Carbon Crunch Future Program Announcement

The Carbon Crunch program aims to accelerate carbon-carbon hypersonic aeroshell production by developing and applying cutting-edge composite manufacturing methods. The program will focus on demonstrating an end-to-end manufacturing process that shows high quality, rapid production, and quick design-cycle turnaround. The goal is to enable scalable, fast, and agile production of hypersonic aeroshells. Key aspects of the program include: * Developing cutting-edge composite manufacturing methods * Demonstrating an end-to-end manufacturing process * Achieving high quality, rapid production, and quick design-cycle turnaround * Enabling scalable, fast, and agile production of hypersonic aeroshells * Transitioning the technology to hypersonic programs of record once the process demonstrates reasonable cost and orders-of-magnitude improvement in throughput.