Contract R&D and Product Design:

Since our inception in January 1988, we have performed services for:

Corporate Clients

Government Clients

A listing of contracts demonstrates the breadth of our innovations.

Corporate clients:

Silicon Valley Group (SVG)
Union Carbide/UOP
Black & Decker and
Crompton & Knowles

Government clients:

• Dept. of Defense:
  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Navy
  • DARPA
  • Missle Defense Agency (MDA)
• NASA:
  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Glenn Research Center
• Dept. of Energy

We have been recipient of sixteen (16) federal research contracts (Table I). A brief description of some of our R&D programs follows.

As a corporate policy, we participate in only those R&D programs which have a definite commercial potential.

DURACON Coatings: Over the last 4 years, we have supplied these unique coatings to a long list of commercial customers and universities including but not limited to:

• Raytheon: Four divisions in MA, PI, and NM
• British Aerospace: Infra-red Systems (UK) and Sanders in NH
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• SVG
• Ophir Optronics & Instruments (Israel)
• InVivo Research
• UDT Sensors
• Universal Instruments
• SATAKE USA
• PerkinElmer Optoelectronics
• Xenogen

• Cambridge University
• SUNY - Buffalo
• Arizona State University
• University of Alaska

LIST OF RESEARCH CONTRACTS

1. Automated Defect Analysis F33615-93-C-1252 Air Force

2. Far Infra-Red Detectors F33615-93-C-1275 SDIO/Air Force

3. Enhanced Quantum-Dot Non-Linear
Optical Materials F49620-92-C-0003 SDIO/AFOSR

4. Filled, Adherent Polymeric Coatings
for High Emissivity IR Thermography N60921-91-C-0152 NSWC

5. Life Prediction of Aging Aircraft
Wiring Systems (Phase I) F33615-95-C-5620 AFWL

6. Life Prediction of Aging Aircraft
Wiring Systems (Phase II) F33615-96-C-5633 AFWL

7. Tunable Narrowband MQW Optical
Filters with Wide Angle Acceptance NAS5-33253 NASA-GSFC

8. Heterostructure Acoustic Charge Transport
(HACT) Spatial Light Modulators (SLM's)
for 3-D Optical Memory Interconnects F30602-97-C-0058 AF Rome Lab

9. Coatings for Titanium Alloys (Phase I) NAS8-38917 NASA/MSFC

10. Coatings for Titanium Alloys (Phase II) NAS8-39373 NASA/MSFC

11. Calcium-Zirconium-Phosphates: New Materials
for Space-Borne Optical and Structural
Components (Phase I) DASG60-88-C-0119 SDIO/Army SDC

12. Calcium-Zirconium-Phosphates: New Materials
for Space-Borne Optical and Structural
Components (Phase II) DASG60-89-C-0123 SDIO/Army SDC

13. MoSi2/SiC Fiber Reinforced Components
for structural Applications DAAH01-89-C-0892 DARPA

14. Development of High Temperature
MoSi2/SiC Laminated Composites N00014-89-C-0303 SDIO/ONR

15. High Temperature Composite Materials for
Structural Applications DE-AC01-89ER80842 DOE

16. Abradable Seal Development for
Ceramic Shrouds in Turbine Engines DAAJ02-96-C-0014 Army/Aviation Dir.