TALOS: Military Developing Real Iron Man Suits
The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, is an advanced infantry uniform that promises to provide superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection. Using wide-area networking and on-board computers, operators will have more situational awareness of the action around them and of their own bodies.
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, known as RDECOM, is submitting TALOS proposals in response to the May 15 2013 request.
“There is no one industry that can build it,” said SOCOM Senior Enlisted Advisor Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Faris during a panel discussion at a conference at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., recently, reported Defense Media Network.
“The requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armor suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armor, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that — a whole bunch of stuff that RDECOM is playing heavily in,” said. Lt. Col. Karl Borjes, an RDECOM science advisor assigned to SOCOM.
TALOS will have a physiological subsystem that lies against the skin that is embedded with sensors to monitor core body temperature, skin temperature, heart rate, body position and hydration levels.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are currently developing armor made from magnetorheological fluids — liquid body armor — that transforms from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied. Though still in development, this technology will likely be submitted to support TALOS.
“RDECOM cuts across every aspect making up this combat armor suit,” Borjes said “It’s advanced armor. It’s communications, antennas. It’s cognitive performance. It’s sensors, miniature-type circuits. That’s all going to fit in here, too.”
SOCOM demonstrations will take place July 8-10 2013, at or near MacDill Air Force Base.
The request asks participants to submit a white paper summary of their technology by May 31 2013, describing how TALOS can be constructed using current and emerging technologies. A limited number of participant white papers will be selected and those selected will demonstrate their technologies.
The initial demonstration goal is to identify technologies that could be integrated into an initial capability within a year. A second goal is to determine if fielding the TALOS within three years is feasible.
U.S. Army science advisors, such as Borjes, are embedded with major units around the world to speed technology solutions to Soldiers’ needs. The Field Assistance in Science and Technology program’s 30 science advisors, both uniformed officers and Army civilians, provide a link between Soldiers and the RDECOM’s thousands of subject matter experts.
RDECOM MISSION
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command has the mission to develop technology and engineering solutions for America’s Soldiers.
RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army’s premier provider of materiel readiness — technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment — to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.
On September 23, 2010, Clark Gregg — the actor known for his recurring role as Agent Phil Coulson in Marvel Studios’ Iron Man movies — visited the Raytheon Sarcos research lab in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the unveiling of the company’s wearable XOS 2 robotics suit.
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Cool, but scary, wait until it can fly and shoot those cool little crayon sized missiles.
OK stop the crap any EMP gun would knock these suckers out with one blast……as I have always said the guy who invents these guns will be rich.
If people stopped obeying orders there would be no war.
We must be running out of acronyms; TALOS was a Navy missile, usually nuclear-armed, of about fifty years ago.
I want one! Is it available at Walmart yet? Al from TheDailyNeutronic(dot)com
Eventually there will be drone soldiers.
This isn’t ‘NEW’! This was news was at least a year ago. It’s funny too, because Raytheon’s crap won’t work as their design demonstrates that they have no idea how to make a real suit of pezo-reactive combat armour. The design they are using is like putting a frame, springs, and nonsense… on a human, without a serious power drive/reactor to make it run and operate at ‘beyond’ human capabilities for extended time in the field. If they actually waste money put these in operation; I can see these things resulting in troops being over burdened with more crap they don’t need for the mission, like they already have, and will end up making them even easier targets! As for TALOS, it is a video game concept. CONCEPT! Cool name for it, a bit of a Skyrim pinch, but even that design is a FAIL. I can tell just by looking at it.