armor.

An action as simple as bottomward bowl armor bowl assimilate a harder apparent can could cause bowl fractures that actualize centralized microstructural damage. If such accident occurs in a analytical arena in an armor component, it could accommodation its ballistic achievement and aegis capabilities. The NLA Defender is advised for testing armor bowl for accident on the battlefield, anon afterwards transportation, handling, or an adventure such as diving for awning or acknowledgment to a shock beachcomber blast. Troops who haven’t had top levels of training will be able to analysis anatomy armor while it’s accepting worn. The Defender will aswell be activated for accepted aliment and bloom ecology of armor systems during advanced accessories preparation.

Since breath layers of a bowl armor basic are hidden from view, beheld appraisal of the action of the armor is not conclusive. Quick acceptance to non-destructive testing (NDT) verifies whether armor apparatus are able for their purpose. According to NLA, the Defender surpasses accepted NDT because it does not crave several techniques to appropriately appraise altered locations of bowl anatomy armor systems. The NLA Diagnostics technology was originally apparent to accommodate accomplished accident apprehension capabilities on aircraft composites.

NLA Diagnostics is a newly-formed, veteran-owned, baby business committed to developing and commercializing a ancestor carriageable non-linear acoustic NDI accessory accountant from Theta Technologies, a U.K. company. The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (SSC) is the Army’s one-stop Soldier-support organization. SSC is amenable for researching, developing, fielding, and managing food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and Soldier abutment items with a ambition of accouterment America’s Soldiers with the best accessories in the world.