Washington State University Scientists Land $8.5 Million Defense Contract

A team of scientists at Washington State University’s Applied Sciences Laboratory (ASL) http://www.asl.wsu.edu/ has been awarded an $8.5 million research contract to develop and demonstrate reactive materials to be used in a new generation of national security applications.

“We’ve been asked to make a material that is mechanically as good as steel, and yet can release chemical energy on demand,” said Yogendra M. Gupta, who is director of WSU’s Institute of Shock Physics and one of five principal investigators on the project.

The contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, will begin later this year and run for three and a half to four years. Of the $8.5 million total, $6.4 million will come to WSU. The remainder will be shared by collaborators at the Southwest Research Institute and SRI International.

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