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This Statement of Objectives, dated 18 July 2008, is from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Acquisition Support Division. It sets out the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which would study breakthrough aerospace technologies bearing on the foreign threat through 2050. The contractor was to study lift, propulsion, power generation, spatial/temporal translation, signature reduction and human effects. Other terms include TS/SCI security requirements, monthly and final threat assessment deliverables, and a five year firm fixed price contract.
From the source: Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 7/18/08, Washington, D.C.. Released with redactions. This document is an administrative or programmatic record related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)-administered program active from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP’s official scope of work identified 12 technical research areas relating to potential aerospace threats over a time horizon of more than 40 years. As an administrative record, the file documents how AAWSAP was scoped, organized, tasked, funded, or described at a particular point in time. This July 2008 Statement of Objectives defines AAWSAP as a contractor-supported research effort intended to assess far-term foreign aerospace threats by understanding the physics and engineering of possible breakthrough technologies out to the year 2050 rather than extrapolating from then-current aerospace trends. It identifies 12 technical study areas, including lift, propulsion, control, power generation, spatial or temporal translation, materials, configuration and structure, signature reduction, human interface, human effects, armament, and related supporting topics. The document also sets out the program’s expected work structure, requiring monthly status reports, technical-area program management plans within 60 days, comprehensive research reports and briefings by the tenth month, and a final integrated threat assessment.
h) It is expected that numerous experts with extensive experience (minimum of 10 years) in breakthrough aerospace research and development will be required to meet the demands of the above program. The offeror should clearly identify their approach to obtaining the services of and their utilization of these scientific and technical experts. Management personnel must include a lead integrator to oversee the work ofthe various analytical teams, and to integrate their findings into final coherent product~. At least one member of each analytical team must have a PhD, although that member c.an be on several teams. A technical plan for conducting the advanced aerospace weapon system studies described above must be included in the offeror's proposal. (c) Offeror must be able to produce integrated finished assessments in each of the above advanced aerospace weapon system technical areas. Finished reports and presentations, while highly analytical and technical, must be in a format suitable for dissemination at the highest levels of the federal government. fn addition to the main technical section of each assessment, an executive summary utilizing clearly understandable (non-technical) language must also be contained in each report. (d) To assess relevant experience, offerers shall submit at least three (3) references, including a POC name and phone number, vvith a brief description of the business relationship with the Government or other corporations. In addition, offerors should provide examples, conducted within the past 7 years, of having performed, as a prime contractor, the analysis. design, construction, and flight testing of high performance aircraft and/or satellites. Success in this program is dependent upon this capability and experience. 4. PLACE OF PERFORMA'.'ICE: The work under this contract shall be performed at the Contractor's facility. 5. SECURITY REQUIREMENT: Contractor company and personnel proposed shall be clcarablc and able to obtain a security and facility clearance upon award of the contract. All requirements specified in this SOO may be based on materials classified at or below Top Secret \\1th access to Sensitive Compartmented Infonnation (TS/ SCI). The contractor shall comply with the tenns and conditions ofthe DD-254 BEFORE initiating any classified effort. The contractor shall notify the COR and Contracting Officer immediately upon the detennination that higher classification requirements exist in order to accomplish the specified requirements. The contractor shall ensure that each individual ac.signed to this contract shall be identified, cleared, and approved through DIA/DAC-3 PRIOR to granting that individual access to, or authority to generate classified infonnation in association with this effort. 5.1. Contractor shall provide a work facility (including unclassified information systems) with a Top Secret Facility Clearance granted by the Defense Security Service (DSS). Cleared facilities are not required at contract inception. Offoror must provide personnel eligible for a Top Secret clearance level with fo.rther eligibility for SCI access. At least n.vo personnel cleared at the Secret level are required at contract inception. 6. GOVERNMENT FURNISHF:O PROPERTY/EQUIPMENT: The Government will provide the contractor access to computers and peripherals such as printers as the Government deems necessary to access and produce classified infonnation. These computers and peripherals remain the property of the Government. 2
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