Low Cost Attritable Airframe Technology (LCAAT)
Abstract
LCAAT will develop and demonstrate technologies that enable rapid design, manufacturing, test and deployment of very low cost (essentially expendable) airframes. The strategic objective is to challenge the cost paradigm associated with current airframe manufacturing. LCAAT will conclude with a demonstration of an aircraft capable of 1000 nautical mile flight range and costing less than $3.00 million. This will be realized through a number of innovative prototyping and experimentation approaches that include new manufacturing technologies, very low cost life cycle control measures in the airframe design (i.e. reliability as needed, modelling and simulation for advance performance testing, etc). The effort will also include use of Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS) technology to develop fixed-wing trade space analysis tools to allow for rapid optimization and manufacturing of future systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- c9c03bed9a98c4fec77189394ea2969e