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ARMY SBIR/STTR Success Stories website |
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| About the Technology: |
 Foster-Miller has developed and
integrated network devices into
wearable soldier garments, and
fabricated and successfully demonstrated
narrow, flexible electro-optic buses with
overmolded end connectors that can be
applied to existing garments to act as a
personal area network. |
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Military and Commercial Significance: |
| Other textile cable
successes include an advanced electro-optic
webbing for a body-borne antenna system.
Ongoing work is providing fully functional
textile networks to support the Scorpion and
Objective Force Warrior soldier garments and is developing a textile network tactor suit to address pilot disorientation. Foster-
Miller is focused on the materials and
ergonomic issues associated with providing
effective connections and networks, while
also meeting the demanding durability and
comfort requirements of its military and
industrial customers. |
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One of these commercial products – the
Malden Mills Polartec Heat® blanket – is a
new electric blanket system which looks and
feels like soft Polartec® fleece, but hidden
inside are tiny fiber heating elements. Foster-
Miller provided the textile network power
bus and connections to the elements for this
product. |
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| Industry Contact: |
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Government Contact: |
Foster-Miller, Inc.
350 Second Ave.
Waltham, MA 02451-1196
E-Mail: cblack@foster-miller.com
Telephone: (781) 684-4093
Country: USA
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US Army Soldier Systems Center
16 Kansas Street
Natick, MA 01760-5015
Telephone: (508) 233-4928
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