Future Hypersonics Program

The Department of Defense, United States Air Force (USAF), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Armament Directorate, is currently conducting a lot of market research seeking capabilities statements from potential sources, for an effort involving systems integration of a Weapon Open System Architecture (WOSA)-based, solid-rocket boosted, air-breathing, hypersonic conventional cruise missile, air-launched from existing fighter/bomber aircraft into a preliminary design.

The effort involves the use of Digital Engineering (DE) and Model-Based Engineering (MBE) practices for requirements, design, trade studies, and analyses; as well as the use of DE/MBE to accomplish technical planning for qualification, component/subsystem testing, manufacturing, and sustainment of the air-breathing hypersonic cruise missile under representative operational conditions.

Area of capacity are the following:

• sustained air-breathing hypersonic propulsion (ramjet, scramjet, or dual-mode),
• stable hypersonic aerodynamics,
• aero-thermal protection systems,
• solid rocket motors,
• warhead/missile integration,
• advanced hypersonic guidance,
• navigation, and control including advanced subsystem technologies and communications, and
• fighter/bomber weapon integration.

More Department of Defense Request for Proposals in : here