# Presentation: 421249

## Aerospace Technology Perspectives

**Aerospace Technology Perspectives**

**Dick Paul**
**VP, Strategic Development**
**Phantom Works**

## Why Discuss?

**Why Discuss?**

- To promote broad awareness of aerospace research and technology
- To provoke thought and new perspectives
- To forge a unified aerospace community message

***The future of Aerospace Technology is being questioned***

## Outline

- The Importance - The Players
- R&D Funding
- Global Perspective
- Aerospace Technology Components
- Boeing Priorities
- The Message

## Importance of Aerospace Technology

** **

**National ****Security**

**Air**** Transportation**

**Access **
**to **
**Space**

***A foundation for economic and national security***

## National Need forAerospace Technology

- National security
- Technology for future modernization
- New flight regimes, UAVs, network centric systems
- Sustainment of the force
- Access to space
- Safe, reliable, and lower cost access to space
- Air transportation
- Safe, convenient, and reliable air transportation
- CNS/ATM, capacity, and mobility

## Trade Balance by Industry, 1998

**Mining**
- Miscellaneous manufacturing industries
- Apparel and related products
- Electronic equipment except computers
- Transportation equipment excluding aerospace

**Aerospace**
- Chemicals and allied products
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
- Tobacco products
- Instruments
- Food and kindred products

**-75****	****-65****	****-55****	****-45****	****-35****	****-25****	****-15****	****-5****	****5****	****15****	****25****	****35****	****45**

**Dollars (Billions)**

## The Players(Aerospace Technology)

|  | DoD | NASA/FAA | Industry |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| National Security | X | x | X |
| Access to Space | X | X | X |
| Air Transportation | x | X | X |

**DoD**

**NASA, ****FAA**

**Industry**

***Teamwork, Collaboration, Leverage***

## Aerospace R&D vs DoD RDT&E

- ($, millions of 1999)

## Aeronautics Share of National R&D Funding

**25%**
**20%**
**15%**
**10%**
**5%**
**0%**

**1977**

**1980**

**1984**

**1988**

**1992**

**1996**

## NASA Aeronautics Funding History

- $, Millions of FY 1998 constant year dollars

## Technology Spectrum(Centers of Gravity)

**New ****Phenomenon**

**Revolutionary**

**Evolutionary**

**Advanced ****Development**

**Boeing IR&D**

**Research**

**Applied research**

**Advanced development**

**Government Must Fund Long-term Research**

## The Research Formula

**The Research Formula**

- Healthy ResearchEnvironment

- =	A	+	B	+	C

- Increased investment
-     • Individual organization
-       research accounts
-     • Collaboration and leverage
- Reduced costs
-     • Multidimensional efficiencies
- Right-sized assets
-     • Infrastructure reductions

- =	A	+	B	+	C

- A

- B

- C

## US Aerospace Market Share in Decline

- Share of “Global” Aerospace Sales

## European Aeronautics:A Vision for 2020

- Europe prizes global aerospace leadership and  a world-class transport system for 2020
- Approach is supportive public and policy regulation and a rigorous research agenda
- Europe’s preliminary estimate of financing this goal is $100B (not including product R&D) over 20 years from public and private sources
- From the Europe Vision:
- 	“European aeronautics has grown and prospered with support of public funding, and this support must continue if we are to achieve our objective of global leadership”

## Aerospace Technology Components

**Aerospace****Unique**

**Experimental****Prototypes**

**Commercial**

## Aerospace Unique Research

- Integrated systems analysis and simulation (e.g., Air Traffic System analyses)
- Highly reliable, low cost, virtually automated flight management (e.g., apply “UCAV” thinking)
- Efficient structure (e.g., nano-technologies for aerospace, space vehicle fuel tanks, thermal protection for space vehicles, etc.)
- Efficient and environmentally acceptable engines and airplanes
- Safe and reliable rocket propulsion: combined cycle rocket engines

## Aerospace Unique Research (Cont)

- Systems for sensing, controlling, and managing the airplane or space vehicle and its health
- Computing and information technology for knowledge management for research, design, test, flight, and service support of airplanes and space vehicles

***Continue working together among NASA, FAA, and DoD communities on integrated aerospace R&D investment strategy***

## Integration of Commercial Technology

- Apply information technologies to aerospace products, and processes
- Apply communication technologies to aerospace
- Adapt innovation in molecular electronics, micro-electronics, and photonics
- Apply security and protection technologies for the networked aerospace world (ITAR)
- Use commercial components in aerospace by “designing the environment” they would accommodate
- Apply bio-tech molecular computing into Aerospace
- Apply the many computing innovations to aerospace

## Experimental Prototypes(X-Flight)

- Encourage numerous projects that demonstrate new concepts and processes
- Demonstrate new hardware technology
- Provide integration experience
- Practice new processes
- Use new tools and computers
- Give our aerospace engineers experience and skill
- Encourage more joint experimental projects between NASA and DoD
- Evaluate other concepts for solutions to national security needs
- Conduct “alternative vehicle” studies
- Rotorcraft, space vehicles, airplanes, including general aviation

## Alternative Vehicle Concepts

**Alternative Vehicle Concepts**

## Boeing Focus Areas

- 21st Century Aircraft
- Space Launch Initiative
- CNS/ATM

## 21st Century Aircraft

- 21st Century Aircraft technologies (wings, propulsion, and fuselages) will be developed with an integrated approach within a 10-20 year vision
- The goal for the 21st Century Aircraft technologies include improved safety, reliability, environmental compatibility, reduced cost, and vehicle development/production cycle time
- NASA and DoD should provide the long-term investment for aeronautics research and technology that will be applied to 21st century commercial and military aircraft

## Space Launch Initiative

- The goals of the Space Launch Initiative are to improve the safety, reliability, and cost of access to space
- The Space Launch Initiative will develop key technologies to enable 2nd generation, reusable commercial launch vehicles and NASA-unique vehicles
- Propulsion
- Light weight, low cost airframes
- Health management systems
- Long-term investments needed to advance key space technologies

## Air Traffic Management

- Projected air travel threatens to overwhelm an already congested air traffic system demanding a new, system-level approach
- Space-based system integrating accurate navigation and information technologies
- Air traffic control becomes air traffic management
- Technology investments needed in modeling and simulation, architecture studies, and tools

## The Message

- Aerospace technology is a national issue with both security and economic implications
- Major players include government and industry -we must work together
- Aerospace is an important global competitive issue given actions by other countries
- U.S. Government research investments are declining
- U.S. Government must fund long-term research
- Industry focus is product development
- Balanced aerospace technology has multiple components
- Aerospace unique
- Commercial adapted to aerospace
- System-level prototypes

***Audience: Public, Congress, Administration, and Customers***