The Defence Research and Development Canada has issued another IDEaS Challenge, this one to be led by a university for hypersonic technology research.
DRDC is specifically looking to advance research in the following areas: Propulsion, flight dynamics, guidance-navigation-control, detection, and materials.
There is a $1 million value to the Challenge “over two years to develop a research micro-net to stimulate collaboration and build networks of expertise in support of Canada’s current and future defence and security needs.”
The Department of National Defence has released has what it call an emerging technology snapshot document titled Countermeasures against Hypersonic Weapons which you can view here and download.
According to the Challenge these are some of the areas of research they’re interested in:
- High-fidelity aerodynamic coefficients and flow physics;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) predictions for hypersonic flight vehicles;
- Control surface optimization for hypersonic vehicles;
- Rocket and airbreathing propulsion systems for hypersonic vehicles;
- Air intake design for hypersonic vehicles;
- Conventional, novel, and endothermic fuels for hypersonic vehicles;
- Injection, mixing, ignition, and combustion of fuels in engines for hypersonic vehicles;
- Guidance, navigation and control (GNC) algorithms for hypersonic vehicles;
- Novel control actuators for flight vehicles;
- Heat transfer and heat management of hypersonic vehicles;
- Materials and structures for hypersonic vehicles;
- Hypersonic stores separation;
- Ground testing for hypersonic technologies;
- Flight testing for hypersonic technologies; or
- Detection, identification, and tracking of hypersonic vehicles.
The competition is to run through the end of January 2028. The prize is a non-repayable contribution. Teams “must include multidisciplinary teams of partners from at least three separate eligible organizations and/or institutions, one of which must be a Canadian university.”