New OTA Project: MACH-XL - Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic – Accelerator Challenge (C)
Past New Requirement Updated
- Agency
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Navy NAVSEA NSWC Crane Division
Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of Defense
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $1,000,000,000 or more
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Place of performance
- Crane, IN
- Forecast number
- N00164-25-RFPREQ-CR-GXW-0220
Forecast details come from the Navy's Long Range Acquisition Estimates. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division is releasing a new Other Transaction Authority (OTA) prototype demonstration focused on affordable, innovative hypersonic weapon systems, with solicitation estimated for October 1, 2025, and award targeted for January 1, 2026. The effort will showcase producible hypersonic capabilities across all-up-rounds, launcher platforms, and weapon system configurations, including cruise and boost-glide systems and flexible launcher platforms such as box-launched systems and mobile launchers. The prototype program aims to generate data and insights informing potential follow-on production and integration decisions for future-generation hypersonic weapon systems.
Award value is estimated at $1 billion or greater under fixed-price delivery order terms. Work is performed at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in Crane, Indiana. Personnel and facilities must hold Secret-level security clearances. The contracting office is Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), UIC N00164, with program office CR-GXW at NSWCCR.
Forecast text
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane and the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) are preparing to release a new opportunity focused on an affordable, innovative demonstration of prototype high speed weapon systems. This effort aims to showcase producible hypersonic capabilities across a range of all-up-rounds, launcher platforms, and weapon system configurations.
Key Areas of Interest include:
1.Hypersonic all-up-rounds with a variety of launch and mission capabilities, including cruise and boost glide systems.
2.Flexible launcher platforms, such as box-launched systems, mobile launchers, and other adaptable launcher configurations.
The goal of this prototype effort is to generate data and insights that will inform potential follow-on production and integration decisions for future-generation hypersonic weapon systems.
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