Special Programs Announcement for Office of Naval Research Opportunity: Enabling Technologies for Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicles

The Office of Naval Research is seeking proposals for the development of enabling technologies for hypersonic boost-glide vehicles. The program, called Flight Advancement of Structures for Hypersonics (FLASH), aims to demonstrate a tactically relevant range, low-cost, hypersonic capability via advanced aerodynamics, control techniques, and resulting relaxed reliance on exquisite materials. The program is focused on four technical areas: High TRL/Flight Qualified Command and Control Systems and System Components, High Temperature Structures, Thermal Protection Systems, Assemblies and Components, Scaled Design Verification and Flight Test Demonstration Capabilities, and Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization (MDAO). • The program is seeking information on existing industry interest, capability, and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems and components. • The program is looking for proposals that can provide technical, performance, scalability, risk reduction options, technology/material readiness level (TRL/MRL), availability, and cost information. • The program is interested in identifying viable flight-proven, commensurate hypersonic demonstration vehicles and capabilities of scale for flight verification and risk reduction opportunities. • The program is seeking government and industry insight into existing capabilities, promising techniques under development, and novel concepts for the integrated design and optimization of hypersonic systems.