[[Home|🏠]] <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> <span class="no-hover">[[Contracts & Vehicles]]</span> <span style="color: LightSlateGray">></span> HTCDF >[!summary] Hypersonic Technologies & Capability Development Framework (HTCDF) >**Customer**: [[UK Ministry of Defence]] >**Contract Value**: **£1 Billion** (≈ $1.3 B) >**Type**: Multi-supplier Framework (IDIQ-like) >**Period**: Awards through **31 March 2031** >**Vehicle**: [[HASTE]] > >The **Hypersonic Technologies & Capability Development Framework (HTCDF)** is the MoD’s eight-lot contract vehicle for rapidly delivering a UK-sovereign hypersonic strike capability. Ninety organisations from industry and academia compete for R&D, prototyping, ground and flight-test work across propulsion, airframes, guidance, lethality packages and more. > [🔗 Program Summary](https://des.mod.uk/des-to-award-contracts-on-1-billion-framework-to-develop-uks-first-hypersonic-missile/) ## Activity ### On-Ramp - 14 Apr 2025 Rocket Lab (via its **[[HASTE]]** suborbital platform) was accepted as an HTCDF supplier, allowing it to bid launch-service and engineering task orders under any of the framework’s lots. >[!quote] Sir Peter Beck (CEO) on joining HTCDF >“The ability to contribute toward the collective security of the United States and the United Kingdom across both of these important programs is a proud moment… Keeping pace with global developments means more affordable tests at a higher rate that expands the boundaries of hypersonic technology.” ## Framework Structure (8 Lots) | Lot | Scope | | --- | ---------------------------------- | | 1 | Design & Integration | | 2 | Modelling & Testing | | 3 | Airframe & Power Generation | | 4 | Low-TRL Concepts | | 5 | Lethality Package (warhead & fuse) | | 6 | Propulsion | | 7 | On-board Computing | | 8 | Seekers | ## Competition HTCDF’s vendor pool consists of **90 suppliers**, ranging from primes such as BAE Systems, MBDA and QinetiQ to SMEs and universities; each may bid for any lot-specific task order. ## News %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ``` table published as "Published" from "News" where contains(contract, [[]]) sort published desc ``` %% | File | Published | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | [[News/Rocket Lab Onramped To Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. and U.K. Defense Contracts To Expand Hypersonic Technology Development with HASTE.md\|Rocket Lab Onramped To Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. and U.K. Defense Contracts To Expand Hypersonic Technology Development with HASTE]] | April 14, 2025 | %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%