DRDC Toronto - Significant Accomplishments

Significant Accomplishments

• Decompression Tables (DCIEM Sport Diving Tables) that are now used worldwide and have been adopted by foreign navies, commercial diving companies and civilian organizations to reduce the risk of decompression illness, once commonly called "the bends."

• Canadian Underwater Mine-Countermeasures Apparatus (CUMA) is a new diver mine-countermeasures (MCM) diving set with a depth capability of 80 metres (260 ft), as well as being anti-acoustic and anti-magnetic.

• The STInG (Sustained Tolerance to INcreased G) system, which provides G protection for pilots, superior to any current operational system.

• Virtual reality simulator for Helicopter Deck Landing to simulate the dangerous task of landing a helicopter on the moving deck of a ship.

• Clothe the Soldier project provided human engineering support to the Army's acquisition of over 24 new items of state-of-the-art soldier protective clothing and personal equipment

• Load Carriage Robot - an instrumented articulated manikin that mimics the movement of the human torso

• A Cold Exposure Survival Model (CESM) used in search and rescue (SAR) Operations

• A Heat Stress Calculator for Firefighters used throughout Ontario.

• The Pilot Anthropometric Scanning System(PASS) - a method of digitally scanning the physical dimensions of potential aircrew candidates. The cockpits of all CF aircraft fleets were assessed to accurately determine the body dimensions required to safely operate in these environments. A computer program then analyzes these sets of data to determine which aircraft fleets an aircrew candidate would be physically eligible to fly.