t43562, #13, I agree, however there is no hard and fast line between
TRLs, particularly wrt lead time and emergent technologies.
I would expected that BAe, or any manufacturer, to include higher TRLs as and when the content is available, particularly those with corporate benefit or ‘unpublished’ national benefit.
Such research contracts might also be one means of public disclosure of previously hidden work.
I interpret the announcement as referring to ‘future’ FCAS, and not necessarily the next one, where current development time scales are shortening, re #14,