Aerospace Vehicle Technologies

Abstract

This program investigates, develops, and analyzes aerospace vehicle technologies in the three primary areas of structures, controls, and aeromechanics. Advanced structures concepts are explored and developed to exploit new materials, fabrication processes, and design techniques. Flight control technologies are developed and simulated for aerospace vehicles. Advanced aerodynamic vehicle configurations are developed and analyzed through simulations, experiments, and multi-disciplinary analyses. Resulting technologies improve performance of existing and future manned and remotely piloted air and space access vehicles. Improvements include but are not limited to reduced energy use by efficient air platform designs; use of lightweight composite structures; improved sustainment methods based upon the condition of the platform and sub-systems. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Reliance 21 process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research, since it develops and determines the technical feasibility and military utility of evolutionary and revolutionary aerospace vehicle technologies.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0602201F_2_3600_PB_2012
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Adaptive Optics
• Aerodynamic Configurations
• Aerospace Craft
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Airframes
• Boundary Layer
• Control Systems
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Hypervelocity Flow
• Materials
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• Simulations
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

• Space
• Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers