Aerospace Propulsion and Power Technology

Abstract

This program develops and demonstrates technologies to achieve enabling and revolutionary advances in turbine, advanced-cycle, rocket, and space propulsion as well as electrical power, thermal management, and fuels. The program has five current projects, each focusing on technologies with a high potential to enhance the performance of existing and future Air Force weapon systems. The Aerospace Power Technology project develops and demonstrates adaptive power and thermal management components, controls, and systems for high-power payloads and aircraft as part of energy-optimized aircraft development. The Aircraft Propulsion Subsystems Integration project develops demonstrator engines by integrating the engine cores demonstrated in the Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator project with low-pressure components. The Advanced Aerospace Propulsion project develops the scramjet propulsion cycle to a technology readiness level appropriate for in-flight demonstration and for full integration with other engine cycles (including turbine and rocket based). The Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator project develops and demonstrates core turbine engine technologies for current and future aircraft propulsion systems. The Missile Rocket Propulsion project develops and demonstrates innovative rocket propulsion technologies, propellants, and manufacturing techniques. All transfers detailed below are administrative realignments due to the stand up of the United States Space Force, and not new starts. This work will continue to be executed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Technology Directorate located in Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, or Arnold Air Force Base, TN. In FY 2022, the work and funding associated with advanced space technology demonstrations in Program 0603216F, Aerospace Propulsion, Project 634922, Space & Missile Rocket Propulsion, are transferred to Appropriation 3620F, Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Space Force, Program 1206616SF, Space Advanced Technology Development/Demo, Project 634922, Space & Missile Rocket Propulsion, due to the creation of a new Appropriation for Space Force. In FY 2022, the work and funding associated with missile rocket propulsion technologies in Program 0603216F, Aerospace Propulsion, are transferred from Project 634922, Space & Missile Rocket Propulsion, to Project 634093, Missile Rocket Propulsion Integ & Demo due to the creation of a new Appropriation for Space Force. The Department of the Air Force technologies in this program are both enabling and enduring as we invest in maturing emerging technologies that address established mission gaps, and transformational technologies that address integrated enterprise capabilities intended to reshape the future force across air, space, and cyber warfighting domains. Development of transformational operational capabilities through advanced technology solutions focuses on five strategic capabilities: Global Persistent Awareness; Resilient Information Sharing; Rapid, Effective Decision-Making; Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass; and Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science & technology capabilities. The use of program funds in this program element would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0601102F, 0602020, 0602102F, 0602201F, 0602202F,0602203F, 0602204F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 0602298F, and 1206601SF. Projects 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 3, Advanced Technology Development because this budget activity includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0603216F_3_3600_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY 2021 reflects reprogramming to support Research and Development Projects, 10 U.S.C. Section 2363, an amendment to PL 110-417, 10 U.S.C. Section 2358 and 10 U.S.C. 2805(d)(1)(B). The FY2022 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY2023 through FY2026 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the change between the two budget positions for FY2023 cannot be made in a relevant manner.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Advanced Materials
• Aerospace Industry
• Aircraft Engines
• Aircraft Equipment
• Aircrafts
• Airframes
• Control Systems
• Fabrication
• Manufacturing
• Propulsion Systems
• Rocket Propulsion
• Space Force
• Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
• Turbines
• Turbojet Engines
• Turboshaft Engines
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Physics

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space
• Space - Hall-Effect Thruster