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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Mitigating Helmet Pad

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W91CRB-10-C-0033
Agency Tracking Number: A092-117-0184
Amount: $70,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A09-117
Solicitation Number: 2009.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-01-12
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-07-12
Small Business Information
11025 Roselle St., #100
San Diego, CA 92121
United States
DUNS: 010121565
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Douglas Giese
 CEO
 (858) 692-2128
 doug@agilenano.com
Business Contact
 Douglas Giese
Title: CEO
Phone: (858) 692-2128
Email: doug@agilenano.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

AgileNano™ and GENTEX®, the manufacturer of 1/3 of the ACHs in the field, propose a revolutionary, breathable helmet pad system to mitigate TBI and dramatically decrease thermal burden. Our Phase I demonstration will combine four types of protection into a single lightweight, integrated suspension pad system to mitigate both blast shock front and concussive injuries while greatly improving Warfighter comfort and performance. The first layer of AgileNano-GENTEX system will cradle the head and promote air flow, wick away perspiration and prevent the growth of odor causing bacteria. Next, the Flowair™ concussive protection layer, combines a mechanically strengthened, strain-rate sensitive, density gradient, polyurethane foam reinforced by a tetrahedral lattice truss textile system, with a low density shear thickening material (LDSTM) to meet the 17 fps/150 G blunt trauma requirement while promoting cooling airflow. LDSTM has already demonstrated impact attenuation of 61 Gs at 10 ft/sec. in drop tower testing. The percussive protective, outermost part of the pad system will use AgileNano’s AgileZorb™, a revolutionary nanotechnology-based, blast energy absorbing material. AgileZorb™ reacts quickly enough to smoothen and lower the supersonic shock front and was recently shown by the Navy to reduce transmitted blast pressures by 75% to 90%.

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