Materials Development for Affordable Maritime Compatible Radio Frequency Materials

The primary objective of this Phase II SBIR is to fully develop, demonstrate and transition a State-of-Art Multi-Functional RF Material System applicable to a multitude of Navy Sea, Air and Land platforms that is producible in large quantities, affordable, maintainable, and sustainable. Primary emphasis will be to demonstrate the ability to achieve an index of refraction greater than 10 at 2 GHz in a material system with true structural properties (Objective #1). However, the proposed Multi-Functional RF Material System can be tailored to provide low to high dielectric and magnetic properties and low to high electric and magnetic loss, while maintaining the strength and stiffness of a conventional structural composite system. The true multi-functional nature of the material will also result in a system solution that will require less volume and will be lighter compared to current solutions. Finally, these material systems will utilize high volume composite pre-preg manufacturing techniques to keep the cost comparable to standard composite pre-preg systems in use today.