Broad SOW for ORAU Researchers in DEVCOM ARL Flight Sciences Branch

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Flight Sciences Branch is soliciting researchers to contribute to ongoing research in aeroballistics and its application to guided and unguided Army munitions. The research focuses on Flight Dynamics and Control, involving the study of munition response to aerodynamic forces and moments, and control systems to increase range, evade counterfire, and improve target accuracy. Research areas include stability, drag, delivery errors, control actuation systems, thrust vectoring, and advanced control algorithms. A key project investigates novel methods using intelligent control to achieve autonomous abilities for weapon-target assignment, including path planning, cooperative networking, and fault-tolerance. The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to increase involvement of highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas relevant to the Army.