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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 15, 2006 FBO #1784
MODIFICATION

A -- Hypersonics Test and Evaluation

Notice Date

7/25/2006
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

NAICS

541710 — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AEDC - Arnold Engineering Development Center, 100 Kindel Drive, Suite A-335, Arnold AFB, TN, 37389-1335
 

ZIP Code

37389-1335
 

Solicitation Number

BAA0614AEDCPKP
 

Response Due

7/17/2006
 

Point of Contact

Sue Tate, Contract Specialist, Phone 931-454-7801, Fax null,
 

E-Mail Address

sue.tate@arnold.af.mil
 

Description

DUE TO FedBizOps LIMITATIONS THE PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE POSTED AS AMENDMENT 03 AND AMENDMENT 04. PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS BAA No. 06-14 AEDC/PKP This section provides further information on Hypersonics Test and Evaluation Development, the submission, evaluation, and funding processes, proposal and proposal abstract formats, and other general information. The Test and Resource Management Center (TRMC) is selecting its research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process. This announcement in the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) constitutes the only solicitation. The following information is for those wishing to respond to the solicitation. TRMC is soliciting research proposals in the area on Hypersonics Test and Evaluation Development. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, systems, or methodologies as they apply to Test and Evaluation (T&E). TRMC seeks innovative proposals in the hypersonics area that will allow improved test and evaluation of current systems and future systems requiring test and evaluation 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. TRMC seeks advances in test and evaluation of hypersonic systems and related T&E technologies which will advance the state of the art beyond today’s science and technology (S&T) testing methodologies to address performance, operability, and durability of hypersonic systems and components. A list (not to be considered all-inclusive nor in priority order) of areas that require advances in test and evaluation technologies are: TRMC seeks advances in hypersonic and related technologies in the areas (not in priority): 1) INSTRUMENTATION FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT TESTING OF HOT STRUCTURES. This includes sensor and sensor integration techniques for in-flight measurement of surface and material temperatures, surface pressures, surface heat flux, structural strain and deformation, and surface ablation/recession, in and on carbon/carbon and carbon/silicon-carbide materials. Measurement techniques must perform at temperature for up to two hours. Techniques must not compromise the structural or thermal performance of the parent material. 2) SIMULATION OF MATERIAL ABLATION/EROSION AT HIGH VELOCITIES. Vehicles which reenter the atmosphere or are exposed to high velocity sustained flight will likely encounter an environment which causes loss of surface material that can change the vehicle shape in an unpredictable manner. Flight testing is very expensive and ground test facilities cannot provide the required flight simulation parameters, duration of test and model size to adequately investigate the phenomena. This effort seeks to extend simulation techniques in ground test facilities wherein the test article material is selected to behave like carbon/carbon and carbon/silicon-carbide materials, but loses material in a reduced environment which can be provided in existing ground test facilities. 3) TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE A VARIABLE MACH FREE-JET TEST CAPABILITY. There is a requirement for ground testing a complete hypersonic propulsion system wherein the Mach number is varied during a continuous facility run. While facility temperatures and pressures can be properly varied, the facility nozzle which produces Mach number is deficient. AEDC plans to build a variable Mach flexible wall nozzle to reach Mach 5 true-temperature test conditions. It is believed that this maximizes technology for a two-dimensional free-jet nozzle. The NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (25-JUL-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 13-OCT-2006, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
 

Web Link

Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AEDC/BAA0614AEDCPKP/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: 100 Kindel Drive Suite A332 Arnold AFB TN

Zip Code: 37389-1332

Country: UNITED STATES
 

Record

SN01165551-F 20061015/061013222931 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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