A -- Reusable Operationally Responsive Trans-Atmospheric Technology

Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA Divsion (AFRL/PKDB ) solicits research proposals Reusable Operationally Responsive Trans-Atmospheric Technology. This soliciation will be issued as an open ended BAA. The first call under the open ended BAA will result in an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Task Order contract. The subject area of this Call will be High Speed Global Reach Air Vehicle Technologies. This area covers technolgies and technical support enabling high speed global reach air vehicles, includding both un powered hypersonic glide and powered high speed vhehiles. Topics include affordable subscale flight test experimentation, innovative propulsion, airframe-propulsion integration and extrement enviroment hot structure or airframe/thermal protection systems. Other technical areas to to be covered by the BAA include Operable vheicle configuration and simulation technologies and Flight test vehicle design, integration and operation. The BAA will be posted in late October 2005. Interested offerors may view and/or download the full BAA solicitation by accessing the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) homepage at http://www.fbo.gov/. Direct questions to the Contracting point of contact identified in the announcement.