SBIR/STTR Research Award

TRIPOL Agent Defeat Submunition for BW/CW Warhead Intercept

Award identifier 7a97306fd012b0e3b75221e7c1f438b6254959752977302de92980cf07a1b7e4Awarding agency Department of Defense · Missile Defense Agency

Award amount

$69,890

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2002

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Missile Defense Agency
Recipient company
SOLUS, INC.
Proposal award date
Not reported
Contract end date
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UEI
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Solicitation number
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Topic code
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Research abstract

"SOLUS INC proposes an HE/HTI- and EMF-activatable, BW/CW warhead airborne intercept submunitions design based on TRIPOL agent defeat technology. A range of potential warhead-deliverable biological and chemical warfare agents (BWA) are resistant to defeat,even by high energy ionizing radiation and microwave exposure. 'Late descent phase' intercepts of intercontinental, and especially theater ballistic warheads may potentially involve survival, airborne dispersal, and settling of debris-embedded agents ofmass destruction over populated terrain. Therefore, technologies which enhance vulnerability of CW/BW warheads and which insure lethality of BW/CW agents within the airborne intercept debris field are essential in the era of bioengineered weaponry. Arevolutionary polymer design is proposed as a carrier of reactive chemical moieties that are generated within an ionized fusion plasma during intercept-triggered high thermal incendiary blast propagation The technology provides for broad agent spectrummultimechanistic kill via both chemoenergetic and ionization pathways. In addition, due to the incorporation of RF-transducing 'trigger' polymers in the TRIPOL design, the agent defeat kill components generated during an intercept HTI detonation can behyperactivated by inclusion of a compact, high-power, RF-generating explosively-pumped flux compression generator within the intercept agent defeat submunitions design. The proposed HTI and EMF

Technology keywords

Not reported

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

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