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Innovative Lightweight Small-Arm Polymer Cased Ammunition

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15QKN-06-C-0049
Agency Tracking Number: A052-011-0844
Amount: $119,987.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A05-011
Solicitation Number: 2005.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-12-15
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-06-15
Small Business Information
26 Robert Street
Parsippany, NJ 07054
United States
DUNS: 112121962
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jerry Chung
 President
 (973) 989-8463
 jerrychung@frontierpolymer.com
Business Contact
 Jerry Chung
Title: President
Phone: (973) 989-8463
Email: jerrychung@frontierpolymer.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

To ensure that America's soldiers maintain their overwhelming combat edge into 21st century, use of lightweight polymers as the cartridge case material can alleviate a significant portion of this weight burden for soldiers. The objectives of this proposal is to demonstrate Frontier's innovative design and material technologies to produce high performance, lightweight small arm polymer cased ammunition that will achieve Army's goal of reducing combat soldier's load by 30 percent and increase his mobility. Recognizing the major root causes of past failures, Frontier has developed an innovative polymer cartridge case design and two proprietary polymer materials expected to overcome many potential failure modes of existing polymer case development efforts, such as insufficient ballistic performance, cracks on case mouth, neck, body and/or base, bonding failure of the metal-plastic hybrid case, difficulty of extraction from the chamber, incompatibility with propellant. It has the potential to achieve ballistic performance, be compatible with current cartridge manufacturing and assembling process, and be capable of operating under open and close bolt operation environments, while weighing 30 percent less than current system. Moreover, the technology can be applicable to not only 5.56mm but can also be readily used for 7.62mm and .50 caliber cartridge cases.

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