DOD Selects Nine Organizations to Participate in Hypersonics Technology Development Program

The Department of Defense has awarded three-year contracts worth $26.6 million to nine organizations under the Joint Acceleration of Hypersonic Vehicle Aerostructures Alternatives program.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Manufacturing Technology office facilitated the awards made through the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems other transaction authority.

Under the contracts, the entities will develop and test non-carbon and carbon thermal protection systems materials “to establish trusted design allowable data, driving down material transition risks and enabling greater flexibility in hypersonic systems design,” the DOD ManTech said.

The selected JAHVAA performers will participate in a series of three challenge problems, during which they will demonstrate their proposed materials and their capability to produce complex products for hypersonic systems.

According to the Defense Department, the JAHVAA effort aims to meet the demand for hypersonic system materials and processing technology development and ensure the U.S. industrial base can quickly deliver warfighter mission requirements in the future.