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| Composite Product Development
SDC has identified four business areas that encompass the primary products that are envisioned to develop over the next ten years. But, a business like SDC has the flexibility to maneuver as the environment changes and to apply its engineering expertise and experience to many problems and applications. The main idea of defining these four business areas is to provide a rationale for strategic investments. These four business areas are:
SDC currently has business in each of these areas and products that are in development in different phases ranging from basic research, for example, liquid metal micro-heat pipes for high heat flux thermal management and carbon-carbon mirrors for lightweight telescopes, to engineering development, such as for development of a lightweight payload adaptor with integral passive damping treatment, to system demonstration and development programs, which would include the development of the NLOS canister. In addition to a number of missile airframe products in development, SDC also has contracts to develop thermal protection systems products as well a propulsion system products. It is SDC's approach to materials and structures systems that enables SDC to apply the same successful approach for new applications, which could include energy systems, nuclear reactors, monorail systems (SDC recently developed a design and set up manufacturing for an operation in Malaysia), on-highway vehicles, ship systems, and engine components. |