Pentagon Honours Airless Tyre Design
The Pentagon has honoured Abraham Pannikottu and his American Engineering Group team for designing airless tyres for the Stryker armoured vehicle. Pannikottu and his team have toiled for three years to come up with the tyres, which can run without deflating even after being shot. At a function at the Pentagon, Claude M Bolton, Jr, assistant secretary of the army for acquisition, logistics and technology, presented Abraham with the 2006 Army Small Business Innovation Research award and the Small Business Technology Transfer Quality Award.