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Jan, 23 2023


DEFENSE SPENDING AND SILICONE OPPORTUNITIES

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 * Posted By: Dominic Testo
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Defense spending is increasing, but where are the opportunities for your
business? During the last three months of 2022, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
outlays on research and development rose by 11%. For FY23, there’s a 13%
increase in funding for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E), a
major part of the DoD budget that covers new and improved warfighting
capabilities. To put these percentages in perspective, they’re greater than the
10% increase in FY 2023 defense spending overall.

There are many types of RDT&E projects, but military grade silicones are needed
for gaskets that provide EMI/RFI shielding, or that resist fuels, fire,
chemicals, salt spray, outgassing, or high and low temperatures. From
terrestrial radios to aircraft fuel doors, and from naval ships to satellite
communications, military grade silicones are used across the U.S. military’s
warfighting domains. To meet DoD requirements, however, these elastomers need to
comply with rigorous standards.


MILITARY SILICONES FOR DOD PROJECTS

Specialty Silicone Products (SSP) of Ballston Spa, New York (USA) supplies
EMI/RFI silicones and military and aerospace silicones that meet demanding
specifications. For example, many of our EMI/RFI silicones meet the DoD’s
MIL-DTL-83528 standard for electrically-conductive elastomeric gaskets. When you
visit the EMI/RFI Silicones page on the SSP website, you’ll find third-party
shielding reports along with technical data sheets and other documentation, such
as qualified product listings (QPLs) from the DoD.  

SSP also supplies military grade fluorosilicones that meet the requirements of
MIL-DTL-25988, a military specification that covers oil- and fuel-resistant
elastomers for aeronautical and aerospace applications. Importantly, SSP
supplies these and other military elastomers in low minimum order quantities
(MOQs) and with shorter lead times than you might expect. That’s important for
RDT&E and other defense-related projects that require prototypes, iterations,
and low-volume initial quantities.


MORE SPECIFICATION GRADE SILICONES 

SSP also makes other types of specification grade silicones that may be required
for some military projects. For example, SSP offers a MIL-DTL-83528 EMI
shielding silicone that also passes the ASTM B117 salt spray test for galvanic
corrosion, a problem in marine environments. This material, SSP2529, can also be
used in satellite applications that require proven compliance with ASTM E 595,
an outgassing standard that originated with NASA and applies to the low-vacuum
environment of space.

Military and aerospace elastomers from SSP also include AA 59588 silicones that
meet SAE’s Aerospace Material Requirements (AMS). Several of these materials
pass the DeMattia Flex Resistance Test, a dynamic test that measures crack
growth in inches over thousands of flexural cycles. Flex-fatigue resistance can
be an important requirement for military aviation, and high temperatures, harsh
environments, and excessive cycling can all contribute to elastomeric fatigue.


SILICONE SPECIFICATIONS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPLIANCE

Military and aerospace silicones aren’t commodity elastomers; however, too many
compounders now treat them like they are. That’s a risk for die cutters,
molders, extruders, and gasket fabricators who assume a level of compliance that
may no longer exist. If a compounder changes a formula to use lower-cost
ingredients, how will you know if you’re getting a true specification grade
silicone?

Specialty Silicone Products isn’t known as the leader in low-cost silicones, but
you can be sure about what you’re getting when you buy from us. For each batch
of product, we can supply you with a Certificate of Analysis (COA) that reports
the specific test results for that batch. We can also provide you with a
Certificate of Conformance (COC) if you need it, and SSP has a full on-site test
lab here at our ISO 9001:2015 certified facility.

To learn more about how our materials can help you to pursue defense-related
opportunities, contact SSP online or email Dominic Testo, Business Development
Manager.



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