Light Weight Chemical Protective Hand Wear

Current CBW protective flight handwear consists of three pairs of glo ves: an inner cotton liner glove for comfort and perspiration absorpt ion, a 7mil butyl rubber glove for agent protection and a nomex fligh t glove for fire protection. These three pairs of gloves when worn t ogether are very bulky and cumbersome making it very difficult to per form aircrew tasks that require high tactility, such as depressing sm all buttons and switches. The current Nomex glove is particularly bul ky due to the cut-and-sew technique used, which results in extra mate rial on every finger and in every crouch. Federal Fabrics - Fibers (F FF's) will evaluate the current state-of-the-art CB flight glove ense mble technology. Develop and recommend an integrated glove for use b y aircrew and submit material samples. A report shall be delivered t o NAWCADPAX on the recommended design concept. The first task of this project will be to test and evaluate the current CBW three glove syst em. Testing will encompass the areas of comfort and dexterity, chemi cal protection, insulating value and finally fire protective ability. The first task of this project will be to test and evaluate the curre nt CBW three glove system. Testing will encompass the areas of comfo rt and dexterity, chemical protection, insulating value and finally f ire protective ability. The second task is to produce a glove that p rovides equivalent or better protection than the current three glove system with improved comfort and dexterity. FFF will produce, test, a nd deliver both material samples as well as several pairs of gloves. FFF will make our internal test data available to NAWCADPX for compar ison with current system. In addition, FFF will deliver material sam ples and several pairs of gloves to the Navy so they can be evaluated and compared to the current three glove system at