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1 The National Aerospace Initiative
1 The National Aerospace Initiative
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. Common technologies that both agencies need to accomplish their respective mission objectives include long-life rocket engines; combined-cycle propulsion; ram/scramjets; long-life, lightweight airframes and tanks; durable thermal protection systems; all-electric subsystems; and rapid-turnaround ground and flight operations (Rogacki, 2003)
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Synergy Goal: 1 + 1 + 1 > 3 Space Control FIGURE 1-1 National Aerospace Initiative technology framework. ISR, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
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· Guidance to program direction Revolutionary Concepts Panels High-Speed/ Space Access Space · Convened as necessary Hypersonics Technology · Report to Executive Director and Lead: AF Lead: NASA Lead: NRO/AF pillar leads as appropriate Deputy: NASA Deputy: AF Deputy: DARPA · Seek revolutionary approaches and solutions to topical/critical technical issues Army Liaison Navy Liaison DARPA Liaison FIGURE 1-2 NAI executive office (draft)
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RELEVANCE TO OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS The committee believes that any assessment of the operational relevance of the technologies and capabilities resulting from NAI must be based on their ability to contribute to the accomplishment of the operational needs of NASA and the military services. Those needs are best articulated by the organizations themselves and are contained in the military services' operational requirements documents (ORDs)
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· To guide planning, programming, and requirements reform. The six CONOPS developed in support of these objectives include Global Strike, Homeland Security, Global Mobility, Global Response, Nuclear Response, and Space and C4ISR (see Figure 1-4)
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A significant portion of AFRL's turbine engine technology base, for example, is focused on high-speed applications that respond directly to Air Force CONOPS-derived capability needs. Similarly, technologies derived from AFRL's Long Range Strike planning activity, with their explicit linkage to the Global Strike and Global Response CONOPS, support the development of a Mach 4+ weapon and a sustained supersonics-capable air platform, both of which are responsive to NAI's high speed/hypersonics pillar.
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believes that NAI could contribute to key components of the command's global mission of Global Strike, Global Integrated Missile Defense, Underground Facility Defeat, Mobile Missile Defeat, Global Nuclear Deterrence, Global C4ISR, and Space Operations (Shelton, 2003)
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USSTRATCOM believes that if the technology matures, hypersonic, air-breathing, two-stage-to-orbit capability could provide aircraftlike operations, responsive launch, and flexible launch/recovery, all at lower cost and with minimal facilities and crews. The major technical challenges that USSTRATCOM believes NAI must overcome to facilitate these contributions include "high strength, lightweight structures; advanced thermal protection systems; rocket and air-breathing propulsion; and vehicle health monitoring systems" (Winchell, 2003, p.
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, the operational relevance of NAI is much more closely tied to the high speed/hypersonics pillar. ACC believes that high speed/hypersonics is a revolutionary capability that supports numerous CONOPS, including Global Strike, Global Persistent Attack, and, potentially, Homeland Security (Tom, 2003)
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PRD NP01 defines the program-controlled requirements for the technology and systems engineering and integration projects and offices as a whole, as well as the requirements for each individual project and office under the NGLT Program: The objectives of NASA's NGLT Program are to identify systems to meet the national space access mission requirements and to develop technology required for national space access mission require ments. The NGLT Program is designed to advance the state-of-the-art in space transportation sys tems (STSs)
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When the objectives of NASA's NGLT Program are compared with the objectives of the National Aerospace Initiative, the commonality of interests and goals is clear. NAI and the Interrelationship of NASA and DoD Technology Requirements Table 1-2 shows the relationship between NASA NGLT and DoD technologies and their relevance to the NAI pillars, reusable launch vehicles (RLVs)
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X Hypersonics demo follow-on X Scramjet demos X Ops demonstrator X ORS CAV NOTE: HTHL, horizontal takeoff/horizontal landing; OSP, orbital space plane; EELV, evolved, expendable launch vehicle; ATS, automatic test system; RP, rocket propellant; IVHM, inte grated vehicle health management; RBCC, rocket-based combined cycle; SSC, Stennis Space (including logistics) and launch reliability (for crew safety and long life for reusable boost stages)
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Finding 1-2. Incomplete data limit the ability to obtain a clear, comprehensive picture of NAI funding, both by those who would assess the initiative's financial feasibility in a specified time frame and by NAI's participants.
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Recommendation 1-2. The NAI executive office should develop and communicate clear, comprehensive NAI funding data that show all the ongoing, planned, and newly proposed NAI projects of DoD and NASA depicted on NAI roadmaps and tied directly to objectives.
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2003a. National Aerospace Initiative: Sustaining American Aerospace Leadership.
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