Great Horned Owl program IARPA

Just make them quiet..

Officials of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Smart Collection Office in Washington issued a broad agency announcement Wednesday (IARPA-BAA-11-12) for the initial phase of the Great Horned Owl (GHO) program, which seeks to develop fuel-to-electricity systems that couple advanced combustion engines to alternators or generators, as well as electricity-to-thrust devices that use electric motor propulsion systems.

The Great Horned Owl (GHO) Program seeks to develop technologies that significantly extend the operational endurance and payload capabilities of ISR UAVs. The anticipated innovation in this first phase of the program is a propulsion system that will quietly generate electrical power from liquid hydrocarbon fuel (specifically gasoline or diesel) and enable purely electrically driven quiet flight. The specific propulsion subsystems that this BAA is interested in funding are (1) fuel-to-electricity devices using an advanced combustion engine directly coupled to alternator/generator concepts and (2) electricity-to-thrust devices utilizing innovative electric motor driven propulsor systems.

This BAA is soliciting proposals for Phase 1 only, which will last 15 months.

Contracting Office Address:
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Washington, District of Columbia 20511
United States

Primary Point of Contact:
Sam Wilson dni-iarpa-baa-11-12@ugov.gov

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=b002ecba78408a909214480e3668c8c6