US ARMY, TACOM-ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, is conducting a market survey to identify potential sources for the purchase of equipment to monitor the solidification front, density, and defects during melt-cast operations of explosives. The equipment must use sensors that are explosion proof, operator friendly, intrinsically safe, and non destructive to production rounds. Also, the equipment must measure in real time, at a high rate, and feedback into a control system. The instrument should be able to measure the following properties: 1) solidification front 2) density 3) voids 4) base/side gaps 5)settling. Furthermore, the instrument should be mobile from cooling station to cooling station. Interested organizations who feel that they are capable of supplying this type of instrument are invited to indicate their ability by providing specifications, brochures, and drawings within 15 days of the date of this notice to US Army. Any technical questions that you may have please contact: Joint Munitions & Lethality Contracting Center, AMSCC-CCJM-CC, ATTN: Jim Moran, Bldg. 9, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, phone: 973-724-6630, email: [email protected]. In addition, please provide your companys name, address, point of contact with telephone number, email address, size of business (small/large), and country represented. This is a market survey for information only and shall not be construed as a request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the US Government. The US Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this market survey. All information supplied will be submitted at no cost and no obligation to the Government. See Numbered Note 25

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