Task order - statement of work - task title: industry perspective on NASA hypersonic research 1.0 introduction/background: NASA is refining its hypersonic portfolio within nasas aeronautics research…

This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $304,166.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract tasks Northrop Grumman to conduct a study and provide a written assessment on advanced technologies for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles. The objectives include assessing Northrop Grumman's analytical competencies and technical gaps, identifying technology development challenges and a roadmap, evaluating collaboration approaches with NASA, and assessing NASA's facilities in the context of current and future needs for hypersonic systems testing and development. This contract is not designated as a set-aside and is part of NASA's efforts to refine its hypersonic research portfolio within the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate to support national priorities, which are primarily defense-related.

Task order - statement of work - task title: industry perspective on NASA hypersonic research 1.0 introduction/background: NASA is refining its hypersonic portfolio within nasas aeronautics research mission directorate (armd) to ensure that IT is most effectively aligned to support national priorities to utilize research, computational tools, and experimental capabilities in support of technology and system development as well as flight test in support of national needs. Our expectation is that these initial national needs are primarily defense related. This task order study will allow industry a unique opportunity to provide input into the national hypersonic research needs from purely an industry perspective. NASA is interested in the industry vision for mid-term (5-10 years) and long-term (10+ years) atmospheric hypersonic flight and responsive space access applications. In particular, NASA is interested in industry visions for 1) new hypersonic propulsion and vehicle technologies, 2) technology gaps which could include enhancement/modification of existing technologies to improve performance or durability, 3) analytical/design tools to bring new capabilities and improvements to existing tools, 4) capability improvements to existing facilities and (if necessary) requirements for new national facilities, and 5) affordable flight demonstrations. Furthermore, NASA is interested to learn topic areas in which NASA should conduct independent research and capabilities enhancement for industry purposes as well as to define opportunities for collaborative work. 2.0 scope & objectives: 2.1. The scope of this task order is to conduct a study and written assessment on advanced technologies for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles. 2.2. The objectives of this task order are to: 1. Assess analytical competencies and technical gaps within industry. 2. Assess technical development challenges experienced in industry and the development of a technology development roadmap. 3. Identify collaboration approaches between industry partners and NASA. 4. Assess NASA facilities in the context of current and future needs for hypersonic systems testing and development, including required facility upgrades and investments. 3.0 description of the work/tasks to be performed: the contractor shall perform the following tasks: 3.1. Hypersonic competencies self-assessment the contractor shall identify its existing hypersonic competencies as follows: 3.1.1. The contractor shall address its state of the art (SOA) capabilities in the following topic areas: systems analysis, including but not limited to: design and analysis of hypersonic vehicle systems including metrics of efficiency and performance reliability and cost prediction including metrics of mission success and affordability propulsion, including but not limited to: design and analysis of hypersonic airbreathing flowpaths and components assessment of operability and performance vehicle propulsion integration (e.g., inlets, nozzles, thermal management) aero/aerothermal analysis and test structures and advanced materials controls advanced diagnostics 3.1.2. The contractor shall identify technical gaps in analytical capability along with potential mitigation approaches in the following topic areas: fundamental knowledge validation data sets physics-based modeling and simulation with description of tools for each fidelity level according to the government furnished fidelity level definitions (GFI 5.1) 3.2. Hypersonic technical challenges the contractor shall identify its hypersonic challenges as follows: 3.2.1. The contractors technology development challenges in the following areas: systems analysis, including but not limited to: design and analysis of hypersonic vehicle systems including metrics of efficiency and performance reliability and cost pre