Event Tag: webinar

AVIATIONx Webinar: Automation and Autonomy in General Aviation: Opportunities and Challenges for Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability

This webinar is co-organized by PEGASAS and the AIAA Intelligent Systems and General Aviation Technical Committees.

This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.

Focus: How introducing more automation and/or autonomy for general aviation could increase safety, accessibility and sustainability.

Reducing pilot workload
Preventing loss of control in flight
Lowering training requirements and proficiency training
What needs to be addressed to make this happen?
Discussion of current examples
Challenges that prevent this from being certified and adopted

Hypersonics Challenges (Member Exclusive Webinar)

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Olivier Chazot, professor and head of the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI).

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site with your member credentials to be able to access the replay.

This webinar is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

Hypersonics offers many advantages for aerospace applications in civil transport, space access, vehicle reusability, or strategic defense. However, a hypersonic regime is extremely demanding for vehicle design and those solutions need to be developed over the severe flight conditions it imposes. Aerothermodynamic phenomena at hypervelocity need to be better understood as they have a significant impact on the hypersonic vehicle design. This is especially true for their optimization, which is hardly addressed since such development is conducted with a conservative, or, more frequently, overconservative approach. While a number of active research programs are still dedicated to those investigations, this prevents us from benefiting from the full potential of hypersonic flight.

To reveal these challenges the presentation will give an overview of hypersonic flows and how they affect aerospace missions. The articulation of testing methodologies in high enthalpy and plasma facilities with high fidelity CFD tools for the study of critical aerothermodynamic phenomena in very high-speed flows will be discussed. Finally, the development from ground testing research to real-flight situation for the design of hypersonic systems and aerospace applications will be presented.

AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series: Taking Advanced Computing to the Tactical Edge

This AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series webinar is hosted by AIAA and presented by Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin is assembling an outstanding panel of industry and academic leaders to discuss taking edge computing technologies and capabilities to the tactical edge. Edge computing is a distributed computing topology where information processing is located close to the source of the information, bringing computation and data storage closer to the edge which is typically not done today. There are many commercial applications of edge computing and it is anticipated that there are a number of benefits to the defense battlespace. This webinar will seek to address what edge computing is – as it relates to defense applications, the defense capabilities that are enabled with edge computing, challenges and solutions associated with implementation, as well as defense-specific needs to successfully implement advanced computing capabilities at the tactical edge.

Supporting Hypersonic Flight Through UCAH and Research (Member Exclusive Webinar)

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Rodney D. W. Bowersox, Associate Dean for Research and Ford Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, TEES Executive Director, OUSD JHTO University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics

AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site with your member credentials to be able to register for the webinar.

This webinar is brought to you by the HyTASP Technical Committee and is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

Join Dr. Rodney Bowersox as he presents an overview of the OUSD Joint Hypersonics Transition Office sponsored University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH). UCAH is envisioned as a collaborative inclusive network of universities, government, industry, and national laboratories collaborating to deliver time-sensitive applied hypersonic research and prototype solutions to the DOD. The consortium membership includes 80 universities, 76 industries, and 8 national labs, FFRDCs and UARCs. A description of the organization structure and engagement opportunities is provided.

Additionally, Bowersox will present an overview of the hypersonic turbulent aerothermochemistry research at Texas A&M University. The focus of the research is to extend modeling to include mechanical, thermal, and chemical non-equilibrium effects. Three examples are discussed: (1) 2-D Mach 5 flow with pressure gradients, (2) 2-D Mach 6 flow with thermal non-equilibrium plasma, and (3) the BOLT II Flight Test in Memory of Mike Holden, which will produce a 3-D Mach 6 boundary layer with pressure gradients, non-iso-thermal walls, and a complex transition process.

AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series: Space Sustainability – Advancing the Benefits to Earth and Orbit

This AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series webinar is hosted by AIAA and presented by Lockheed Martin.

AIAA and Lockheed Martin have assembled a stellar panel to bring you up to speed on space sustainability. This rapidly evolving topic encompasses sustainability efforts on Earth facilitated from space, actions to mitigate orbital debris, and continued safe human access to space. Learn how the latest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues from climate change to human rights relate to space-based systems and join in the discussion on what is being done to support space sustainability.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

AVIATIONxWebinar: General Aviation Post Pandemic – An Opportunity to Provide Alternative Air Transportation

This webinar is hosted by AIAA, in collaboration with PEGASAS.

Due to COVID-19, general aviation has the potential to emerge as a more frequently utilized transportation option, offering the ability to avoid traveling in high-capacity commercial aircraft and providing frequency of service or routes that are no longer available commercially. This gives general aviation an opportunity to leverage interest in technology developments for urban and regional air mobility. Join us as we explore what needs to be addressed to make this happen.

This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.

AIAA Webinar: A Brief History of Modern Hypersonics, Or How Did We Get Here?

Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Mark J. Lewis, AIAA Past President and Executive Director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI)

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This event is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?

The development of hypersonic systems is one of the Department of Defense’s top technology modernization priorities, with multiple programs across each of the military services and defense science agencies aimed at delivering practical high-speed systems at scale. Even at the basic research level, the United States has ramped up its efforts in hypersonic flight, engaging directly with universities on an unprecedented scale. Yet, just a few years ago, hypersonics was viewed by many in the defense leadership as a distant capability, with promises that often exceeded delivered performance; programs in the past tended to start and stop with a frustratingly cyclical regularity, negatively impacting industrial capacity and workforce preparation. Now the United States seems to be on a steady consistent course to develop and produce a range of hypersonic systems.

This talk will review developments in recent years that have taken hypersonics from the fringes of defense science and technology to front and center of the mainstream defense research and engineering. This presentation also will review some the key technical and programmatic developments that have led to the current status, including both successes and failures, as well as address the underlying question of why this time it’s different.

AIAA Corporate Member Connect: The New Normal of Aerospace Cybersecurity Compliance

Cybersecurity is in the headlines almost daily. The aerospace and defense industry is already taking big steps to improve the safety and security of IT systems, like the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program — CMMC. CMMC is a Department of Defense initiative that takes a continuous, structural approach to cybersecurity. Soon, it will be a feature of all Federal procurements. Agencies like NASA and FAA are already evaluating for solicitations and are not limited to traditional IT.

AIAA Corporate Members can learn more about CMMC at the AIAA Corporate Member Connect event on Thursday, 21 October. Find out more about how CMMC will impact aerospace projects from CMMC Expert and Registered Practitioner, Carter Schoenberg of SoundWay Consulting.

Audience takeaways:

The current status of the CMMC program, and what’s next for its implementation
What is unique about aerospace and military space markets
What your project or company can do now to prepare for CMMC
How CMMC will help your company, your products, and your customers—even if the US government is not your primary customer

This webinar is an exclusive corporate member event. If your employer has an AIAA corporate membership and you would like to attend this event, please send an email to Nancy Hilliard.

AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series: Digital Twin Value—Driving The Entire Product Life Cycle

Lockheed Martin Digital Twin Maturity Model
Lockheed Martin Digital Twin Overview

This AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series webinar is hosted by AIAA and presented by Lockheed Martin.

Digital Twins have captured our collective imagination for years, representing the ultimate tool for understanding and optimizing design, manufacturing, and sustainment of complex systems. But how can it bring value to the Aerospace and Defense industry? Join us online as AIAA and Lockheed Martin bring together a panel of experts to explore this topic and talk though the value of this complex technology. In an unclassified 60-minute webinar, learn more about the capability and how – through interoperability and applying digital twin technology across the product life cycle – we can visualize our industry and the world like never before. :

Discussion from industry, government and academia around cutting-edge successes and industry-wide challenges with digital twin
Integration of digital engineering, complete digital thread and digital twins to complement all stages of the product life cycle – for both new and legacy programs
Importance of digital twin interoperability across organizations – Partnership with the customer and supply chain to transform how we acquire, develop and maintain products faster – and more effectively – than ever before
Evolution of the Lockheed Martin Digital Twin Maturity Model and what that means for early concept models through sustainment

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

AIAA Webinar: Sustainability in Flight – The Government’s Role in Achieving Decarbonization

This webinar is hosted by AIAA, in collaboration with the
Aero Club of Washington and sponsored by Pratt & Whitney.

Leaders in aviation will share perspectives on the industry’s commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. The expert panel will discuss efforts underway and the significant cooperation, innovation, and education required among all industry stakeholders to deliver on this important goal. This timely discussion will outline the major focus areas and necessary advancements in the sector for the next five years and the long-term roadmap necessary to achieve this goal. Learn about the newest R&D technologies, key barriers to progress, and how the next generation of aerospace engineers can be part of achieving our low-carbon future. Explore how aviation executives and policy makers can work together now to be on the leading edge of such cooperation, setting the course for continued industry leadership in the new era of aviation sustainability.

This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.