Sources sought
SOURCES SOUGHT FOR COOPERATIVE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS HYPERSONIC INFRARED TARGET SENSING – TRANSITION OPPORTUNITY (HITS-TO)
W911NF-26-HITS-TO
Department of the Army, W6QK ACC-APG Durham.
Offers due
September 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM EDT
14 days from now. Posted July 30, 2026, first published July 9, 2026.
Description
As published on SAM.gov.
COOPERATIVE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS HYPERSONIC INFRARED TARGET SENSING – TRANSITION OPPORTUNITY (HITS-TO) This Sources Sought notice is intended to create technology transition pathways from United States (U.S.) Department of War (DoW) (legally operating as the Department of Defense) laboratories to potential U.S. partners in industry, national labs, University Affiliated Research Center (UARCs), and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) working on material and technology solutions related to hypersonic infrared target sensing.
HITS-TO will mature transformational innovations and jointly create the leap-ahead technologies required to place an infrared seeker on a hypersonic weapon as rapidly as possible. No funding is available through this notice.
Amendment 1: Respondents may submit as many TCSS proposals as they choose, but each may address only one of the TO Objectives listed above. Please see the document HITS-TO SourcesSought_Revised.
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
Points of contact
- HITS RFIHITS_RFI@army.mil
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