Department of the Navy, Carderock Division Headquarters, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Bethesda, Md. 20084

59 -- ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM SOL N00167-97-Q-9090 DUE 021897 POC Contract Specialist: Ray Park, 301-227-1121 Contracting Officer, Joyce Bell, 301-227-1113. The contractor shall provide all materials and workmanship necessary to provide a handheld, electronic measurement system for quantifying the condition and/or status of an organic coating(paint) on a conductive substrate. The unit is anticipated to resemble a commercially available, handheld, portable, eddy current type paint thickness gage. Although the measurement approach is anticipated to be based on determination of the electrical impedance of the coating system, alternative technical approaches and configuration may also be considered. The effort is to proceed in e phases. In Phase I, the technology will be researched and developed and results demonstrated using breadboard wiring of the revelant microprocessor and sensor components in a non-packaged configuration. In Phase II, the system would be packaged in the proposed near-final configuration for field testing by Navy laboratory personnel in U.S.Naval facilities. Phase III, not covered here, would be a procurement of approximately 12 field test units for Navy evaluation. Design Requirements: The hand-held unit should consist of a sensing element, or cell, located at one end of the unit. This cell would be hand-pressed against the coating for less than 60 seconds. During the 60 seconds of contact an electronic microprocessor would generate and apply a controlled low AC voltage( (0027)

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