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Ron Sega
Director of Defense Research and Engineering
1961
1918 1969
1962
Lewis and Clark
1803
Pioneering Aviation
Robert Goddard
Father of American Rocketry
1926
Pioneering Space
Perspective: Merging Air and Space
National Aerospace Initiative (NAI)
The NAI is a partnership between the
Department of Defense and NASA designed
to sustain our aerospace leadership through
technology development and demonstrations
in three critical aerospace areas:
♦ High Speed/Hypersonics
Speed/Hypersonics
Flight demonstrate increasing Mach
number per year reaching Mach 12 by
2012
♦ Space Access
Demonstrate technologies to
dramatically increase space access
and reliability while decreasing cost
♦ Space Technology
Leverage the full potential of space
National Aerospace Initiative
Sustaining American Aerospace Leadership
•• Strategic
Strategic Focus
NAI •• Technical
Focus
Technical Coordination
Coordination
•• Aerospace
Aerospace Workforce
Workforce
4<Mach<15
4<Mach<15 Air -Breathing
Air-Breathing Space
Space ISR
ISR
11stst Stage
Stage (TSTO)
(TSTO) Maneuvering
Maneuvering
Long-Range [Mach
[Mach 00 -- 12]
12] Vehicle
Vehicle
Long-Range Strike
Strike Space
Space Control
Control
[Mach
[Mach 0-7]
0-7]
Synergy
Synergy Goal:
Goal: 11 ++ 11 ++ 11 >> 33
National Aerospace Initiative
Sustaining American Aerospace Leadership
Mach Number per Year to 2012
25
Production
Hydrogen
Hydrogen Scramjet
Scramjet
X-Vehicles Mach
Mach 8-15
8-15
15
NAI
Mach Number
Hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon Scramjet
Scramjet Space Access
Mach
Mach 4-7
4-7
10 Ramjet
Ramjet
Mach
Mach 3-4
3-4
Strike Aircraft
X-15
High
High Speed
Speed Turbine
Turbine
5 SR-71 Mach 2-4
Mach 2-4
XB-70 Concorde
Missiles
F-117 F-22
F-4 F-15 F-16 B-2
0
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
NAI
NAI
Hypersonic Component
Technology Development and Hypersonic System Technology
Ground Demonstrations Development and
Flight Demonstrations
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Development Approach
High Speed/Hypersonics
Expendable Re-Usable
Flight Regimes
Mach 0-7 Mach 0-
Mach<4 Mach 4- 12
15
Building Block Building Block
3 Demonstrations
Technologies Technologies
Thermal
Rocket
Boost 4 Protection Protection
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Mach 7 Mach 10
1 1 Hyper X (NASA) Flight Demo
The Future:
Education
Inspiration
Innovation
Exploration
National Aerospace Initiative
Sustaining American Aerospace Leadership
1903
….and Beyond
1926
National Aerospace Initiative
Sustaining American Aerospace Leadership