winter gloves?

COLD WEATHER GLOVE SYSTEM

The following is the first paragraph of the cold weather glove system and is all I have chosen to reprint from the U.S Army Labs, Natick, MA. since I have published the entire solicitation previously.

“C-APG, on behalf of the Product Manager for Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment (PdM-SCIE), intends to release a solicitation to procure, on a full and open basis, new modular and scalable hand wear protection system for extreme cold weather operating environments. The proposed CWGS must meet or exceed the following parameters:

• 1)Environmental Protection in the temperature ranges of 40oF to -40oF Threshold (T), 40oF to -60oF or below Objective (O).
  Rationale: Soldiers operate worldwide to include extreme cold environments. Soldier will need a hand wear system that will provide extreme cold protection for long durations”.

What I find amazing is the reality that they are intending to release the solicitation when they have yet to have a product. I know they do not have a product because what they want cannot be made, regardless what they think (which they aren’t doing) and regardless of what someone has told them.

As good a product as lamilite is when you crush it down as happens when you make a glove there is no sir spaces so you have a wall of plastic which moves the heat from each finger away from the finger very quickly, that is why mittens work and gloves don’t.

Imagine a house made with 12-inch-thick steel walls! The cold air on the outside of the house will be absorbed by the steel and it will move into the house interior.

Have the same house only made with 4-inch-thick wood walls and it will not get cold. Why because the steel molecules are do dense versus the wood material being porous and it’s the AIR trapped in the wood that does not transfer the heat through the wood as the air spaces do not exist in the steel.

Unfortunately, their level of knowledge of materials and manufacturing is abysmally non-existent. I was introduced to Natick when the company I worked for made the Polar Guard and I learned that those WE employ as civil servants are a waste of OUR tax dollars, so I expect they will go ahead and give someone a contract for the non-existent.