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

A -- ABLATIVE MATERIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY IN SUPPORT OF THE FY00 TECH BASE OBTURATOR PROGRAM SOL DAAE30-00-R-0530 DUE 052000 POC Dorothy M. Bodine, Procurement Technician, 973-724-4800 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/RFP/00R0530/00R0530.htm. E-MAIL: Dorothy M. Bodine, dbodine@pica.army.mil. 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 FY00 Tech Base Obturator Program. The Contractor shall inspect/calibrate the thermal instrumentation ports and their previously installed 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 Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma AZ utilizing five Obturator Designs with and without ablative materials fired with MACS zone 6 charges conditioned at ambient temperatures. A test matrix of sixty-five (65) rounds will be fired utilizing M549A1 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. Posted 05/31/00 (D-SN460023). (0152)

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