SBIR/STTR Research Award
TRIPOL Agent Defeat Submunition for BW/CW Warhead Intercept
Award amount
$69,890Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- SOLUS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
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
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