SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Aerospace Composites with Automotive Efficiencies Request for Information (RFI) - DARPA-SN-15-12
- Notice Date
- 12/11/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 675 North Randolph Street, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-2114, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22203-2114
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-15-12
- Archive Date
- 12/23/2014
- Point of Contact
- Michael Maher,
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-SN-15-12@darpa.mil
(DARPA-SN-15-12@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-SN-15-12 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is requesting information on areas of research related to developing materials and processes that would allow for the manufacturing of complex aerospace composite parts at automotive efficiencies. Innovations in these areas could potentially result in solutions that would significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing aerospace composites and allow them to buy their way onto next generation aircraft and future advanced unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to significantly reducing the cost of fabricating small, complex aerospace composite parts, such solutions must maintain performance akin to typical intermediate modulus carbon fiber toughened epoxy systems. Composite materials are an integral part of several military platforms but individual parts costs are still too high to allow for expanded use of aerospace composites within the Department of Defense (DoD) despite their superior performance (strength to weight ratio) when compared to traditional metals. Commercially, the automotive industry has optimized the process to build and assemble complex parts that allow for significantly reduced costs associated with manufacturing. DARPA/DSO is exploring materials and techniques that can be applied to aerospace industry for composite parts to significantly reduce the cost and time to make small composite parts. DSO anticipates such materials and techniques would be build rate insensitive, less capital intensive when compared to traditional methods, and able to meet emerging aerospace platform requirements. See attached DARPA-SN-15-12.
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN03593752-W 20141213/141211234546-dcf8fa4cc16394a6acd8718b85300728 (fbodaily.com)
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