Gilford, NH: JRPlumer Associates today announced it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD to partner in a multi-year effort to develop a new QC/QA capability to support the manufacturing of advanced composite materials.
- The new contract will exploit JRPA patent pending “multi-sensing technology” developed under a recent contract with the Army Cold Region Research & Evaluation Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover NH.
- The “multi-sensing” is real-time compositional analysis outside the laboratory by portable (LIBS, Raman, XRF) instruments and chemometric data processing to achieve enhanced analytics.
JRPlumer Associates: JRPA is a veteran owned small business headquartered in Belmont with offices in Gilford, NH. Company experience includes federal and academic research in chemistry and environmental field studies. JRPA completed a congressionally-funded program with CRREL in March of 2020 prior to starting the current program with ARL in September of 2020.
Army Research Laboratory: APG MD is the Army’s lead research laboratory for materials, mechanics, and ballistics studies
