Advanced Shelter Technology

The ultimate objective is to produce a light weight, robust, rapidly deployable shelter that will perform reliably for the entire duration of the mission (however long that may be) and then can be simply and easily struck down (reversable)and stowed in a small cube until it is once again needed. FFF believes that with the new innovations and advances in our AirBeam shelters that this objective can be readily achieved without further modifications to the AirBeam shelter system. With this in mind the AirBeam frame and shelter will be designed to optimize the robustness of the system as a stand alone item, while allowing for the possibility to subsequently rendered the "temporary" shelter into a more permanent structure by applying a rigidifying technique. Once a shelter has been treated to render it "permanent" it must be able to withstand the forces imposed upon it by nature for the desired life span of the "building". What ever technique and materials utilized to solidify the structure they must be tested and evaluated to insure that the building will last.