A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs (2006) / Chapter Skim
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But flatness is not indicative of the true picture, particularly in 6.2 budgets, which can cover laboratory payroll and administration costs as well as additional internal taxes, items that have increased significantly and squeezed funds available for real S&T.
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DoD futureforce planning is immature and the S&T planning pro cess is insufficient to identify short, medium, and longterm propulsion requirements to provide the warfighting capabilities needed for the late 2010s. The DoD Defense Science and Technology Reliance program does not address propulsion in a coherent manner; rather, propulsion efforts are subsets of other specialty areas.
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pro gram to the original planned level. VAATE should address the primary risk areas necessary to advance jet engine technology, which include a robust engine demonstrator program and key producibility challenges.
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In addition to developing two new small gas turbines, DoD should carefully investigate innovative ways to integrate advanced engines and advanced vehicle propulsion systems. Examples here include novel inlets, exhausts, IR suppression systems, particle separators, integrated flight/engine controls, and systems to manage component health.
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The Air Force should place a high priority on developing an integrated total system engineering process using quantita tive lifecycle mission success as the selection criterion for nearterm, highly leveraged engineering technology funded by the Air Force. This process is crucial to defining justifiable total system architectures, rocket propulsion systems requirements, and critical technologies for military space trans portation to support the Air Force Space Command's StrategicmasterPlan Fy06andBeyond.
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DoD and the Air Force should fund a program to explore various approaches to creating storable oxidizers that would significantly enhance rocket performance with different storable fuels. This program should utilize a consortium of academic, industry, and govern ment laboratories to pursue highly innovative concepts for achieving this breakthrough.
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The Air Force should initiate a 5 to 7year com prehensive program of fundamental fuels research. The goal of this program should be to study properties of smart fuel additives; surrogate fuels; syn thetic fuel process technologies; synthetic fuels produced from feedstocks such as coal, oil shale, and biomass; and syntheticconventional fuel blends.
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Engine test capabilities at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (OCALC) should allow for engineering changes of exist ing hardware to be accomplished by the cognizant engineering authorities and, after configuration control board approval, for demonstrating the approved technologyenhanced hardware or accessory on the government test stand at OCALC.
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should undertake a focused effort on cataloging and making accessible the findings of past technology programs, perhaps even combin ing the VAATE, the Integrated HighPayoff Rocket Propulsion Technology, and the Integrated HighPerformance Turbine Engine Technology data bases at the lower taxonomy levels to enhance technology crossfertilization. DDR&E should also establish a feedback process and facilitate a cross cutting flow of S&T during the development, acquisition, and sustainment phases.
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0 AREVIEWOFAEROSPACEPROPULSIONNEEDS TABLE ES1 Prioritization of Recommendations Near Terma Medium Termb Far Termc 21 (H)
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