EXOTHERMICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: MDA13-025

Description

This Phase II SBIR proposal addresses the requirement to significantly improve the affordability and mission performance of SDACS propulsion components by embarking on a program to develop and optimize hafnium-based or hafnium hafnium nitride claddings for advanced structural insulator substrate materials of current interest to MDA programs.Phase II partner Materials Research & Design (MR&D), Wayne, PA, will develop optimized component designs that will then be fabricated by Exothermics for propellant simulation testing.The Ph2 program will make use of a combined thermostructural design and materials selection approach that will support an overall program to develop cost-effective and highly flexible fabrication approaches for enhancing the performance of structural insulator materials by making protective claddings via mechanical encapsulation or diffusion bonding methods.Exothermics will fabricate pintle-type and throat-type SDACS test articles will be subjected to multiple rounds of simulated SDACS simulation testing at one of the propulsion primes.Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8169 (20 March 15)