Aerospace Vehicle Technologies

Abstract

This program investigates, develops, and analyzes aerospace vehicle technologies in the three primary areas of structures, controls, and aerodynamics for legacy and future aerospace vehicles. Advanced structures concepts are explored and developed to exploit new materials, fabrication processes, and design techniques. Vehicle, inter-vehicle, and intra-vehicle 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 vehicles, sustained high speed, and space access vehicles. Improvements include, but are not limited to, reduced energy use by efficient air platform designs, use of lightweight composite structures, and improved sustainment methods based on the condition of the platform and sub-systems. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research, because this budget activity includes studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts directed toward general military needs with a view toward developing and evaluating the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions and determining their parameters.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0602201F_2_3600_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: Decreases in FY 2016 reflects reprogramming to support Research and Development Projects, 10 U.S.C. Section 2358.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Adaptive Control Systems
• Aerodynamic Configurations
• Aerospace Craft
• Aircraft Design
• Aircraft Equipment
• Aircrafts
• Airframes
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Control Systems
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• Tailless Aircraft
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Space