DIA AAWSA Program Document Covers Biomaterials Research
The Defense Intelligence Agency reference document designated DIA-08-0912-006 carries a publication date of 7 January 2010 and a read date of 1 December 2009, according to the record itself. Its subject matter is biomaterials — metals, ceramics, polymers, glasses, carbons, and composite materials intended to interface with biological systems. The document is explicitly identified as part of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, a provenance that may surprise readers who associate that program's name with aerospace platforms and anomalous phenomena rather than with the chemistry of implantable polymers.
The document's own contents make its scope unambiguous. Its table of contents runs from an introduction and a discussion of the importance of biocompatibility through the science of biomaterials, then into biosensors, biomedicine, biomedical silicones and polydimethylsiloxanes, silicone chemistry, Teflon, biodegradable polymers, polylactic acid and polyglycolic acid, polyethylene glycol, hydrogels, titanium hip and knee joints, bioceramics, dental ceramics, tissue constructs,…