Advanced Complex Systems

- Conduct propulsion system risk reduction testing. - Conduct avionics system risk reduction testing. - Mature missile designs based on early risk reduction activities. - Develop missile manufacturing plans and cost assessments based on missile designs.

- Continue flight demonstrations validating vehicle release from a host aircraft. - Continue flight demonstrations validating vehicle performance, stability and control through all phases of flight. - Conduct analysis and flight testing to expand flight envelope. - Continue analysis and development of integrated mission systems to mature…

- Finalize flight test planning and airworthiness certification. - Complete structural proof load test to verify the built aircraft matches structural design predictions. - Complete final software integration lab verification testing to ensure the system operates as intended including the proper vehicle responses in the presence of…

- Continue to conduct flight hardware acceptance testing for the propulsion system. - Continue to integrate the developed propulsion systems with the air harvesting inlets. - Continue conducting environmental qualification tests for the air harvesting inlets. - Finalizing ground software build and testing. - Finalizing flight software…

- Expand operational testing into increasingly complex and contested environments, including electronic warfare scenarios, to rigorously evaluate system robustness and adaptability. - Advance multi-platform collaboration by integrating heterogeneous teams, such as manned-unmanned formations, to assess the scalability of the autonomous…

- Execute multiple flight tests. - Complete flight test data analysis and final program review.

- Conduct on-orbit demonstrations of satellite servicing capabilities.

- Execute end-to-end validation testing on novel energetic materials developed from diverse materials. - Conduct a system readiness review based on outcomes from sub-scale demonstrations and validation tests on modular platforms. - Demonstrate pilot scale production capability on modular platforms.

- Conduct final mission design planning and verification testing of spacecraft subsystems. - Verify spacecraft and integrated sensor performance through full fidelity Software-in-the-Loop (SWIL) simulations.

- Iterate sounding rocket design trials with more diverse, impure, and complex mixed material inputs. - Conduct a critical design review evaluating the performance of the systems based on demonstrations. - Demonstrate and validate adaptively redesigned pressure vessel formed from government-provided scrap material inputs of increased…

- Enhanced Propulsion Efficiency: Analyze new propulsion technologies, such as Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) among others, that offer the potential for increased fuel efficiency in flight, leading to longer range and reduced operating costs. - Improved Thrust-to-Weight Ratio: Design a higher thrust-to-weight ratio that could enable…

- Initiate research approaches for technologies that enable decisive military effects at distances from the tactical to the strategic. - Explore new insertion routes and cost/fuel efficient range improvements. - Research technologies for pervasive persistence for observation and constant low-level engagement, supporting blue force and…

- Initiate challenge logistic set up following public announcement. - Conduct challenge event including set up, competition, award announcement, and tear down.

- Complete demonstrator production and subsystem integration. - Complete ground-based testing. - Execute flight test campaign. - Complete flight-testing review and data delivery.