AATE |
Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine |
AFRL |
Air Force Research Laboratory |
AirSTAR |
Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research |
AMELIA |
Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Acoustics |
ARMD |
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate |
ARTR |
Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable, a committee established by the National Research Council’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board to provide guidance to NASA on aeronautics issues |
ASTOVL |
Advanced Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing |
ATP |
Aeronautics Test Program |
AvSP |
Aviation Safety Program |
BWB |
Blended wing body |
CAEP |
Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection |
CAIV |
Cost as an Independent Variable |
CMC combustion liner |
Ceramic matrix composite combustion liner |
CoCOMs |
Combatant Commands |
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DLR |
German Aerospace Center |
DSTO |
Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization |
Ephemerides |
Position and velocity tables for celestial bodies |
ERA |
Environmentally Responsible Aviation |
ERAST |
Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology |
Full cost recovery | A NASA program that requires all outside NASA customers to pay the full cost of NASA participation in joint programs |
HIFiRE | Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation |
HIWC | High ice water content |
HSCT(1283) | High-Speed Civil Transport |
HSR(1283) | High-Speed Research |
HTV-2 | Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 |
Hypersonic | Hypersonic, or hypersonic speed, is considered to be five times the speed of sound; also known as Mach 5 or greater. |
ISRP | Integrated Systems Research Program |
JSRA | Joint Sponsored Research Agreement |
MAJCOMs | Major Commands |
MUTT | Multi-Utility Technology Testbed |
NACA | National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics |
NAS | National Airspace System |
NAVAIR | Naval Air Systems Command |
NextGen | Next Generation Air Traffic Management System |
NGLT | Next Generation Launch Technology |
NRA | NASA Research Announcement |
PRSEUS | Protruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure |
QSP | Quiet Supersonic Platform |
RevCon | Revolutionary Concepts program, which was created to encourage innovation in flight vehicle design |
SCAR | Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research |
SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
Sonic boom | The sound released by shock waves associated with an aircraft as it travels faster than the speed of sound |
SST | Supersonic Transport |
Supersonic | Supersonic, or supersonic speed, is considered to be greater than the speed of sound; also known as Mach 1 or greater. |
TRL | Technology readiness level |
UAV/UAS | Unpiloted aerial vehicle/uninhabited aerial system |
VAATE | Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine |
X-factor | A quantitative measure of a program’s level of technological difficulty |