Fiscal Year	2017
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Physics
Investigator(s)	Gamache, Raymond
Sponsor	Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (DoD)
Summary	Within this effort, NPS will continue to develop both a lightweight transparent face shield and an opaque face shield incorporating a camera system to enable operator to "see through" opaque barrier. Face shields will be capable of defeating NIJ level IV threats with a high mass efficiency. Both face shields will be integrated into current tactical helmets with the ability to both raise and lower as well as distribute impact energy from a bullet throughout helmet system. Transparent face shield efforts will focus on transparent ceramics integrated with impedance matched and energy absorbing backing materials. The opaque armor face shield will incorporate current ESAPI materials with an optical imaging system mounted onto the helmet and transferring the image to the operator.
Keywords	Face shield ballistic protection
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Data	Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal