HY-TEK MANUFACTURING CO., INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: The use of high explosive powder obscurant (PO) grenades can cause serious injury and deat
HY-TEK MANUFACTURING CO., INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,048,908
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Solicitation
- 2011.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IL
- Period
- 2013-09-27 → 2016-01-26
Description
The use of high explosive powder obscurant (PO) grenades can cause serious injury and death as well as unwanted collateral damage in the form of incendiary destruction. U.S Army's objective is to greatly mitigate these hazards and improve the overall powder yield, dissemination and performance of PO grenades while eliminating the use of traditional explosive materials. HMC has shown through its Phase I SBIR research and development efforts, a new and innovative method for PO dissemination that consistently produces a + 90% yield with a minimum of powder agglomeration. This technique uses a gas stream to fluidize, entrain and aerosol a wide variety of powder nano-materials including metal flakes. The system uses a single gas stream which provides the necessary propellant energy and powder entrainment medium to accomplish efficient dissemination and dispersion of nano-material powder obscurants, including metal flakes.