NANOSPERSE LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: ABSTRACT: Current composite USAF platforms suffer damage during media blast stripping ope
NANOSPERSE LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OH
- Period
- 2014-06-17 → 2015-02-13
Description
ABSTRACT: Current composite USAF platforms suffer damage during media blast stripping operations. This is a pervasive issue, with repair being laborious and costly, a material solution is needed to fill in existing damages to the composite skin and provide a protective barrier against future aggregate blasting. NanoSperse proposes to develop a spray-on, flexible, highly erosion resistant polymer system designed to fill current substrate damage and withstand multiple media stripping operations. The coating will adhere well to composite surfaces and be compatible with current USAF primers. VOC content will be designed to meet all applicable state and federal regulations and be usable in both portable and spray hanger applications. NanoSperse has the formulating resources to design a successful coating for this application and the scaled manufacturing capacity to meet the near term delivery requirements of the Air Force BENEFIT: $4.5M savings each PDM cycle. Potential to skip two pdm cycles in addition.