AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
FOR THE
ADV AN CED AEROSPACE WEAPON SY~'TEM APPLICATIONS PROGRAM
18 July 2008
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1. BACKGROUND: The Acquisition Support Division (DWO-3) of the Defonse Intelligence
Agency (DIA) has the responsibility to provide guidance and oversight to the Department of
Defense (DoD) acquisition process along with leveraging the DoD Intelligence Community to
coordinate, produce and maintain projections of the future threat environment in which U.S. air,
naval, ground, space, missile defense and infonnat:ion systems operate. In order to accurately
assess the foreign threat to U.S. weapon systems, a complete as possible understanding ofpotential
breakthrough technology applications employed in future aerospace weapon systems must be
obtained.
2. OBJECTIVE: One aspect of the future threat environment involves advanced aerospace
weapon system applications. The objective of this program is to understand the physics and
engineering of these applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from
now through the year 2050. Primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that
create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends. The focus is not on extrapolations
of current aerospace technology. The proposal shall describe a technical approach which
discusses how the breakthrough technologies and applications listed below would be studied
and include proposed key personnel that have experience in those areas.
3. REQUIRRMENTS:
a) The contractor shall e-0mplete advanced aerospace weapon system technical studies in the
following areas:
1. lift
2. propulsion
3. control
4. power generation
5. spatial/temporal translation
6. materials
7. configuration, structure
8. signature reduction (optical, infrared,
radiofrequency, acoustic)
9. human interface
I0. human effects
11. annamcnt (RF and DE\V)
12. other peripheral area,:; in support of(1-11)