Rapidly-Installed, Transferable, Tiled Armor (RITTA)

"The DoD needs to rapidly add and then subsequently remove protective armor to and from civilian vehicles without altering their external appearance and without permanently altering their interior. Existing solutions are heavy, bulky, and are time consuming to install. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is teamed with an existing armor manufacturer to provide both opaque and transparent solutions that can be fitted and field-installed in a few hours with minimal training. The building-block based approach uses common components to assemble tailored opaque panels as well as custom-fit window sections. The panels are easily installed, removed, and transferred between vehicles of the same type. Once removed, the common components can also be reconfigured and reused in a different type of vehicles. Both the opaque and transparent armors are based on existing composite armor systems. The ballistic performance of these systems has been extensively tested and fielded for many years. The initial development will transform these existing solutions to kits that can be fielded immediately. Future research will further reduce the weight and volume required to meet various threat levels."