MATERIALS SCIENCES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N182-095
MATERIALS SCIENCES LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $124,989
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N182-095
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- PA
- Period
- 2019-01-09 → 2019-11-08
Description
The Marine Corps is seeking a lightweight, advanced track for upgrading the Amphibious Assault Vehicle. The challenge is to use material technology to engineer a system capable of not only reducing weight but also reducing noise and vibration and lowering the cost of production and lifecycle maintenance. Although continuous, non-pinned, rubber track has found uses in agriculture and lower-performance tracked vehicle applications, the Marine Corps is seeking new technologies to enhance the performance of the AAV on land and water. MSC will meet the challenge by using an elastomer system which allows for unique processing and reinforcement design that could not be performed using vulcanized rubber.