Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative solutions for thermal management in various defense applications, including hypersonic vehicles, directed energy weapons, and high-performance tactical computing. The current state-of-the-art thermal management solutions are insufficient, and DARPA is looking for novel, intrinsic thermal vectoring architectures that can disrupt legacy thermodynamic limits. The desired research focus is on developing novel methods and mechanisms to efficiently route, dissipate, or transduce extreme thermal loads.
• The solutions should demonstrate a deep understanding of the problem space and clearly define the scope of the technical challenge.
• The submissions should prioritize rigorous, physics-based evidence over qualitative, marketing-style assertions.
• The proposing teams should possess significant, combined expertise in relevant fields such as materials science, thermodynamics, multiphysics modeling, and/or advanced manufacturing.
• The solutions should be broad enough to impact a range of potential systems or classes of systems as opposed to a single platform.