LRETD BAA - GASP Topic

Added: May 19, 2011 7:00 pm Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Development Broad Agency Announcement, Topic 3 - Propulsion Units for CubeSats (PUC) Contract Award

Added: May 06, 2011 6:02 pm Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Development Broad Agency Announcement, Topic 2:  Health Assessment and Recognition Tools (HART) Contract Award

Added: Jun 15, 2010 1:35 pm Modified: Jun 18, 2010 2:47 pmTrack Changes 1. Industry Day is scheduled for an upcoming BAA titled "Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Development (LRETD)" on Wednesday, 30 June 2010. This BAA will include three (3) topics:

A. Green Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion (Green ASP) - AFRL's object of this program is to develop a thruster that will accommodate increased temperature and oxidation product environments to deliver predictable performance. Associated life and delivered thrust scaling as well as degradation algorithms are sought to support predictability of performance. AFRL is pursuing increased delivered energy density, decreased toxicity spacecraft chemical propulsion to support development and deployment of smaller logistical footprint, more easily deployable and mission capable spacecraft. AFRL has developed increased energy density, decreased toxicity monopropellant formulations relative to the current state of the art; however, the combustion environments are more demanding than state of the art propellants due to the increase in combustion temperature and oxidative product formation. Correspondingly, thruster component temperature and oxidation resistance requirements have increased relative to the state of the art as well. Thruster development to date, specific to AFRL developed advanced monopropellant formulations, has emphasized catalytic ignition. Development work has been focused upon a specific AFRL-developed monopropellant formulation applied to thruster design and support system (tanks, valves, regulators, control components, etc.) primarily for satellite missions. The desired conclusion of this program is a relevant demonstration of flight-like optimized components and of relevant mission duty cycles that support a flight-weight propulsion system design with defined performance and lifetime attributes. To achieve this end, the program design will rely on a phased approach 1) to understand thruster component materials requirements defined by combustion environment, degradation behavior, etc., and initialize algorithms describing these, 2) to map out delivered performance in a basic thruster configuration and derive initial scaling and degradition algorithms there from, 3) to optimize light-weight thruster development, to test performance and to validate developed algorithms, 4) and to demonstrate program performance goals and design for a proto-flight propulsion unit with supporting data analysis.

B. Health Assessment and Recognition Tools (HART) - The purpose of this topic is to solicit proposals for the development of innovative technologies in the field of liquid rocket engine health management. More specifically, the purpose of this topic is to develop sensors and sensor data algorithms that will enable oxygen-rich staged-combustion cycle reusable booster engines to achieve the Air Force operability goal for engine turnaround time. Solutions of particular interest include those that reduce or eliminate time-consuming ground inspections and/or maintenance actions. This topic has two (2) areas of interest; Turbopump Assembly (TPA) Application and Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) Application.

C. Propulsion Unit for Cubesats (PUC) - Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB is interested in developing a propulsion module for precision maneuvering of very small spacecraft. Spacecraft typified by the emerging "cubesat" standard may provide a new paradigm for responsive spacecraft. Spacecraft with stowed volumes of between 1,000 cm3 and 3,000 cm3 massing approximately 3 kg for a variety of missions are advantageous for a variety of Air Force missions. One significant drawback of present cubesat technology is the lack of capable primary propulsion. Recent analysis performed at AFRL has determined that it is possible to increase total impulse capability dramatically over current state-of-the-art while remaining within a 1,000 cm3 envelope. Technologies of interest include both low and high thrust propulsion technologies.

2. Industry Day will be held in Bldg 8424, the Research Science Center at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards AFB, CA. RSVP is required by COB Friday, 25 June 2010 to Katy Day via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil).

In your RSVP, you must include an approved copy of your company's Military Critical Technical Data Agreement, DD Form 2345. Otherwise, you will not be granted admission to the Industry Day. Additionally, standard visit authorization requests (VARs) must be submitted for each visitor to enable access to AFRL. VARs can be faxed or submitted via JPAS (insert JPAS code info-get from security). If you do not have access to JPAS, please submit the attached request form to James Singleton. 

JPAS submissions must use the following details:

a.  JPAS Account EB1MFB5R6
b.  POC: James Singleton
c.  Date: 30 June 2010

Point of contact (POC) to coordinate VARs/Visit Requests is James Singleton (james.singleton@edwards.af.mil) for all topics. All VARs provided via fax must be signed by your organization's cognizant security officer and include their contact information.

Access to AFRL will be granted for U.S. citizens only.

All visit requests must be received by 25 June 2010, 4:00 pm (PST).

3. Tentative Industry Day Agenda:

0730-0800 Arrival/Security Check through gate
0800-0830 Opening Remarks
0830-0900 Business Information Briefing
0900-1030 Technical Information Briefings
1100-1630 Individual Q&A Sessions

4. Individual Q&A Sessions will be limited to 30 minutes per company. Q&A sessions are available and will be reserved on a first-RSVP basis. Only one (1) Q&A session will be allowed per company. If a company cannot attend Industry Day, the Air Force reserves the right to schedule a one-on-one telecom in lieu of an on-site Q&A session.

5. A map of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, CA is provided for reference.

6. A DRAFT BAA will be added to this announcement prior to Industry Day that includes all three topics.

7. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Day, Contract Specialist via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil) or phone (661-277-8216).

Added: Jun 15, 2010 1:35 pm Modified: Jun 17, 2010 4:37 pmTrack Changes 1. Industry Day is scheduled for an upcoming BAA titled "Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Development (LRETD)" on Wednesday, 30 June 2010. This BAA will include three (3) topics:

A. Green Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion (Green ASP) - AFRL's object of this program is to develop a thruster that will accommodate increased temperature and oxidation product environments to deliver predictable performance. Associated life and delivered thrust scaling as well as degradation algorithms are sought to support predictability of performance. AFRL is pursuing increased delivered energy density, decreased toxicity spacecraft chemical propulsion to support development and deployment of smaller logistical footprint, more easily deployable and mission capable spacecraft. AFRL has developed increased energy density, decreased toxicity monopropellant formulations relative to the current state of the art; however, the combustion environments are more demanding than state of the art propellants due to the increase in combustion temperature and oxidative product formation. Correspondingly, thruster component temperature and oxidation resistance requirements have increased relative to the state of the art as well. Thruster development to date, specific to AFRL developed advanced monopropellant formulations, has emphasized catalytic ignition. Development work has been focused upon a specific AFRL-developed monopropellant formulation applied to thruster design and support system (tanks, valves, regulators, control components, etc.) primarily for satellite missions. The desired conclusion of this program is a relevant demonstration of flight-like optimized components and of relevant mission duty cycles that support a flight-weight propulsion system design with defined performance and lifetime attributes. To achieve this end, the program design will rely on a phased approach 1) to understand thruster component materials requirements defined by combustion environment, degradation behavior, etc., and initialize algorithms describing these, 2) to map out delivered performance in a basic thruster configuration and derive initial scaling and degradition algorithms there from, 3) to optimize light-weight thruster development, to test performance and to validate developed algorithms, 4) and to demonstrate program performance goals and design for a proto-flight propulsion unit with supporting data analysis.

B. Health Assessment and Recognition Tools (HART) - The purpose of this topic is to solicit proposals for the development of innovative technologies in the field of liquid rocket engine health management. More specifically, the purpose of this topic is to develop sensors and sensor data algorithms that will enable oxygen-rich staged-combustion cycle reusable booster engines to achieve the Air Force operability goal for engine turnaround time. Solutions of particular interest include those that reduce or eliminate time-consuming ground inspections and/or maintenance actions. This topic has two (2) areas of interest; Turbopump Assembly (TPA) Application and Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) Application.

C. Propulsion Unit for Cubesats (PUC) - Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB is interested in developing a propulsion module for precision maneuvering of very small spacecraft. Spacecraft typified by the emerging "cubesat" standard may provide a new paradigm for responsive spacecraft. Spacecraft with stowed volumes of between 1,000 cm3 and 3,000 cm3 massing approximately 3 kg for a variety of missions are advantageous for a variety of Air Force missions. One significant drawback of present cubesat technology is the lack of capable primary propulsion. Recent analysis performed at AFRL has determined that it is possible to increase total impulse capability dramatically over current state-of-the-art while remaining within a 1,000 cm3 envelope. Technologies of interest include both low and high thrust propulsion technologies.

2. Industry Day will be held in Bldg 8424, the Research Science Center at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards AFB, CA. RSVP is required by COB Friday, 25 June 2010 to Katy Day via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil).

In your RSVP, you must include an approved copy of your company's Military Critical Technical Data Agreement, DD Form 2345. Otherwise, you will not be granted admission to the Industry Day. Additionally, standard visit authorization requests (VARs) must be submitted for each visitor to enable access to AFRL. VARs can be faxed or submitted via JPAS (insert JPAS code info-get from security). If you do not have access to JPAS, please submit the attached request form to James Singleton. 

Point of contact (POC) to coordinate VARs/Visit Requests are James Singleton (james.singleton@edwards.af.mil) for topics 1 and 3, and Jeremy Andrews (jeremy.andrews@edwards.af.mil) for topic 2. All VARs provided via fax must be signed by your organization's cognizant security officer and include their contact information.

Access to AFRL will be granted for U.S. citizens only.

All visit requests must be received by 25 June 2010, 4:00 pm (PST).

3. Tentative Industry Day Agenda:

0730-0800 Arrival/Security Check through gate
0800-0830 Opening Remarks
0830-0900 Business Information Briefing
0900-1030 Technical Information Briefings
1100-1630 Individual Q&A Sessions

4. Individual Q&A Sessions will be limited to 30 minutes per company. Q&A sessions are available and will be reserved on a first-RSVP basis. Only one (1) Q&A session will be allowed per company. If a company cannot attend Industry Day, the Air Force reserves the right to schedule a one-on-one telecom in lieu of an on-site Q&A session.

5. A map of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, CA is provided for reference.

6. A DRAFT BAA will be added to this announcement prior to Industry Day that includes all three topics.

7. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Day, Contract Specialist via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil) or phone (661-277-8216).

Added: Jun 15, 2010 1:35 pm Modified: Jun 16, 2010 12:42 pmTrack Changes 1. Industry Day is scheduled for an upcoming BAA titled "Liquid Rocket Engine Technology Development (LRETD)" on Wednesday, 30 June 2010. This BAA will include three (3) topics:

A. Green Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion (Green ASP) - AFRL's object of this program is to develop a thruster that will accommodate increased temperature and oxidation product environments to deliver predictable performance. Associated life and delivered thrust scaling as well as degradation algorithms are sought to support predictability of performance. AFRL is pursuing increased delivered energy density, decreased toxicity spacecraft chemical propulsion to support development and deployment of smaller logistical footprint, more easily deployable and mission capable spacecraft. AFRL has developed increased energy density, decreased toxicity monopropellant formulations relative to the current state of the art; however, the combustion environments are more demanding than state of the art propellants due to the increase in combustion temperature and oxidative product formation. Correspondingly, thruster component temperature and oxidation resistance requirements have increased relative to the state of the art as well. Thruster development to date, specific to AFRL developed advanced monopropellant formulations, has emphasized catalytic ignition. Development work has been focused upon a specific AFRL-developed monopropellant formulation applied to thruster design and support system (tanks, valves, regulators, control components, etc.) primarily for satellite missions. The desired conclusion of this program is a relevant demonstration of flight-like optimized components and of relevant mission duty cycles that support a flight-weight propulsion system design with defined performance and lifetime attributes. To achieve this end, the program design will rely on a phased approach 1) to understand thruster component materials requirements defined by combustion environment, degradation behavior, etc., and initialize algorithms describing these, 2) to map out delivered performance in a basic thruster configuration and derive initial scaling and degradition algorithms there from, 3) to optimize light-weight thruster development, to test performance and to validate developed algorithms, 4) and to demonstrate program performance goals and design for a proto-flight propulsion unit with supporting data analysis.

B. Health Assessment and Recognition Tools (HART) - The purpose of this topic is to solicit proposals for the development of innovative technologies in the field of liquid rocket engine health management. More specifically, the purpose of this topic is to develop sensors and sensor data algorithms that will enable oxygen-rich staged-combustion cycle reusable booster engines to achieve the Air Force operability goal for engine turnaround time. Solutions of particular interest include those that reduce or eliminate time-consuming ground inspections and/or maintenance actions. This topic has two (2) areas of interest; Turbopump Assembly (TPA) Application and Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) Application.

C. Propulsion Unit for Cubesats (PUC) - Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB is interested in developing a propulsion module for precision maneuvering of very small spacecraft. Spacecraft typified by the emerging "cubesat" standard may provide a new paradigm for responsive spacecraft. Spacecraft with stowed volumes of between 1,000 cm3 and 3,000 cm3 massing approximately 3 kg for a variety of missions are advantageous for a variety of Air Force missions. One significant drawback of present cubesat technology is the lack of capable primary propulsion. Recent analysis performed at AFRL has determined that it is possible to increase total impulse capability dramatically over current state-of-the-art while remaining within a 1,000 cm3 envelope. Technologies of interest include both low and high thrust propulsion technologies.

2. Industry Day will be held in Bldg 8424, the Research Science Center at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards AFB, CA. RSVP is required by COB Friday, 25 June 2010 to Katy Day via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil).

In your RSVP, you must include an approved copy of your company's Military Critical Technical Data Agreement, DD Form 2345. Otherwise, you will not be granted admission to the Industry Day. Additionally, standard visit authorization requests (VARs) must be submitted for each visitor to enable access to AFRL. VARs can be faxed or submitted via JPAS (insert JPAS code info-get from security). If you do not have access to JPAS, please submit the attached request form to James Singleton. 

Point of contact (POC) to coordinate VARs/Visit Requests are James Singleton (james.singleton@edwards.af.mil) for topics 1 and 3, and Jeremy Andrews (jermey.andrews@edwards.af.mil) for topic 2. All VARs provided via fax must be signed by your organization's cognizant security officer and include their contact information.

Access to AFRL will be granted for U.S. citizens only.

All visit requests must be received by 25 June 2010, 4:00 pm (PST).

3. Tentative Industry Day Agenda:

0730-0800 Arrival/Security Check through gate
0800-0830 Opening Remarks
0830-0900 Business Information Briefing
0900-1030 Technical Information Briefings
1100-1630 Individual Q&A Sessions

4. Individual Q&A Sessions will be limited to 30 minutes per company. Q&A sessions are available and will be reserved on a first-RSVP basis. Only one (1) Q&A session will be allowed per company. If a company cannot attend Industry Day, the Air Force reserves the right to schedule a one-on-one telecom in lieu of an on-site Q&A session.

5. A map of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, CA is provided for reference.

6. A DRAFT BAA will be added to this announcement prior to Industry Day that includes all three topics.

7. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Day, Contract Specialist via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil) or phone (661-277-8216).

Added: Jun 15, 2010 1:35 pm 1. Industry Day is scheduled for an upcoming BAA on Wednesday, 30 June 2010. This BAA will include three (3) topics:

A. Green Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion (Green ASP) - AFRL's object of this program is to develop a thruster that will accommodate increased temperature and oxidation product environments to deliver predictable performance. Associated life and delivered thrust scaling as well as degradation algorithms are sought to support predictability of performance. AFRL is pursuing increased delivered energy density, decreased toxicity spacecraft chemical propulsion to support development and deployment of smaller logistical footprint, more easily deployable and mission capable spacecraft. AFRL has developed increased energy density, decreased toxicity monopropellant formulations relative to the current state of the art; however, the combustion environments are more demanding than state of the art propellants due to the increase in combustion temperature and oxidative product formation. Correspondingly, thruster component temperature and oxidation resistance requirements have increased relative to the state of the art as well. Thruster development to date, specific to AFRL developed advanced monopropellant formulations, has emphasized catalytic ignition. Development work has been focused upon a specific AFRL-developed monopropellant formulation applied to thruster design and support system (tanks, valves, regulators, control components, etc.) primarily for satellite missions. The desired conclusion of this program is a relevant demonstration of flight-like optimized components and of relevant mission duty cycles that support a flight-weight propulsion system design with defined performance and lifetime attributes. To achieve this end, the program design will rely on a phased approach 1) to understand thruster component materials requirements defined by combustion environment, degradation behavior, etc., and initialize algorithms describing these, 2) to map out delivered performance in a basic thruster configuration and derive initial scaling and degradition algorithms there from, 3) to optimize light-weight thruster development, to test performance and to validate developed algorithms, 4) and to demonstrate program performance goals and design for a proto-flight propulsion unit with supporting data analysis.

B. Health Assessment and Recognition Tools (HART) - The purpose of this topic is to solicit proposals for the development of innovative technologies in the field of liquid rocket engine health management. More specifically, the purpose of this topic is to develop sensors and sensor data algorithms that will enable oxygen-rich staged-combustion cycle reusable booster engines to achieve the Air Force operability goal for engine turnaround time. Solutions of particular interest include those that reduce or eliminate time-consuming ground inspections and/or maintenance actions. This topic has two (2) areas of interest; Turbopump Assembly (TPA) Application and Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) Application.

C. Propulsion Unit for Cubesats (PUC) - Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB is interested in developing a propulsion module for precision maneuvering of very small spacecraft. Spacecraft typified by the emerging "cubesat" standard may provide a new paradigm for responsive spacecraft. Spacecraft with stowed volumes of between 1,000 cm3 and 3,000 cm3 massing approximately 3 kg for a variety of missions are advantageous for a variety of Air Force missions. One significant drawback of present cubesat technology is the lack of capable primary propulsion. Recent analysis performed at AFRL has determined that it is possible to increase total impulse capability dramatically over current state-of-the-art while remaining within a 1,000 cm3 envelope. Technologies of interest include both low and high thrust propulsion technologies.

2. Industry Day will be held in Bldg 8351, Room 230 at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Edwards AFB, CA. RSVP is required by COB Friday, 25 June 2010 to Katy Day via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil). In your RSVP, you must include an approved copy of your company's Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement, DD Form 2345. Otherwise, you will not be granted admission to the Industry Day. Additionally, standard visit authorization requests (VARs) must be submitted for each visitor to enable access to AFRL. VARs can be faxed or submitted via JPAS (insert JPAS code info-get from security). Point of contact (POC) to coordinate VARs are James Singleton (james.singleton@edwards.af.mil) for topics 1 and 3, and Jeremy Andrews (jermey.andrews@edwards.af.mil) for topic 2. All VARs provided via fax must be signed by your organization's cognizant security officer and include their contact information. Access to AFRL will be granted for U.S. citizens only.

3. Tentative Industry Day Agenda:

0730-0800 Arrival/Security Check through gate
0800-0830 Opening Remarks
0830-0900 Business Information Briefing
0900-1030 Technical Information Briefings
1100-1630 Individual Q&A Sessions

4. Individual Q&A Sessions will be limited to 30 minutes per company. Q&A sessions are available and will be reserved on a first-RSVP basis. Only one (1) Q&A session will be allowed per company. If a company cannot attend Industry Day, the Air Force reserves the right to schedule a one-on-one telecom in lieu of an on-site Q&A session.

5. A map of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, CA is provided for reference.

6. A DRAFT BAA will be added to this announcement prior to Industry Day that includes all three topics.

7. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Day, Contract Specialist via e-mail (Kathrin.day@edwards.af.mil) or phone (661-277-8216).