AIAA Career Enhancement

1
Industry and Government Response to
Transportation RD Budget Levels
Edward J. Peak, P. E. Technical Committee on
Management
2
Transportation RD Budgets

• Looking narrowly at aerospace as
  transportationthe first A in NASA
• Transportation as key to success
• In business
• In war
• E-business?

3
Overview
Transportation Development

• Railroads
• Highways
• Air routes
• National Transportation Infrastructure

The federal role in transportation
4
Aerospace RD

• Effective models
• Skunk Works
• Phoenix Works
• Buoy Communications Project

5
Buoy Communications Station
6
BCS
7
BCS
8
RD Intensity

• RD expenditures as a percentage of annual sales
• 3.5 across many companies

9
Internal RD Funding

• Most industries use 80 or more
• Pharmaceuticals 99
• Industrial Machinery - 90
• Plastics/Synthetics 97
• Aerospace - 27

10
FEDERAL RD FUNDS

• All Industries 4
• Electronic Electrical 5
• Industrial Machinery Equip 7
• Aerospace Automotive 34

11
The Challenge

• Strategic planning for reduced federal dependence
• Commercial
• Foreign sales
• The lesson of Tigershark
• Other modes, Grumman buses, New Orleans street
  cars at 10M

12
Conclusions

• As a transportation mode, aerospace is funded
  differently
• With dependence on federal RD funding comes
  feast or famine
• Partnering in production, surebut how about in
  RD?