Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[Deannie]

Herculite Mil-Spec is the kind of product that highlights the notion that whatever spiderish silk KBLB produces in a lab would have to be cost-effective. The government won’t buy it at “any cost”. Silk won’t necessarily create brand new and never-before-seen products, but rather replace ingredients/components in existing products to make them better and/or lighter. There’s a limit to what the gov’t will spend on a better product if what’s out there already does a good job for the money. We’ll never see a six figure bullet proof vest issued to troops (maybe not even five figures for that matter). If it gets to the point where KBLB ever produces silk in an AF-funded lab, it’ll be very interesting to find what the price per kilo would be to sustain a business case. We’ll see, just not anytime soon.