US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

William A Spurgeon

Gregory J Wunsch

James P Wolbert

James P Zona

A high powered armor panel having the wideband embedded antenna for operation in severe environmental conditions. The armor panel comprises a driven bowtie dipole electrically coupled to at least one driven resistor, a parasitic bowtie dipole electrically coupled to at least one parasitic resistor, a composite structure which has the driven bowtie dipole and the parasitic bowtie dipole embedded therein, a heat sink supported on a first side of the composite structure for dissipating heat, and an armor layer supported on an opposite second first side of the composite structure. The heat sink supports the at least one driven resistor electrically coupled to the driven bowtie dipole and the at least one parasitic resistor electrically coupled to the parasitic bowtie dipole.

Wide band antenna having a driven bowtie dipole and parasitic bowtie dipole embedded within armor panel

A method of forming fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite structures having a low volume fraction of fiber reinforcement and carefully controlled thicknesses is provided. The method enables the production of composite structures having a fiber volume fraction of less than about 0.5 through the use of vacuum bag molding, thereby eliminating the need for expensive closed molds, The method also eliminates the occurrence of &ldquo;racetracking&rdquo; of uncured resin during the resin infusion process.

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Newark, DE, United States of America

William A Spurgeon