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This Phase I research proposal is directed at demonstrating the feasibility of decontaminating nerve agents on sensitive surfaces and equipment using enzyme-containing polymers. Nerve agent hydrolyzing enzyme polymers have distinct advantages over conventional technologies for agent degradation as they are compatible with biological tissues and wound sites, highly specific for chemical agents, an ...

Ships made from non-metallic materials may be lightweight and demonstrate low signatures, but require special lightning protection. This can be afforded using nanocomposites manufactured from carbon naofibers and durable materials such as Ethylene-Propylene-Diene Monomer (EPDM). This offers excellent electrical conductivity especially for high current pulses, but at the same time can extinguish ...

Current mechanical data storage devices will not be capable of handling the advanced sensor information required for testing sophisticated military equipment in the near future. Solid state recording is attractive to the military as it can provide the record rate and storage capacity required to capture high resolution imagery while offering increased reliability over traditional mechanical stora ...

Cored fiberglass composites are currently being used as structural materials on several Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) programs. They are also viable candidates for new designs for the LPD class and DD21 surface ship platforms. The challenge imposed upon these material systems is that not only must they be superior monolithic metal counterparts in structure, they are additionally requir ...

Vinylester resin is the workhorse of the boat and marine industry. This family of resin is low in cost, low in viscosity, chemically resistant, and possesses a cure cycle that ranges from room temperature for methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) peroxide to dicumyl peroxide for elevated cure vinylester . As versitile as these family of resins are, they do suffer shortcomings. Vinylester resins exposed to f ...

This Phase I effort involves synthesis of polymers via enzymatically catalyzed polymerization (ECP). ECP-derived polymers frequently have broad molecular weight distribution with branching, which can be beneficial for ionic conduction. Ionic conductivity approaching 10 -3 S/cm can be demonstrated for ective of this Phase I work is to identify promisi ...

Current fire-retardant/fire-resistant resin materials for composite panel systems in Naval topside applications do not provide the required levels of fire protection and combustion resistance. The need exists for a lightweight, fire-resistant resin systems that enables composite structures to maintain structural integrity following exposure to high intensity flames (without toxic rele ...

Topical Skin Protectants (TSPs) comprised of perfluorinated polyether oil thickened with PTFE are currently used to protect of military personnel from Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs). The existing TSPs provide an effective physical barrier to CWAs. However, they possess no destructive capacity toward the CWAs. The incorporation of catalytically reactive materials capable of neutralizing chemical wa ...

Systran Federal Carp., (SFC), and our subcontractor, Simpkins Design Group, (SOC) will integrate a series of primarily COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) hardware and software products and deliver and demonstrate a working helicopter simulator at the end of Phase I. The formulation of this simulator represents a single instantiation of a modular simulator concept that we conceived in 1995. We denot ...

The goal of this effort is to establish the feasibility and advantages of a new class of wide angle optical field flatteners which exhibit superior resolution and insertion loss when compared with other fiber-based approaches and, unlike the classical Piazzi-Smyth field flatteners, have a nearly unlimited field curvature correction range. This high performance field flattener technology is an ena ...