AeroVision 2000 NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

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AeroVision 2000 NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NEW
MILLENIUM

• Spence M. Armstrong
• August 9, 1999

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The NASA Thats Familiar...
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The NASA You May Not Know...
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Our 25-Year Vision
Three Pillars / Ten Goals
Reduce Accident Rates, 10x
Increase System Throughput, 3x
Reduce Cost of Air Travel by 50
Reduce Emissions, 5x
Reduce Noise, 4x
Global Civil Aviation
Cut Development Cycle Time in Half
Invigorate GA 20K units Annually
Reduce Trans-oceanic Travel time by 50
Revolutionary Technology Leaps
Reduce In-Space Transport cost, 10x by 2022
Reduce Launch Cost to LEO, 100x by 2020
Space Transportation
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Partnerships
Safety
Throughput
General Aviation
Access to Space
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Enhancing Safety
applying technology to solve problems of
Controlled Flight Into Terrain with Synthetic
Vision Technology
Developing a virtual window
Digital databases and highways in the sky
Sensors seeing through fog
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Improving Throughput
applying technology to solve problems in the
efficient operation of airspace
and in the air.
on the ground
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Revolutionizing General Aviation
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Merging Aeronautics and Space . . .
to create advanced aircraft and affordable space
access
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From Aeronautics to Aero-Space

• the total is greater than the sum of the parts

New challenges in the next millennium will
require aircraft and spacecraft to be smarter and
self-reliant
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Intelligent Flight Controls Demonstration
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X-34 IVHM Experiment
Efficient and Effective Operations
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IVHM Continuum
Monitoring Management Reporting
Reacting Diagnosis
Prognosis Sensors Intelligent
Sensing Human Control Distributed Control
Autonomous Vehicle Components
System Now Future
Planetary/ Deep Space
RLV
STS
ISS
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What the Future Holds...
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Back on the Ground...
Theres Still A Lot of Work To Do!