UNCLASSIFIED Assault/Special Purpose Ration Improvement Project Vicki A. Loveridge Individual Combat Ration Team Combat Feeding Directorate R&DA Fall 2008

UNCLASSIFIED Special Purpose Rations: Meal, Cold Weather (MCW) Food Packet, Long Range Patrol (LRP) First Strike Ration™ (FSR) Food Packet, General Purpose Survival (GPS) Food Packet, Carbohydrate Food Packet, Abandon Ship Food Packet, Aircraft, Life Raft FY08 New Starts: MORE – Modular Operational Ration Enhancements Assault/Special Purpose Ration Improvement Project

UNCLASSIFIED MCW/LRP Update MCW/LRP : Planned buy minimums 228,000 MCWs and 68,000 LRPs Obtained Surgeon General approval of new MCW/LRP menus Completed documentation for MCW/LRP delivery to DSCP June 08 Provide technical and engineering support to procurement of new menus of MCW/LRP Initiate product development for new items for a MCW test winter 2010

UNCLASSIFIED Survival Products Update Survival Rations: Support procurement of 36K GPS – Award 9 April 08 – Wintergreen tablet production support Support procurement of Food Packet, Aircraft, Life Raft-40K units – Award May 08 – Packaging size and type change Support procurement for emergency drinking water – Sensory and rough handling evaluation of two prototypes Evaluation of GPS bars

UNCLASSIFIED Survival Products update Survival, Abandon Ship–award May 08, 45K units –Navy requirement for 7 year shelf life –Commercial product deficiencies –1 st Prototype developed and delivered –Request for Quality Assurance and Packaging document updates – May 08 –Evaluations of product and package Product Demonstration Models –Procurement of shortbread bars from Survival, General Purpose –Evaluations with Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory testing escape immersion equipment in Doriot Chambers JSN Date: : Doriot Chambers test Sept 08

UNCLASSIFIED First Strike Ration™ Update Support to procurement of First Strike Ration™ –Award to SOPAKCO 18 March 08 Base year-96K cases –Ongoing support to procurement On site visits Engineering support cases Coordination with AMS USDA Nutritional database updates coordination with USARIEM Potential component producibility tests –Choice soup/spreads (oxygen scavenger package) –Bagels, Blueberry and Cherry turnovers, Cinnamon rolls In house producibility –Two Zapplesauce flavors, caffeinated pudding JSN Date: :

UNCLASSIFIED First Strike Ration™ Update JSN Date: : First Strike Ration™ 1 st Procurement in Iraq- 2008

UNCLASSIFIED First Strike Ration™ Update Storage studies –Completion of two year FSR™ studies from FY06 –Initiation of FY07 Component Storage: Energy Gels, Protein shakes, Tortilla Wraps, Soup/spreads, caffeinated pudding Development of test menus for First Strike Ration™ menu expansion field studies Small contracts for component procurement and test meal assembly Coordination of field study, questionnaire development and test protocol JSN Date: :

UNCLASSIFIED First Strike Ration™ Update Field evaluations for First Strike Ration™ –Sept & Oct 2008, 75 th Ranger Regiment Pre-Ranger Course 4 day tests, 50 soldiers Control ration FSR™ procurement 50 new components incorporated into 4 test menus –Army Technology Objective program with US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine & Performance Enhancement/Food Safety Team Field testing for nutritional profile optimization Two tests at Quantico, VA –International Mountain Guide informal evaluations JSN Date: :

UNCLASSIFIED First Strike™ Ration Update FSR test components – Tortilla wraps (Beef Taco and Pork BBQ) – BBQ Chicken Sandwich, Beef Stick Sandwich – NDI Chicken breast, Flavored Tuna, Spam, Salmon – Energy Gels (mixed berry and lemon lime) – Meat snacks (smoked turkey and cranberry beef) – Soup/spreads (Spicy cheese vegetable and Potato cheddar bacon) – Cinnamon Rolls and Bagels – Turnovers (cherry and blueberry) – Wheat snack bread (two piece) – Chunky Zapplesauce and Cinnamon Zapplesauce – Caffeinated pudding – Caffeinated mints and mint caffeinated gum

UNCLASSIFIED Modular Operational Ration Enhancement (MORE) Augmentation of Operational Rations with scenario specific products Extreme exertion, altitude, cold weather, sleep deprivation Target approved Nutraceuticals, functional foods, phytonutrients FY08 focus on high altitude enhancement pack Focus groups -10 th Mountain Division (Nov 07, Feb & June 08) July 08 Ethan Allen Mountain Warfare School Questionnaire to down select components 67 Soldiers 20 products identified Prototypes Assembled October day test Mountaineering group Nepal, India