Aeronautics Committee Report to the NASA Advisory Council

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Aeronautics Committee Report to the NASA
Advisory Council

• Gen. Lester Lyles (Chairman)
• Dr. John Sullivan
• Dr. Gene Covert
• Dr. Ilan Kroo
• Dr. Ray Colladay (ex-officio)
• October 16, 2008

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Areas of Interest Explored at Current Meeting

• Col. Jeffrey S. Turcotte, Chief of the Air and
  Weapons Division, Air Force Research Laboratory,
  Wright Patterson Air Force Base
• Status of Agreements Between AFRL and NASA
  Aeronautics Research
• Sense and avoid systems for UAVs and airspace
  technology for NextGen
• Dr. Kenneth W. Barker, Chief Engineer, Air Force
  Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force
  Base
• Technology Transition process improvements
  resulting from the USAF Smart Operations for the
  21st Century initiative.
• Dr. Jaiwon Shin, Associate Administrator,
  Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
• Presentation on NASAs Aeronautics Research and
  ARMDs Response to the NACs Recommendation for
  System-Level Work
• Dr. Robie Samanta-Roy, Assistant Director for
  Space and Aeronautics, Office of Science and
  Technology Policy
• Presentation on the Technical Appendix to the
  National Plan for Aeronautics RD and Related
  Infrastructure

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Status of Agreements AFRL and NASA Aeronautics
Research

• Col Jeff Turcotte
• AFRL/XPA
• 14 Oct 2008

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AFRL Mission

• Leading the discovery, development, and
  integration of affordable warfighting
  technologies for our air, space and cyberspace
  force.

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ST Customers/Stakeholders
CSAF SecAF
I-CRRA Capability Shortfalls
AFMC/CC
SAF/AQ
AFSPC/CC
MAJCOMs
DDRE
SAF/US
DSB/SAB
Wargaming
System Program Offices
Congress
Capability-based Planning and Programming
PARNTERSHIPS
DARPA
ARMY
NAVY
NASA
DOE
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Some On-Going Agreements
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Summary

• AFRL is working with NASA in many areas, as it
  should
• Additional agreements are welcome wherever they
  make sense
• Unique/underutilized facilities
• Unique expertise
• Synergistic benefits where missions overlap
• Sharing results is a no-brainer in most cases

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Committee Observation

• Observation
• NASA and the USAF have significant collaborative
  activities
• Much of the collaborations takes place at the
  working level, where there exists a network of
  researchers working in related fields

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Technical Appendix to the National Plan for
Aeronautics RD and Related Infrastructure
Robie I. Samanta RoyAssistant Director for Space
and Aeronautics Office of Science and Technology
Policy

• NAC Aeronautics Committee Meeting
• 15 October 2008

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NAC Aeronautics Committee Observation
Recommendation from April 2008 Meeting

• Observation
• The National Aeronautics RD Policy and the
  follow-on Implementation Plan lay out the roles
  and responsibilities of participating federal
  agencies, including NASA, in a collaborative
  effort to advance U.S. technological leadership
  in aeronautics.
• In the Committees view, the NASA Aeronautics
  program, while currently conducting high quality
  research, is insufficient in scope to achieve the
  U.S. leadership objectives implicit in the
  Presidents Aeronautical RD Policy.
• Recommendation
• ARMD should plan and develop candidate
  systems-level research projects of highest
  priority that should be evaluated and considered
  by NASA for augmentation in the FY2010 (and out
  years) budget request.
• These projects should be consistent with the
  objectives and themes of the National
  Aeronautical RD Policy and Implementation Plan,
  leverage NASAs unique expertise and
  competencies, and reflect the priorities of the
  NRCs Decadal Survey for aeronautics.

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NASAs Aeronautics Research and ARMDs Response
to the NACs Recommendation for System-Level Work

• Overview to the Aeronautics Committee
• of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC)
• Dr. Jaiwon Shin
• ARMD Associate Administrator
• October 15, 2008

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ARMD Response

• Integrated system-level research to address
  national problem
• Integrate advanced operational concepts and new
  aircraft and engine technologies to safely
  increase capacity and reduce fuel burn, noise and
  emissions.
• Demonstrate integration of new aircraft and
  engine technologies through system level
  experimentation to simultaneously reduce fuel
  burn, noise, and emissions
• Demonstrate the capability to conduct in-situ
  field testing of concepts which integrate
  surface, super-density, separation assurance
  and/or traffic flow management elements
• Understand and mitigate safety concerns to fully
  and safely exploit new capabilities

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New System-level Research Focus
VEHICLE THEME
OPERATIONS THEME
Achieving Significantly Reduced Fuel Burn By
Integration of Multiple Technologies

• Based on existing NASA data, investment in
  terminal procedures has the most benefit to fuel
  reduction
• Continuous climbs and descents (at top-27
  airports)
• Direct routing/improved re-routing/collaborative
  TFM
• No-stop taxi operations (arrivals only at 35
  OEP airports)

1 Hybrid wing configuration 2 1
advanced engine and airframe technologies 3
2 embedded engines with BLI inlets 4
3 laminar flow

• Reduce noise
• Reduce emissions

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Coordination With Other Efforts

• JPDO/FAA Demonstrations
• The new activity should compliment any planned
  JPDO demonstrations, including applications on
  FAAs South Florida testbed.
• The new activity is focused on establishing a
  more extensive capability to test new operational
  concepts rather than maturing a few operational
  concepts that are ready for implementation

• FAA CLEEN
• NASA is also significantly involved in the
  technical aspects of this effort
• CLEEN focuses on more mature technologies (i.e.
  N1) while the new focused activities are
  intended to explore more advanced (N2)
  technologies
• The new activities are more closely related to
  the existing base research portfolio.

• NASA/FAA Research Transition Teams
• The new activity will directly support two of the
  RTTs Integrated Arrival/Departure/ Surface RTT
  and Efficient Flow Into Congested Airspace RTT
• The improved analysis capability should benefit
  the future transition of other technologies that
  are not yet ready for the RTTs.

• Industry
• ASP System Study NRA Integration of Advanced
  Vehicles Into NextGen
• FAP N3 System Study NRA Advanced Concept
  Studies for Subsonic and Supersonic Commercial
  Transports Entering Service in the 2030-2035
  Period

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Summary and Committee Observations

• ARMD has been very responsive to the Council
  recommendation
• The proposed system-level research will have a
  major impact on aviation and the environment
• This system-level research builds on the progress
  that has been made in the past two years in the
  foundational program