“To conduct research on and develop standards for Warfighter injury mechanisms, human tolerance levels, injury risk mitigation technologies and health hazards present in the full spectrum of Army operational and training environments including aviation and ground operations, MEDEVAC platforms, combat vehicles and weapons systems.”

The USAARL Warfighter Protection Division (WPD) is comprised of three Branches
These are the Operational Survival Analysis Branch (OSAB), the Injury Biomechanics Branch (IBB), and the Airworthiness Certification and Evaluation (ACE) Branch. Our overall vision is to focus on injury prevention: primary protection in the identification of health hazards, secondary protection in the development of standards for better protective equipment, and tertiary protection in the advance of mitigating factors in the post injury phase.