Call for CC DROIDS Attachments

FA2391-23-S-2403

PACER BAA

Attachment 1

26 July 2023

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

Collaborative Center for the Design and Research Of InterDisciplinary Systems

(CC DROIDS)

26 July 2023

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1. Purpose: The Aerospace Systems Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RQ) shall set up a partnership with an American university by establishing a Collaborative Center for the Design and Research Of InterDisciplinary Systems (CC DROIDS). The purpose of the CC DROIDS is to complement AFRL in pursuit of its goal to lead the research and development of novel design methods and tools for the optimization and assessment of revolutionary aerospace vehicles. CC DROIDS is an organizational concept to bolster common research interests through collaboration among the participants. Developing a Collaborative Center is expected to be mutually beneficial, increasing the agility and responsiveness of AFRL research efforts while providing experience and mentorship to students.
1.2. Competency Areas: The Multidisciplinary Sciences and Technology Center (MSTC) within AFRL leads the integration of multiple disciplines to discover and exploit new phenomena for system level optimization and the assessment of revolutionary aerospace vehicles from concept development through preliminary design. Our goal is to model systems--and systems of systems--to a level of fidelity necessary to capture the physics which drive system design and to perform design space exploration. Current competency areas within MSTC are:
1.2.1. Design Space Exploration: Multifidelity model-based systems engineering (MBSE); single-vehicle mission to campaign-level effectiveness analysis; system of systems analysis; cost effectiveness analysis; logistics and sustainment footprints; deterministic gradient and non-gradient based optimization methods; propulsion and subsystem integration; fuel and system thermal management; riskquantified large-scale (104 design variables, 106 constraints) design space exploration; high-fidelity system level design optimization. 1.2.2. Multifidelity Modeling and Analysis for Design Optimization: Sensitivity analysis; computational fluid dynamics; linear and nonlinear structural mechanics and structural dynamics; linear and nonlinear computational aerothermoelasticity; aeroservoelastic analysis; uncertainty quantification and design under uncertainty; goal-oriented adaptive, high-order finite-element analysis; aerodynamic conceptual design; novel configuration assessment; rapid assessment method