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Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
(http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov)
• Fundamental Aeronautics
Program (FAP)
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Hypersonics
Supersonics
Subsonics: fixed wing
Subsonics: rotary wing
• Aeronautics Test Program
– corporate management of aeronautical
facilities
• Aviation Safety Program
– to improve the inherent safety
attributes of new and legacy
vehicles
– overcome aircraft safety
technological barriers that would
otherwise constrain the full
realization of the NGATS
• Airspace Systems
Program
– address the Air Traffic Management
R&D needs of the Next Generation Air
Transportation System (NGATS)
Programs without softwareintensive system research elements
Where most of the softwareintensive system safety research
resides
Aviation Safety Program
Director: Herb Schlickenmaier
Aircraft Aging
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Durability
(AAD)
Integrated
Intelligent
Flight Deck
(IIFD)
Integrated
Vehicle Health
Management
(IVHM)
Integrated
Resilient
Aircraft Control
(IRAC)
PI - Dr. Rick Young
PI - Dr. Steve Young
PI - Dr. Celeste Belcastro
PI - Dr. Christine Belcastro
PM - Doug Rohn
PM - Leighton Quon
PM - Cheryl Allen
PM - Joseph Totah
Principle Investigator (PI)
Program Manager (PM)
Research in Software-Intensive Systems
Assurance and Certification Technologies
Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics
• Survey conducted by the National Research Council's
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board to prioritize
aeronautics research projects for the next 10 years
• Identified and ranked 89 research & technology challenges in
relation to their potential to:
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increase capacity, improve safety & reliability, increase efficiency & performance, reduce energy
consumption & environmental impact
• Selected 51 high-priority challenges in 5 categories
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aerodynamics & acoustics
propulsion & power
materials & structures
dynamics, navigation, control and avionics
intelligent and autonomous systems, operations & decision making, human integrated
systems, and networking & communications
Certification recognized as a barrier
• Even if individual research challenges are
successfully overcome, two key barriers must
also be addressed:
1) Certification: Core research is to needed to develop methods for
assessing the safety and reliability of complex, software intensive
systems. This is essential for NASA,
→ because this is beyond the current resources of regulators
2) Change Management, Internal & External
→ managing change from the introduction of new technologies and
operational concepts
Recommendation #4: NASA should support
fundamental research to create the foundations for
practical certification standards for new technologies