SBIR-STTR Award

Expeditionary Concealment System
Award last edited on: 2/4/2024

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Army
Total Award Amount
$1,205,618
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
A19-061
Principal Investigator
Charles A Howland

Company Information

Warwick Mills Inc

301 Turnpike Road PO Box 409
New Ipswich, NH 03071
   (603) 291-1000
   inquiries@warwickmills.com
   www.warwickmills.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Hillsborough

Phase I

Contract Number: W911QY-19-P-0267
Start Date: 5/31/2019    Completed: 3/31/2020
Phase I year
2019
Phase I Amount
$107,961
To fulfill US Military Expeditionary Concealment System requirements to enhance maneuverability, the Warfighter needs a support structure for camouflage netting that can be rapidly deployed and managed by 2 persons. Warwick proposes a post and beam assembly that is both modular and flexible. The structure is lightweight, cost effective, will deploy quickly, save labor, and easily support the load demands of both camouflage and rain. It will be capable of self-support with limited staking for wind resistance, and can be erected as a single frame or complexed multiple frames for larger assets.

Phase II

Contract Number: W911QY-21-C-0021
Start Date: 7/8/2020    Completed: 9/3/2022
Phase II year
2020
Phase II Amount
$1,097,657
To fulfill US Military Expeditionary Concealment System requirements to enhance maneuverability, the Warfighter needs a support structure for camouflage netting that can be rapidly deployed and managed by 2 persons. Warwick proposes a post and beam assembly that is both modular and flexible. The structure is lightweight, cost effective, will deploy quickly, save labor and easily support the load demands of both camouflage and rain. It will be capable of self-support with limited staking for wind resistance, and can be erected as a single frame or complexed multiple frames for larger assets. Warwick has demonstrated a full scale base frame in Phase I and is staged to iterate and improve the system design in Phase II. The Phase I demonstrator frame has been tested to fulfill the requirements from the A19-061 topic solicitation including wind load, axial load and the ability to deploy anywhere from 1 UCLANS system up to 8–12 systems. Full enhancement of this system through the Phase II effort will provide a cost effective and durable system to reduce the physical burden of the Warfighter, while significantly improving the strike and erect times for ULCANS system requirements.