GOODMAN TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF181-048

Description

With new weapons such as high-power microwaves and nuclear-tipped hypersonic cruise missiles now being tested and potentially deployed by Russia and China, and the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, the Air Force requires aeroshell materials with improved EMI/EMP and HEMP shielding effectiveness (SE) and radiation hardening. The proposed research by Goodman Technologies, Nuclear Radiation Hardening Associates, and the University of Hawaii (a Navy UARC) team will benefit the ICBM, cruise missile and hypersonic weapon industries by dramatically increasing the survivability of the electronics and materials within the aeroshell.We will use cure-on-the fly, nanoresin, and nanotape technologies with current composite manufacturing braiding and winding techniques to produce nanocomposites with SE superior to the Mk-21 aeroshell, while also having layers of low Z and high Z materials to harden against neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays. We will use a very innovative ablation-sublimation layer for cooling during hypersonic reentry. Our technology provides the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center ICBM Directorate a retrofit opportunity for Minuteman III sustainment as well as a potential design for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent and other strategic air platforms and cruise missiles.