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1 Introduction
Pages 9-12

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... Air Force Studies Board (AFSB) concluded that airplane propulsion systems designed to approach Mach 5 would require the development of materials technology solutions that are as yet unavailable.1 A related 2006 AFSB report, Future Air Force Needs for Survivability, describes challenges to improving propulsion and signature, or stealth, that are materials-intensive and must be addressed if the Air Force, and the other services by extension, are to move ahead toward the development of high-Mach manned or unmanned air vehicles.2 The NRC's 2006 Aerospace Propulsion Needs report concluded that "additional emphasis must be placed on propulsion research or the technological lead of the United States will almost certainly cease to exist."3 It also concluded that the way forward for the materials technology development base is still not fully defined 1 National Research Council.
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... The DOD introduced this approach several years ago as the planning approach to be used for justifying military needs, but at the present time this planning approach is not sufficiently mature to have identified stated needs. However, the 2006 NRC study referred to above -- A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs -- identified global strike, global mobility, airborne C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance)
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... ; (b) findings and recommendations in the recent NRC report entitled A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs issued in 2006; (c)
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... The committee received presentations from the sponsor and government research agencies, key industry participants in the propulsion and materials science domains, and academics from the materials science and metallurgy fields, as well as from General Kenneth Eickmann, chair of the 2006 NRC study A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs. In addition, the committee was given access to a document titled Materials for Advanced Aerospace Propulsion and Power Systems (AFRL-RZ-WP-TM-2008-2171)
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