Rapid Expandable Mobile Shelter (REMS) for Expeditionary Squads

Hy-Tek Mfg. Co. Inc. (HMC) is proposing a new concept for military expeditionary shelters that is compact, lightweight, structurally robust and offers the rapid and easy installation and teardown logistics necessary to accommodate the fast paced, agile and highly mobile Expeditionary Military Force. The REMS concept developed by HMC is comprised of a simple articulating structural frame with integrated covering and an insulated floor mat. The frame design comprises two collapsible fan shaped walls that are mechanically integrated into a semi-cylindrical structural roof. HMC envisions that all side-wall and roof structural components can be designed and fabricated from ultra- high strength carbon fiber tubes that are telescoping and locking as required to facilitate easy expansion and contraction. The REMS concept design will incorporate lightweight, environmentally robust materials of construction that satisfy all materiel and performance specifications delineated by U.S. Army. REMS is expanded simply and rapidly by articulating the one-piece spoke frame over the floor mat in a manner similar to opening a 3-dimensional Chinese fan. The roof fabric is simultaneously drawn over the frame and later attached to the frame or side wall fabric by Velcro strips.