Company Overview

• Advanced Fiber Technologies Founded 1996
• Incorporated 1997
• 40+ Years Experience in Carbon Fiber Development/Applications
• Business Focus:
• Contract R&D
• ~70% Gov�t/Military
• ~30% Commercial
• Consulting
• Recognized leaders in obscurant development/technologies
• Nanotechnology

Company and Technical Background

Advanced Fiber Technologies, Inc. provides engineering, consulting, and contract R&D to customers using advanced fiber materials. We have 40 years experience in the development of advanced fibers and composites. We are extremely familiar with the properties and characteristics of all state of the art carbon fiber products currently available today and were involved in the development of several of the newer generation carbon fiber products (including the first IM and UHM carbon fibers).

In addition, AFT has developed unique packaging forms for carbon fibers used in obscurant and related applications. We have over 20 years experience in obscurant related work and have participated in essentially every major mmw obscurant effort. We have also developed novel packaging techniques for IR obscurants and were recently granted a patent in this area associated with work done in conjunction with the U.S. Army (US Patent # 6802172).

We also support customers with engineering design and analysis services on a contractual basis. Our technical staff includes disciplines in chemical, mechanical, electrical, and composites engineering with additional backgrounds in statistical and quality control processes. Our services are utilized by industry, government, and academic clients.

Much of our work centers on supporting government contract activities. Recently, we performed research on nanotube materials as a subcontractor on a DARPA funded contract and have demonstrated novel methods for separating and disentangling carbon nanotube bundles. Previous efforts as subcontractor on a DOE contract contributed to the development of several novel technologies leading to the demonstration of low cost carbon fiber materials through the modification of textile type acrylic fiber precursors.

Advanced Fiber Technologies, Inc. is located in Townsend, DE.