Tech Transition Program

Abstract

The Technology Transition Program (TTP) provides funding to demonstrate, prototype and experiment with technologies and concepts to enable or accelerate their transition to acquisition programs and/or operational use. TTP addresses the gap between initial technology or concept development and demonstration, and successful acquisition and operational capability implementation. Experimentation explores new concepts and their applications in potential future operating environments within a system-of-systems context. Prototyping enables integration and demonstration of emerging technologies as a bridge between the laboratory and the warfighter. TTP allows acquisition program managers (the capability developers) and warfighters (the capability recipients and end users) to prototype, integrate, and demonstrate candidate technologies and assess them in an operational environment in partnership with Program Executive Officers (PEO), schoolhouses, simulation facilities, and development planning organizations. For FY18, Project 645350, Transition Prioritization was re-named Experimentation to better describe the efforts in the project. For FY18, Project 645351, Advanced Engine Development was re-named Prototyping to better describe the efforts in the project. This program is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes, or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0604858F_4_3600_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
Reprogramming in FY 2016 reflects technology transition of Auto Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) to Air National Guard F-16 fleet. $2M FY 2017 Request for Additional Appropriations(RAA) to address Hypersonics Prototyping efforts. Increase in FY 2018 reflects acceleration of Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), AETP Air Superiority 2030+ study effort, Spectral Halo Pod prototyping, hypersonics prototyping, and low-cost attritable aircraft technology (LCAAT) prototyping.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Emerging Technology
  • Engine Components
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Jet Engines
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Applications
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Prototypes
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Turbines
  • Turbofan Engines

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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