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1 CHILD TO WORK DAY PAGE 10 MUSEUM MYSTERY ITEM PAGE 6 HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE SPEAKER PAGE 11 The Picatinny Voice Vol. 31 No. 5 Published in the interest of the Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., community May 11, 2018 Picatinny employees receive awards for innovation BY ED LOPEZ Picatinny Arsenal Public Affairs A senior Army leader presented awards to Picatinny Arsenal employees on May 5 that recognize their contributions to innovative research and development in support of U.S. military service members. Lisha Adams, executive deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, presented the Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene Award for Innovation to employees of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Center. Nine Army civilians, led by Justin Rhodes, received the Fiscal Year 2016 award for innovation by a group for their work on the Advanced Kinetic Energy Cartridge. The M829A4 tank cartridge uses a depleted uranium penetrator and other enhancements to make a more lethal round. GREATER LETHALITY The cartridge greatly enhances Soldier lethality and survivability through an advanced penetrator design and other innovative electronics, providing the Army with the ability to defeat heavy armor and other threats to armored brigade combat teams. Moreover, the cartridge provides armored brigade combat teams equipped with battle tanks the ability to counter enemy tanks in close combat operations with a single-shot kill, enhancing overmatch over projected threats. In addition to Rhodes, other group members at the ceremony were Triet T. La, Mohohan Palathingal, Gregory Malejko, Daniel Vo and John Grau. Edward Kennedy, Brett Sorensen, and Mihaly Horvath were unable to attend. The Fiscal Year 2017 award for group Photos by Jesse Glass Lisha Adams, executive deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, recently presented the Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene Award for Innovation to employees of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Center. The first group was recognized for its work on the Advanced Kinetic Energy Cartridge. Pictured from left, John Grau. Gregory Malejko, Justin Rhodes, Adams, Triet T. La, Mohohan Palathingal, and Daniel Vo. Edward Kennedy, Brett Sorensen, and Mihaly Horvath were unable to attend. The second award was presented for work on the project Rapid Fabrication via Additive Manufacturing on the Battlefield, or R-FAB. From left, James Zunino and David Sabanosh. Other award winners unable to attend were Ryan Petillo, and the Combined Arms Support Command s Capt. Mark Rodriguez. innovation involved the technology called Rapid Fabrication via Additive Manufacturing on the Battlefield, or R-FAB. The honor was shared by the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center s James Zunino, David Sabanosh and Ryan Petillo, and the Combined Arms Support Command s Capt. Mark Rodriguez. Petillo and Rodriguez were unable to attend. PRINTING AT POINT OF NEED The R-FAB expeditionary system consists of 3-D printers inside a two-sided expandable shelter that protects equipment during transportation and expands to provide a climate controlled work area. The system gives Soldiers the ability to manufacture essential parts and design new parts using 3-D computer-aided design and printing at the point of need. The innovative methods, techniques, and technologies used by these members of the Army team to develop the R-FAB sets the conditions to continue benefiting our Soldiers through continued exploitation of this capability in the field. ENHANCED READINESS, SOLDIER PERFORMANCE The Greene Award is part of the Army s Greatest Innovation Awards Program, which recognizes the technological contributions of Soldiers and Army civilians that enhance Army readiness and Soldier performance. The award program is managed by the Army Materiel Command in partnership with the assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. Greene, for whom the award is named, was the deputy commanding general of the Combined Security Transition Command in Afghanistan. While in that position, he was killed on Aug. 5, 2014, during an insider attack while the Marshal Fahim National Defense University in Kabul. He was the first American general officer to be killed by combat fire since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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