BAA-RQKPD-2015-0001-Call3-Atch1.pdf

This attachment provides details for a Broad Agency Announcement solicitation seeking proposals related to Composite Airframe Life Extension technology. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory is soliciting proposals to identify, develop, demonstrate and validate technologies that will allow the safe extension of the certified service lives of existing military aircraft that contain advanced composite primary structures. Specifically, the solicitation aims to fund research to better understand and predict the residual strength, durability, damage tolerance and reliability of aged composite materials and structures throughout the operational lifetime of aircraft, without requiring wholesale replacement of structural components or repeating demonstration processes. Proposals are sought to address methods to assess the ongoing airworthiness of composite airframes and enable their continued safe operation beyond original service life estimates.