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Simulating Extreme Heat and Speed Key Challenge for Draper in Mayhem Program

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

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Simulating Extreme Heat and Speed Key Challenge for Draper in Mayhem Program

A concept drawing of a Mayhem-developed hypersonic vehicle )AFRL and Leidos)

Simulating the high heat and speed of hypersonic systems is key for Massachusetts' Draper Laboratory in its work on the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Mayhem program. A Leidos [LDOS] team won a $334 million, 51-month AFRL contract for Mayhem last month and said that the initial task order would be the $24 milllion System Requirements Review/Conceptual Design Review in a digital engineering environment effort (Defense Daily, Dec. 19, 2021). Leidos' System Design Agent (SDA) team for Mayhem includes Calspan, Draper…

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