Earmark - Advanced Vehicle Life Consumption and Maintenance Prognostics System

Agency:		Department of Defense--Military
Bureau:		Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
Account:		Research, development, test, and evaluation, Army (21-2040)
Certifying Official:		Deputy Comptroller Program/Budget
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOD.GOV 703-697-5131

Advanced Vehicle Life Consumption and Maintenance Prognostics System

1 recipient will receive $1,000,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: Advanced Vehicle Life Consumption and Maintenance Prognostic System: Cooperative research initiative between the NAC and AMSAA to collect data and analyze the fatigue life of selected components / subsystems of the Stryker ICV ( 1-6 vehicles ). Data from the Stryker ICVs' data bus and Height Management System will be augmented with strain gauges and accellerometers and collected using nCode's e-DAQ Lite equipment. nCode will analyze and develop methodology to assess the relative accumulated damage to and expected fatigue life of selected components / subsystems

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
nCode International, Inc	$1,000		For-Profit	Southfield, MI

Citation

Source: Appropriations Report Language - Conference

Reference: 108-622

Location: Line 14, Page 251

Citation Excerpt: Advanced Vehicle Life Consumption and Maintenance Prognostics System

Last Modified: 16-Apr-2007