2022 Hypersonics

During the week of 23-27 May 2022, the Department of the Air Force Hypersonics S&T enterprise is hosting the 2022 Hypersonics Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meeting (TIM) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.  This invitation is open to all industry partners with IR&D and corporate investments, including large and small businesses, academia, National Labs, and FFRDCs with a signed and certified DD form 2345 (Military Critical Technical Data Agreement).

This engagement is intended to foster mutual awareness, increase collaboration, and identify alignment between industry’s independent research investments and DAF hypersonics-related science and technology needs.  Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from throughout the U.S. Government in various technical disciplines will participate in submitted abstract reviews and face-to-face meetings to provide feedback to industry on its Hypersonics-related IR&D.

NOTE:  This webpage supplements the announcement in SAM.gov -- https://sam.gov/.  Changes and/or updates to this announcement will only be made on the Defense Innovation Marketplace (DIM) site ONLY; therefore, please check the DIM site often.

Interested in participating? Here’s what you need to do:

Send your expression of interest and company’s DD2345 to dtic.belvoir.ecm.list.hypersonic@mail.mil as soon as possible. Once your expression of interest is received by our IR&D TIM planning team, you will receive a reply with additional information and instructions for submitting your IR&D abstracts and corporate investments.  Final submittals are due no later than 1200 Pacific Time, 18 Feb 2022.  Each company may submit up to 5 abstracts for consideration, but submit each abstract only once.  If you do not receive acknowledgement from the planning team within three business days, please resend the original email.

Security

While all information submitted must be unclassified, this event will accommodate discussions up to the Secret Collateral level. Company presenters will be asked to identify the appropriate classification level for their one-on-one session(s). All one-on-one sessions will be closed-door and between the presenter (and team) and relevant government SMEs only.

Expected Outcomes

The government audience will include multiple agencies and professional levels with active roles in hypersonics S&T, with the task of critically evaluating the presented material to provide feedback on relevance and criticality.

Planning Schedule

For planning purposes, a high-level schedule of milestones is provided below.  Please note additional details will be provided to companies upon formal expressions of interest (response to this announcement).  Dates listed are subject to change.