The University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, is awarded a $9,821,100 cost-type contract for the Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming (TuFF) thermoplastic composites for Navy Platforms: Phase 2. The contract provides for Phase 2 of an ongoing collaborative effort with Arkema and ATC Manufacturing to develop TuFF technologies specifically for IM7/PEKK (PolyEtherEtherKetone). TuFF is a short fiber composites technology that is more affordable and more amenable to process into complex parts. The material forms generated in Phase 2 efforts will be characterized to determine manufacturing process parameters for forming process design. In addition, the Phase 2 effort will focus on establishing program requirements for TuFF materials, performance and part geometries of interest to the Navy, the development and demonstration process, tooling methods, and the repeatability of the manufacturing process, mechanical properties and process scale-up. Work will be performed in Newark, Delaware (48%); King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (42%); Post Falls, Idaho (5%); and St. Louis, Missouri (5%). Work is expected to be completed by Sept. 14, 2025. The maximum dollar value of this contract is $9,821,100. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,821,100 are obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under N00014-22-S-B001 long range broad agency announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology dated Oct. 1, 2021. Since proposals are received throughout the year under the long range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-22-C-1072).
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