SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RAPID EYE (Rapid Response, Long Endurance Unmanned Aircraft System Program)
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- BAA07-57
- Response Due
- 1/16/2008
- Archive Date
- 11/22/2008
- Point of Contact
- Chris Glista, Contracting Officer, Phone N/A, Fax N/A, - Wade Pulliam, Program Manager, Tactical Technology Office (TTO), Phone N/A, Fax N/A
- E-Mail Address
-
christopher.glista@darpa.mil, wade.pulliam@darpa.mil
- Description
- DARPA is soliciting proposals for the Rapid Eye program for the development of a persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) system that can be launched to anywhere in the world from an alert pad, reenter and deploy in fewer than 2 orbits and has the ability to loiter for sufficient time to allow other assets to relieve it. The Rapid Eye program will conduct design trade studies to define an optimal system solution, perform risk reduction on critical technologies including subscale component testing, and conduct a flight test of the end-to-end Rapid Eye system. It is envisioned that this program will at a minimum develop and demonstrate technologies associated with the design of a deployable aircraft with sufficient loiter speed, endurance and power to achieve Rapid Eye performance goals; packaging of a high-aspect ratio aircraft into a rocket fairing; the design of a re-entry decelerator with low stowed volume and mass that can slow a reentry vehicle (RV) high in the atmosphere; and the demonstration of efficient propulsion in a low oxygen, low speed environment. The Government is not interested in solutions employing buoyant flight or radioactive power.
- Record
- SN01457116-W 20071123/071121224255 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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