A -- ABLATIVE MATERIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY IN SUPPORT OF THE FY01 TECH BASE OBTURATOR PROGRAM

Notice Date

March 20, 2001

Contracting Office

US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000

ZIP Code

07806-5000

Solicitation Number

DAAE30-01-R-0525

Response Due

April 4, 2001

Point of Contact

Dorothy M. Bodine, Procurement Technician, 973-724-4800

E-Mail Address

Dorothy M. Bodine (dbodine@pica.army.mil)

Description

The U.S. ARMY TACOM-ARDEC is contemplating a sole source Purchase Order with Veritay Technology, 4845 Mullersport Highway, P.O. Box 305, East Amherst, NY 14051-0305 for Ablative Material Feasibility Study in Support of the FY01 Tech Base Obturator Program. The Contractor shall provide instrumentation, ablative materials and a portable data acquisition system to acquire thermal test data for a gun test conducted by the Artillery Projectile Team of the Artillery and Mortars Division of FSAC. The test data will be analyzed in order to investigate the feasibility of adding ablative materials on to ARDEC designed obturators for the reduction of cannon wear. The contractor, shall install, inspect and calibrate thermocouples on the Crusader LC3 barrel. The contractor shall support the Tech Base Obturator Ablative Test in the acquisition of IWTC data utilizing ARDEC obturators incorporated with ARDEC and Veritay Ablative Materials. Testing shall be conducted at ARDEC, utilizing ARDEC Obturator Designs with and without ablative materials fired with MACS zone 6 charges conditioned at ambient temperatures. A test matrix of thirty (30) rounds will be fired utilizing PXR6325 Projectiles retrofitted with Ablative Obturators. The contractor shall acquire the thermal data using its portable data acquisition system. The test shall be conducted within five months after award of this purchase order. The contractor shall reduce the gun test data, analyze and document the results three weeks after the completed Tech Base Obturator Ablative test. All information furnished for this task is unclassified. See Number Note 22.

Web Link

US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network (http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/RFP/01R0525/01R0525.htm)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010322/ASOL006.HTM (D-079 SN50G776)