Improved Permeation Barriers in Lightweight Cost Effective Missile Canisters

This Phase I program will provide the MDA with innovative composite materials and automated manufacturing processes that will reduce moisture permeability, cost, and weight for future generations of missile launch canisters. SDC will utilize our expertise with launch canisters and detailed composites knowledge to develop a moisture permeability barrier for composite launch canisters to meet rigorous moisture sealing requirements for long term missile storage. In addition, SDC will integrate the moisture permeability barrier technology directly into the filament winding process to create a cost effective, automated, and efficient manufacturing process for composite launch canisters. The permeability barrier technologies and manufacturing processes developed in this Phase I will be validated by the production and testing of both subscale and full-scale launch containers under expected missile storage environments.