Aviation Research BAA 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Broad Agency Announcement 692M15-25-R-00004, titled Aviation Research BAA 2025, to support advanced aerospace and aviation research through a ten-year solicitation period running from December 5, 2024, to December 4, 2034. Administered by the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, this BAA invites proposals from industry, academia, and small businesses across multiple research domains including airport pavement engineering, structural integrity of metallic components, flight controls, fire safety, software and systems, and separation standards analysis. The solicitation has been amended multiple times to refine its scope, including the addition of new topics such as Advancing Concrete Strength Evaluation for Airport Pavement Design, Enhancement of Airport Pavement Layer Backcalculation Software (BAKFAA), and Nickel Anomaly Fatigue Testing, while removing outdated or redundant topics like the UAS Detection and Mitigation Research Program and a pavement roughness measurement initiative. Research efforts are primarily focused on improving pavement condition assessment, subsurface damage monitoring using embedded acoustic sensors, reflection cracking models in asphalt overlays, and field data analysis for engineering decision-making. Proposals must be submitted in two volumes: a Technical Volume not exceeding 25 pages and a Price/Cost Volume limited to 10 pages, with resumes for key personnel capped at three pages each and excluded from the page limits. Proposals must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format, use Times New Roman 12-point font, and comply with specific formatting rules. Cost proposals are evaluated for reasonableness, realism, and affordability but are not scored—award decisions prioritize technical merit, relevance to FAA’s research mission, team competency, project feasibility, and technical risk, with no lowest-price-not-technically-acceptable (LPTA) approach applied. Offerors must disclose organizational or personal conflicts of interest, provide detailed intellectual property rights assertions, and submit subcontracting plans if the award exceeds $750,000 and they are not a small business. All deliverables, including source and executable software code and technical data, must be submitted to the FAA. Proposals require active Unique Entity Identifiers from SAM.gov and adherence to representations and certifications for small business status and socioeconomic categories. Performance is expected to be conducted remotely or at the contractor’s facility, with inspections occurring on-site using FAA-recognized standards such as ASTM D534
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This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), for Screening Information Request 692M15-25-R-00004, is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and will be open for ten (10) years from December 5, 2024. The BAA will be valid through December 4, 2034, unless terminated sooner. This BAA supports research interests from the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace, Aviation Research Division, which is located at Atlantic City International Airport, Atlantic City, NJ and other FAA organizations as required. See attached documents.
Amendment 011 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARSP0002 Hydrogen Aviation Safety Research and remove ARAP0007 Designing and Implementing an Embedded Acoustic Sensor System for Monitoring Subsurface Damage in Concrete Test Pavements at NAPTF; ARAP0008 Design Model for Reflection Cracking in Airport Asphalt Overlays of Rigid Pavements; and ARAP0011 Scale Effects in Reflective Cracking: Table-Scale versus Full-Scale Overlay Tests.
Amendment 010 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARAP0015 Advancing Concrete Strength Evaluation for Airport Pavement Design and Construction
Amendment 009 is issued to remove BAA Topic of Interest ARSS0002 Flight Controls and Mechanical Systems and correct POC information for Topic ARSM0001 Structural Integrity of Metallic Components
Amendment 008 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARSM0001 Structural Integrity of Metallic Components
Amendment 007 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARSP0001 Nickle Anomoly Fatigue Testing
Amendment 006 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARAP0014 Advancing Pavement Condition Assessment Practices for Airport Pavements.
Amendment 005 is issued to delete BAA Topic of Interest ARAP0001 Develop Measurements, Specifications, and Guidance for Multiple Bump Events of Airport Pavement Roughness to Supplement the Existing Pavement Surface Boeing Bump Index (BBI).
Amendment 004 is issued to add BAA Topic of Interest ARAP0013 Enhancement of Airport Pavement Layer Backcalculation Software (BAKFAA).
Amendment 003 is issued to remove BAA Topic of Interest ARAS0009 Airport Unmanned Aircraft System(s) (UAS) Detection and Mitigation Research Program which was previously deleted under Amendment 001.
Amendment 002 is issued to add BAA Topics of Interest ARAP0012 Engineering Analysis of Field Monitoring and Instrumentation Data and ARSS0009 Future of Oversight.
Amendment 001 is issued to delete BAA Topic of Interest ARAS0009 Airport Unmanned Aircraft System(s) (UAS) Detection and Mitigation Research Program.
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