USAF Funding Opportunity - Control Effectors for Supersonic Tailless Aircraft

This program will develop novel and innovative control effector approaches for supersonic tailless long-range strike aircraft. New concepts that break from current design paradigms could potentially yield lower weight, volume, cost, maintenance, and higher reliability than existing approaches that utilize actuators to deflect the aircraft outer mold line. The contractor shall define, characterize, and substantiate novel innovative control effector concepts that could be combined to provide the control surface power required to maintain Level I flying qualities for a supersonic tailless long-range strike aircraft. Multiple follow-on programs are planned and may be executed, if viable concepts are identified, to perform proof-of-concept demonstration, subsystem definition, system integration and analysis, and subsystem development and demonstration. Read more