Integrated New Test Aircraft Capability (INTAC).
Abstract
The current and projected emphasis on declining budgets, reduced staffs, and tightened schedules, while trying to maintain or improve productivity, dictates a new approach to T&E that takes advantage of the ongoing technology explosion. Automation and standardization, combined with analysis and high technology simulation options, permit a new look at traditional Developmental Testing (DT). This proposed concept, called Integrated New Test Aircraft Capability (INTAC), involves using a high-fidelity, physical model based, generic structure simulation to certify the aircraft in a virtual environment, and using the aircraft to certify the simulation model. INTAC includes supporting, enhancing, augmenting, and ultimately automating traditional T&E and making this capability available at the pilot/engineer work area. INTAC promises to reinvent T&E by allowing test team members to do testing better, faster, cheaper, and safer. A high fidelity virtual air vehicle life cycle simulation capability, like INTAC, also gives the program manager better information on how to optimize the application of scarce future test dollars.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 11, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA300966
Entities
People
- Dean Carico
Organizations
- Naval Air Warfare Center