AIAA Board

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AIAA Board Task Force on the Strategic Plan
August 2001
Sheila Widnall for The Task Force
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Membership
  Ms. Christine Anderson Dr. John Ruth Dr.
Michael Griffin Directors at Large Dr. James
Van Hoften Director International Dr Robert
Winn VP-Elect Tech Activities
Mr. Kenneth Sanger VP Finance Dr. Roger
Simpson VP Publications Mr. Phil Cheney
IDC Liaison Dr. Sheila Widnall Past
President Chair
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Charter

• Take an enterprise look at AIAA as modified by
  the new initiatives outlined in the Strategic
  Plan Aerospace Information and Communications
  Air Traffic Management Logistics and Systems
  Architecture and Systems Engineering

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Charter (cont.)

• Perform an in-depth assessment of the steps
  needed to launch a successful journal of
  aerospace information and communications.
  Prepare a detailed implementation plan. Include
  AIAAs program in Air Traffic Management.
• Report the Task Force findings to the AIAA
  Board in August

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Part I Charter
Take an enterprise look at AIAA as modified by
the new initiatives outlined in the Strategic
Plan Aerospace Information and Communications
Air Traffic Management Logistics and Systems
Architecture and Systems Engineering
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Part I Charter Scoping

• Prepare an enterprise-level template aligning
  the activities of AIAA with the new initiatives
  outlined in the Strategic Plan.
• Map the AIAA Technical Committees onto the new
  enterprise level template. Suggest changes in TAC
  structure to accommodate the new areas of
  emphasis.
• Map the AIAA Technical Meetings onto the
  enterprise-level template. Identify any gaps or
  opportunities for synergism, new offerings, and
  additional sessions.

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Part I Charter Scoping (cont)

• Align the current journals with the template,
  identify gaps in coverage and suggest changes in
  charters of existing journals to accommodate the
  change in emphasis out lined in the strategic
  plan--assumes the creation of a new journal in
  Aerospace Information and Communications
• Include AIAAs program in Air Traffic Management.

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Current AIAA Organization 7 Technical
GroupsEach Reporting to a Technical Director who
is an AIAA Board member
Aerospace Sciences-Unchanged
 Aircraft Technology Integration Operations
Engineering Technology Mngt
Information Logistics Systems
Propulsion Energy-Unchanged
Space Missile Systems
Structures, Design Test-Unchanged
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Overview

• Aerospace engineering consists of a nested set of
  disciplines ranging from the most fundamental
  aerospace sciences, through systems architecture
  and engineering to the design and technical
  aspects of the operation of complex aircraft and
  spacecraft platforms
• To serve its members and its industry, AIAA
  should be a leader in all of these engineering
  disciplines--a full-service professional society
  for the aerospace professional and the industry

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AIAA Enterprise-Level Task Force Proposal
Refocus, Realign and Regroup the Technical
Activities Committees and the TAC Groups to
Illuminate the Relations between them and support
the objectives of the Strategic Plan
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Recommendations Highlights

• Form an integrated information and
  communications group
• Strengthen the systems architecture,
  engineering, design, production, management group
• Strengthen the systems and operational focus of
  aircraft and space and missiles groups

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Proposed Enterprise-Level AIAA Template
AIRCRAFT AND AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND
OPERATIONS
SPACE AND MISSLE SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS
SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONS
SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, DESIGN,
DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATING DISCIPLINES
AEROSPACE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
AERODYNAMICS AND AEROSPACE SCIENCES
STRUCTURES
PROPULSION
FUNDAMENTAL DISCIPLINES
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Proposed Regrouping Of TAC To Accomplished
Enterprise Goals
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Information Logistics Systems---Realign To
Aerospace Information and Communications
Aerospace Maintenance

Communications Systems Computer Systems
Digital Avionics Information and Command
Control Systems Intelligent Systems Sensor
Systems Software Systems Space Logistics
Support Systems Systems Effectiveness
Safety
move
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Engineering Technology Management -- Realign
to Systems Integration Architecture,
Engineering, Design, Development, Management
Risk Management of Aerospace Systems Product
Development and Program Management Production
Systems and Manufacturing Supply Chain
Management and Logistics Multidisciplinary
Design Optimization Economics History
Legal Aspects Aero Astro Aerospace
Management Society Aerospace Technology
Technical Information Systems Engineering


Introduce/acquire
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Aircraft Tech. Integration Operations--
Realign to Aircraft and Air Transportation
Systems and Operations Air Transportation
Systems Air Traffic Management

Aircraft Design

Aircraft Operations

Flight Testing

General Aviation Systems

Lighter-than-Air Systems

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
V/STOL Aircraft Systems Support
Systems Aircraft Systems Effectiveness and
Safety Aircraft Maintenance
Introduce/acquire
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Space Missile Systems --Realigned to Space and
Missile Systems and Operations Life Sciences
Systems Microgravity Space Processes
Missile Systems Space Automation Robotics
Space Operations Support Space
Systems Space Logistics Space Transportation
Weapon System Effectiveness Range Management,
Safety and Operations Mission Assurance and
Reliability
Introduce/acquire
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AIAA Meetings

• AIAA both co-sponsors and sponsors technical
  meetings on a wide spectrum of technical issues
  from fundamental aerospace sciences to systems
  and policy level meetings such as Global Air and
  Space.
• In order to have a substantial presence in the
  areas identified for new initiatives, and to
  support the production of journal articles, AIAA
  must host important meetings in these areas.

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Existing Cluster Meetings
AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference
Exhibit AIAA Guidance Navigation Control
Conference Exhibit AIAA Modeling Simulation
Technologies Conference Exhibit 6 - 9 Aug
2001 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Struct, Structural Dyn
and Mat. 10th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures
Conference 4th AIAA Non-Deterministic
Approaches Forum 22 - 25 Apr 2002 Denver,
Colorado
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Existing Cluster Meetings (cont.)
33rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference 21st AIAA
Applied Aerodynamics Conference 37th AIAA
Thermophysics Conference 34th AIAA
Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference 16th AIAA
Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference 23 - 26
Jun 2003 - Orlando, Florida
Propulsion Meetings Are Joint
37TH AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion
Conference 8 - 11 Jul 2001 Salt Lake City, Utah
AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
Exhibit 7 - 10 Jul 2002 Indianapolis, Indiana
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Models and Strategies To Enhance AIAA Meetings
for New Thrust Areas

• Expand the range of an existing meeting
• Add to an existing cluster
• Co-sponsor meetings with other prof. soc.
• New stand alone meetings

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• Notional Strategies for Meetings
• Aerospace Information and Communications
• Air Traffic Management
• Logistics
• Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering

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Aerospace Information and Communications

• Cluster meeting with IEEE Digital Avionics
• Co-Sponsor IEEE Digital Avionics
• Cluster meeting with GC
• Co-sponsor with DOD, Software Systems Mtg
• Co-Sponsor NDIA Tri-Service Interoperability
  Conf.
• Fundamental session at Reno Meeting to attract
  university interest

Specifics to be determined by TAC Committees and
AIAA staff
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Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering
These are inherently integrative recommend not
isolating but clustering with groups up and down
the discipline range

• Fundamental sessions at Aerospace Sciences
  meeting to lay foundation for University research
  and curriculum
• Systems oriented sessions or cluster meetings at
  aircraft and air transportation systems and space
  systems meetings to advance the application of
  discipline
• Cluster at GC meeting on systems aspects of
  flight dynamics or other systems aspects

Specifics to be determined by TAC Committees and
AIAA staff
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Logistics

• Focus on Low-Cost Support Approaches
• Partner with AV Week
• Aircraft Logistic Cluster at Air Transportation
  Meting
• Space Logistics at Space Meeting
• Fundamental and Integrative Material included in
  systems meetings

Specifics to be determined by TAC Committees and
AIAA staff
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Air Traffic Management

• Cluster meeting with Air Transportation Meeting
• Cluster meeting with GC
• Stand alone Meeting--co-sponsored by FAA? NASA?
• Insure Global Focus

Specifics to be determined by TAC Committees and
AIAA staff
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Existing AIAA Journals Scope and
Coverage Alignment
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AIAA JOURNAL   ..aeroacoustics, aerodynamics,
combustion, fundamentals of propulsion, fluid
mechanics and reacting flows, fundamental aspects
of the aerospace environment, hydrodynamics,
lasers and associated phenomena, plasmas,
research instrumentation and facilities,
structural mechanics and materials, optimization,
and thermomechanics and thermochemistry. .recent
research developments on any of the topics listed
above.
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JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE, CONTROL, AND DYNAMICS
  ..guidance, control, and dynamics .technical
knowledge, exploratory developments, design
criteria, and applications in aeronautics,
astronautics, celestial mechanics, and related
fields. ..dynamics, stability, guidance, control,
navigation, optimization, electronics, avionics,
and information processing related to
aeronautical and astronautical and marine
systems. .application of recent research to
practical engineering problems...aspects of the
dynamics and control of significant recent
developments, such as a new or different aircraft
or spacecraft, also are desired.
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JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER aerospace
propulsion and power airbreathing, electric, and
advanced propulsion solid and liquid rockets
fuels and propellants power generation and
conversion for aerospace vehicles terrestrial
energy devices and systems. research through
development to applications. combustion, fluid
mechanics, and solid mechanics directly related
to propulsion and power. JOURNAL OF
THERMOPHYSICS AND HEAT TRANSFER thermophysics
and heat transfer ..thermal energy transfer and
storage in gases, liquids, and solids or
combinations thereof. conductive, convective,
and radiative modes alone or in combination and
the effects of the environment.  
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 JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS .spacecraft
and missile systems, subsystems, applications,
missions, environmental interactions, and space
sciences. .spacecraft and missile
configurations, re-entry, transatmospheric
vehicles, mission design and analysis, applied
and computational fluid dynamics, applied
aerothermodynamics, materials and structures for
spacecraft and missile applications, space
instrumentation, .space sciences, processing,
manufacturing, and operations, interactions with
spacecraft and sensors, ..sensors and experiments
for space, and applications of space technologies
to other fields. .ground-support systems,
manufacturing, integration and testing, launch
control, recovery and repair, space
communications, scientific data processing, and
human and environmental factors in spacecraft and
mission design. effects of propulsion, guidance
and control, thermal management, and structural
systems on spacecraft and missile design and
performance.
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JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT ...science and technology of
airborne flight ..operations.. applications to
other fields. aircraft systems
multidisciplinary design optimization, flight
mechanics, flight and ground testing, applied
computational fluid dynamics, flight safety,
weather.. noise hazards, human factors, airport
design, airline operations, application of
computers including artificial
intelligence/expert systems, production methods,
engineering economic analyses, affordability,
reliability, maintainability, and logistics
support, integration of propulsion and control
systems, aircraft aerodynamics, structural
design/dynamics, and aeroacoustics. general
aviation, military and civilian aircraft, STOL,
V/STOL, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, and
hypersonic aircraft.
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Observations
With exception of Journal of Aircraft, existing
Journals are well scoped and contain material
that aligns with new initiatives (assumes new
AIC Journal)
Journal of Aircraft

• Strategic Plan recommends increased emphasis on
  air transportation and systems level issues of
  aircraft operations plus application of broader
  range of disciplines to aircraft systems
• Journal of Aircraft does not cover well its
  existing scope beyond aerodynamics.

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Expectations and Recommendations

• With the increased emphasis on systems level
  issues, the Journal of Aircraft should receive
  more submissions reflecting the breadth of its
  existing scope. Ensure that suitable editors
  evaluate these.
• With the increased emphasis on Air Traffic
  Management, the scope of the Journal of Aircraft
  should be broadened to include Air
  Transportation.
• Special issues of the Journal of Aircraft should
  be designated to focus on Air Traffic Management
  and other system level issues such as Logistics,
  Maintenance, Production and Product Development,
  etc. These should flow naturally from AIAA
  meetings.

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Summary of Recommendations AIAA Enterprise Level

• Form an integrated information and communications
  group
• Strengthen the systems architecture, engineering,
  design, production, management group
• Strengthen the systems and operational focus of
  aircraft and space and missiles groups, include
  transportation

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Summary of Recommendations AIAA Enterprise Level
(cont.)

• Develop a Strategy to Ensure Robust AIAA Meetings
  in New Areas of Emphasis

• Ensure Editorial Balance for Journal of Aircraft
• Broaden Scope of Journal of Aircraft to include
  Air Transportation.
• Designate special issues of the Journal of
  Aircraft to focus on Air Traffic Management
  Logistics Maintenance Production and Product
  Development, etc. as appropriate.

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Part II Charter

• Perform an in-depth assessment of the steps
  needed to launch a successful journal of
  aerospace information and communications.
  Prepare a detailed implementation plan.

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Part II Charter Scoping

• Perform an in-depth assessment of the steps
  needed to launch a successful journal of
  aerospace information and communications and to
  make AIAA the disciplinary home of this important
  aerospace field.
• Prepare a detailed implementation plan.
•  Review journal offerings of other engineering
  societies
• Draft a charter describing the coverage of this
  new journal.

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Launching A Successful Journal of Aerospace
Information and Communication will require 1.
Strong Technical Committees in the relevant
disciplines-TAC/Board 2. Strong AIAA
Meetings-TAC 3. Attracting Disciplinary Leaders
as Authors and Editors-Publications 4. A Unique
Presence, an AIAA nitch-TAC/Publications 5.
Connection with University Departments in
relevant disciplines-TAC/Publications/Board
outreach 6. Industrial Support for paper
presentations/Board outreach
Responsible AIAA Unit
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Competing Journals in Information and
Communication
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Testament to the importance of Information in all
engineering Disciplines
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• Information Technology is Remaking all
  Engineering Disciplines
• 65 of New Engineers Hired by Aerospace were in
  IT--Ballhaus

AIAA Unique Presence
Design, Development and Operation of Smart
Integrated Aerospace Systems and the Fundamental
Information and Communications Disciplines
Underlying These Efforts
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     Candidate Scope JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (TECHNOLOGY?)      
                                  This journal
is devoted to the applied science and technology
of aerospace information and communications
through the dissemination of original archival
research papers disclosing significant scientific
and technical knowledge and concepts,
experimental results, and applications in
aeronautics, astronautics, and related fields.
The journal publishes qualified papers on
aircraft, spacecraft, and satellite computing and
communications real-time embedded computing
systems and software architectures communication
networks software engineering human-automation
interaction systems engineering and
architecture, and applications of information
technology in aerospace such as air traffic
control, avionics systems, flight simulation,
satellite navigation flight control integration
and autonomous systems.
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Kitchen Cabinet for the New Journal Developed
the Scope
Prof. Vincent Chan, Dept EECS/Aero Astro/ MIT,
Dir Lab for Information and Decision Sciences
space communication Prof. Nancy Levenson, Dept
Aero/Astro/MIT, Dir Software Eng Lab software
safety, flight critical software Prof Ed
Feigenbaum, Former Head, Dept Comp Science
Stanford, former Chief Scientist, Dept of the Air
Force Dr. Ruth Davis, DOD, NAE
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Outreach Plan

• Prepare Material Describing AIAAs New Thrusts
• Outreach to Industry to Identify new TAC Members
  and seek support for membership and member
  attendance at AIAA events
• Editorials in Existing AIAA Journals Explaining
  New AIAA Thrusts and Relation of Existing
  Journals to New Journal Of Aerospace Information
  and Communications.
• Outreach to Aerospace Departments to Encourage
  New Thrusts-enhanced opportunity for faculty and
  student publications

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Outreach Plan (cont)

• Dedicated Web Site to Highlight Aerospace
  Information and Communication Thrust
• Highlight Upcoming Meetings
• Include Preprints of Information/Communications
  Papers From AIAA Meetings
• Post Names of TC Members and Editorial Board of
  New Journal

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Next Steps

• Board Approves in Principle Task Force
  Implementation Plan
• AIAA VPs and Technical Directors Prepare
  Detailed Plans for Meetings, Technical Committee
  Restructuring and New Journal for Presentation in
  Jan 2002.
• Outreach PlanBoard and AIAA Staff
• Membership and Marketing Plan-VP Membership

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Motion The AIAA Board Approves in Principle the
Report of the Task Force on The Strategic Plan
and Directs the Relevant Technical Directors and
VPs to Present Implementation Plans to the Board
in January 2002 AIAA Staff To Begin Preparation
of Outreach Plan and Materials.