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This sources sought announcement and synopsis document requests capabilities statements from interested parties for a research and development project applying carbon nanotube technology to composite solid rocket motor cases. The Naval Air Systems Command, Weapons Division seeks to reduce the weight and volume of state-of-the-art graphite/epoxy composite cases for surface launched tactical missiles within +5%/-30% of existing configurations. Capabilities statements are requested to demonstrate experience with similar efforts and an ability to meet structural, environmental, E^3, aerothermal, and lifecycle requirements, including handling, transportation, storage, deployment, temperature/humidity exposure, aging, launch, and operational environments. Submissions are due by email to Aretha Jones and must not exceed five pages, addressing company details, relevant past performance within the last ten years as a prime or subcontractor, and responses to an attached questionnaire.
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Application of Carbon Nanotube Technology to Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Cases
BACKGROUND
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake, CA currently employs composite case that are moderately lightweight, and thick-walled to meet pressure containment and airframe structural requirements; permeable to (E^3) and do not adequately dissipate lightning. The permeability to E^3 and lack of lightning dissipation requires shielding of cables and sensitive electronic components/component grounds (many of which are safety critical) and implementation of lightning dissipation elements. These features are weight and volumetrically consumptive, resulting in a missile range penalty.
SCOPE
NAWCWD, China Lake, CA, is interested in applying innovative Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technologies to composite solid rocket motor cases to meet structural loading, aerothermal, and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E^3)/lightning requirements of a surface launched tactical missile system by reducing weight within +5% (THR)/-30% (OBJ) and minimizing the volume of a state-of-the art Graphite/Epoxy composite case configuration without sacrificing safety or handling characteristics of the composite structure.
OBJECTIVE
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technologies shall be applied to missile airframe structures that serve as rocket motor pressure vessels during missile operation and solid propellant storage vessels during the rocket motor lifecycle. The goal is to apply CNT technologies to a state-of-the-art composite rocket motor case such that it can meet surface launched missile lifecycle and E^3/lightning requirements within +5% (THR)/-30% (OBJ) of the existing weight and with minimum increase in case volume. The lifecycle environments shall include but are not limited to the following:
1. Handling, transportation, storage and Navy shipboard deployment environments
2. Temperature/humidity, aging and exposure to unplanned stimuli (e.g., fire, slow cook-off, bullets, explosive events, etc.)
3. Storage in container or within a launcher unused for up to 15 years
4. Safe and reliable launch and missile guided flight to an intended target, after 15 years storage
5. Rocket motor operational, E^3/lightning, structural dynamic and aerothermal environments during launch and flight
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