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#110579. Some older posts are more relevant now.
This board is highly advanced. Look at what the Army’s head scientist says about DS.
Big contract coming? Yup$$
Thanks Yankee


More US Army Shoot Pack Contract Details:

http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/07/16/super-silk-worms-may-key-better-body-armor/87096788/

"The fully-funded contract of $99,962 covers delivery of ballistic shoot packs, which are roughly 15-inch squares of material, for lab testing. The materials from the Ann Arbor, Mich.,-based company are due in April of 2017; if the Army is intrigued by the testing it can exercise an option for a $1 million contract to tinker with applications as well as the material itself in order to better fit ballistic needs. Rice said the company was looking forward to showing how strong and versatile its proprietary Dragon Silk is.

Dr. James Zheng, a scientist with the Army’s Program Executive Office Soldier, called this a first step to testing the new material. Zheng, chief scientist for project manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment, said that while the Army is developing and testing material solutions all the time, "Mother Nature has created and optimized many extraordinary materials."

"The outcome of this project may significantly impact our future research and development efforts for better, lighter and more comfortable protective gears for our Warfighters," Zhang said in an emailed statement. He said the new material could have "an ideal combination of high strength, high toughness, and bio-compatibility that no man-made fibers could reach."
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The small batch WEAVING machine lines at Warwick Mills are set up to weave 640 square yards per production run. Doing the math, one production run could yield approximately 3,600 15"x 15" shoot pack fabric swatches which will be layered in multiples and tested at both the Warwick Mills DOD approved 9001 destruction and ballistic testing lab and simultaneously sent off to US Army Natick labs for parallel testing. The parallel testing will significantly cut down on the time needed to get to the $1MM option phase of the contract - IMO.

Charlie Howland already knows the optimal DS yarn and weave to optimize DS fabric for the first round of shoot pack testing. Just waiting on enough consistent DS fiber to set up the looms and start weaving fabric -IMO.

yankeeclipper