Army Power Division

Within the US Army s Communications - Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), the Army Power Division (ATO) is devoted to testing and demonstrating potential portable soldier power solutions. The ATO s most recent areas of interest in fuel cells are shown in Table 37.1. 

Mary Hendrickson U.S. Army CECOM RDEC, Army Power Division, AMSEL-R2-AP-BA, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5601, U.S A. 

Barbarossa, N.L. (1962). Garrison hydro-power plant transients. US Army Engineer Division, Corps of Engineers Omaha NE. 

The commitment of a large part of the British army to the Mediterranean and elsewhere meant that of the thirty-five divisions required for the cross-Channel invasion of France, only sixteen would be British, and that subsequent reinforcements would have to come from the United States. The overriding importance of the cross-Channel operation was such that from April to September 1944 the direction of Bomber Command was transferred to the American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in North-West Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower. The appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder as deputy supreme commander, with his experience of air co-operation in North Africa, ensured that optimal use was made of Allied air power. 

From the very beginning of modem fuel cell development, potential applications for military purposes were an important driving force and source of financing of this R D work. In the early 1960s, for example, the work of General Electric on membrane-type fuel cells that led to the power plants for Gemini spacecraft was financed, in part, by the US Navy s Bureau of Ships (Electronic Division) and by the US Army Signal Corps. 

Committee on Soldier Power/Energy Systems Board on Army Science and Technology Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies (2004) Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors. The National Academic Press, Washington DC... 

Terrill B. Atwater Power Sources Division, U.S. Army CECOM William L. Auxer Pennsylvania Crusher Corp. 

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