SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Hypersonics Testing and Evaluation
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- AEDC/PKP 100 Kindel Drive Suite A332 Arnold AFB, TN, 37389
- ZIP Code
- 37389
- Solicitation Number
- BAA0501AEDCPKP
- Response Due
- 4/5/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/30/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- BAA 05-01-AEDC/PKP: The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in response to the request by the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (DTRMC) is soliciting research proposals in the area of hypersonics testing and evaluation/science and technology (T+E/S+T) development. DTRMC seeks innovative proposals in the hypersonics area that will allow improved test and evaluation of current systems and future systems over the next 10 to 15 years. The goal is not to perform basic research, but to develop subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment. The results of this type of effort are proof of technological feasibility and assessment of subsystem and component operability and producibility rather than the development of hardware for service use. DTRMC seeks advances in hypersonic and related technologies in the areas of (not in priority): 1) COMBUSTION AND NON-INTRUSIVE FLOW DIAGNOSTICS for ground test applications (applications to flight test is a plus), specifically, non-intrusive measurement capability for determination of species concentration, temperature, and/or velocities in flows associated with hypersonic test facilities and scramjet engines are required. Robust systems capable of working reliably in a test environment, that are minimally intrusive to the test article and facil! ity hardware, and have the capability of retrieving spatially resolved flow parameters are especially needed. 2) CONCEPTS FOR AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT TERMINATION SYSTEMS FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT TEST VEHICLES are required. 3) Technologies that aid in the STRUCTURAL TESTING or provide new capabilities in testing of materials and whole vehicle static structural testing at elevated temperatures and pressure conditions that simulate hypersonic flight conditions are required. 4) NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES THAT ENABLE VARIABLE MACH NUMBER HYPERSONIC GROUND TESTING facilities that will provide hypersonic flight trajectory simulation capabilities are required. Specifically, enabling technologies for large scale ground testing of integrated turbine based combined cycle/ramjet/scramjet inlet and mode transition testing are required. It is expected that a modified AEDC Aeropropulsion Engine Test Facility (ASTF) (with extension of Mach number to 4 or 5) will be the only viable candidate for such a large scale integrated propulsion test capability and therefore will be the only viable candidate for receiving the proposed technology. 5) CLEAN AIR HEATER TECHNOLOGIES for hypersonic test facilities capable of providing reliable non-vitiated air for hypersonic testing applications is required; 6) MODELING AND SIMULATION (M+S) efforts that have application to test and evaluation are required. Areas of interest include: integrated propulsion system and airframe performance models, high speed (+M5) store separation, aerothermal heat transfer with application to aerodynamic shaping and thermal management including aerothermal chemistry and boundary-layer transition effects, transient modeling incorporating the effects of inlet un-start and combustor dynamics, electron beam energy addition to high pressure flows, ! ultra high pressure aerothermal equation of state of air (approx. 300,000 psi). M+S efforts with demonstrated verification of predictive/modeling capabilities using existing or acquisition of new data are preferred, and must possess strong test and evaluation applications. M+S proposals must possess a strongly stated T+E application justification. M+S proposals with primarily system development application will receive little or no preference. PROJECT SCOPE: Awards totaling approximately $2.5-$3.0M are expected to be made in FY06. Increased funding levels are anticipated to occur in the following fiscal years. The prospective proposers should be aware that there is no certainty in the funding or level of effort. GENERAL INFORMATION: Proposals should address development and/or operational test and evaluation technologies. DTRMC strongly encourages well-coordinated, interdisciplinary research and development activities. Teaming among academia, industry, and/or government partners is encouraged; however, this is not a requirement. Projects with strong transition plans to DoD T+E ground or flight test facilities or with DoD T+E facility participation will receive preference. Because awards may be made in which contractors expect to access or generate unclassified information that may be sensitive and inappropriate for release to the public, the contracts will contain DFARS Clause 252.204-7000, Disclosure of Information. This requirement will be in subcontracts as well. Projects will be awarded in phases with the later phases being funded in FY07 or later and will be contingent on fund availability, merit of performance in previous phases, and anticipated future T+E requirements for the technologies being addressed. In order to minimize the magnitude of the proposal preparation and review process, a proposal abstract of no more than 15 pages total should be submitted by 5 Apr 05. Each proposal should specify the benefiting U.S. military service and the executing organization with subcontractors (where applicable), and their specific roles. The proposal should briefly describe the out-year effort beyond completion of the phase I effort. Each proposal should address a specific T+E hypersonic need. Each proposer and subcontractor will be required to submit written verification stating they are aware of their responsibility to have DoD approval for public release of information pertaining to the proposed project (including technical reports, papers, and presentations) as required by DoD regulations regarding the dissemination of militarily critical technologies and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). EVALUATION: Evaluation of proposal abstracts and full proposals will be accomplished through a technical review of each proposal using the following criteria: (1) overall scientific and technical merit, (2) relevance to current T+E hypersonic technology test requirements not addressed in other DoD programs(3) offeror's capabilities and related experience, (4) cost realism of proposed effort, and (5) plans and capability to accomplish technology transition to T+E application and/or to DoD T+E facilities. Upon review, AEDC will respond to proposal abstracts with a recommendation to submit or not to submit a full proposal and the time and date for submission of a full proposal. Proposals and proposal abstracts should be submitted on CD-ROM in .pdf format and forwarded to: AEDC/PKP, Attn: Kathy P. Swanson, 1! 00 Kindel Drive, Suite A332, Arnold AFB, TN 37389-1332. For more information on BAA0501AEDC--Hypersonics Testing and Evaluation please refer to http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixslibr/BAA0501AEDC/BAA0501AEDC.asp
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BAA0501AEDC-Hypersonics Testing and Evaluation
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