Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (OUSD(R&E)/JHTO), in partnership with Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and UCAH, is soliciting competitive white papers/proposals supporting hypersonic research and technology, per the defined Statement of Need (SON) in Section 2.1 of the Request for White Papers.
The broad technology areas are:
- Technology Area 1: Materials, Structures and Thermal Protection Systems
- Technology Area 2: Guidance, Navigation and Control
- Technology Area 3: Air Breathing Propulsion
- Technology Area 4: Hypersonic Environments and Phenomenology
- Technology Area 5: Applied Aerodynamics and Hypersonic Systems
- Technology Area 6: Lethality and Energetics
- Technology Area 7: Next Generation
Applicant Eligibility: Applicant must be a university-affiliated UCAH Consortium Member by the time of proposal award on March 29, 2021.
Proposal awards are made under 10 U.S.C. § 2371b, and as such all awardees must meet at least one of the following conditions:
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A least one nonprofit research institution or nontraditional defense partner is participating to a significant extent in the prototype project;
OR - At least one-third of the total cost of the project is to be paid for out of funds provided by participants in the project.
Individuals supported by an awarded agreement as a result of this solicitation process must be U.S. citizens prior to award. Research projects may include ITAR or Distribution C information, which means that universities responding to this solicitation must be able to appropriately maintain and handle sensitive data.
Interested applicants must upload a Cover Sheet (1 page, pdf) to include:
- Project Title
- Technical Area and Topic Number (from Section 2 of RWP)
- Applicant Organization
- Primary Technical Point of Contact (POC), including name, address, phone and email contact information
- Co-PI(s) names and institutions
- Title and number of this funding opportunity
If interest exceeds the institutional limit of three applications, applicants will take part in a coordination meeting to be held the week of November 30 to discuss teaming opportunities and the limit is still exceeded applicants will need to submit three page white papers to an internal downselect that will be due on Tuesday, December 8.