History
The History Committee fosters the preservation, documentation, and reporting of the history of aeronautical, astronautical, and hydronautical arts, sciences, and engineering, and their impact on society. It promotes aerospace history to both the public and industry, including the fostering of the preservation and documentation of the history of aerospace.
Management
The Management Committee seeks to understand issues and develop solutions to management problems specific to the aerospace and defense community. It seeks to encourage and promote improved management methods and practices. It works to identify useful and relevant products, services, and information from the associated industrial, academic, and government organizations represented within AIAA. It provides a meaningful environment for individual and corporate growth, and a forum for committee members to exchange knowledge in the field of management through networking and sharing of personal and corporate experiences.
Society and Aerospace Technology
The AIAA Society and Aerospace Technology Committee (SATC) promotes the transfer of aerospace technology and techniques to help solve critical problems in society and improve the general quality of life. The SATC focuses on how aerospace technology and techniques help solve critical societal challenges and improve quality of life, and, understanding interactions between the aerospace enterprise and broader social and cultural trends. The SATOC brings together distinguished AIAA members whose professions, studies, and interests include enhancing the interaction between the aerospace industry and society.
Airborne Directed Energy Systems
The Airborne Directed Energy Systems Committee (ADESC) is the AIAA focal point for all civilian and military uses of Directed Energy Systems. The committee will coordinate AIAA Directed Energy programs with other organizations such as the Directed Energy Professional Society; Co-sponsor relevant conferences and events; Provide participants to AIAA public policy initiatives such as the annual Congressional Visits Day; and assist in resolution of national issues impeding Directed Energy Systems development, employment and maturation.
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Committee (UAPC) seeks to improve aviation safety by enhancing scientific knowledge of, and mitigating barriers to, the study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
CFD Vision 2030
The CFD Vision 2030 Committee was established to promote a community of practice engaged in developing methods, models, physical experiments, software, and hardware for revolutionary advances in computational simulation technologies for analysis, design, certification, and qualification of aerospace systems. CFD Vision 2030 serves as the focal point for activities to achieve the 2030 Vision by leveraging and integrating enabling technologies such as high-performance computing, physical modeling, numerical methods, geometry/grids, validation quality experiments, multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, with quantified uncertainties. CFD Vision 2030 will communicate with other Committees to assure that the AIAA membership engages with their peers and external constituencies in shaping the future of simulation-based engineering.
Digital Engineering
Digital Engineering Committee (DEC) will strive to accelerate integration of new and existing ‘digital’ capabilities for improving US national competitiveness, security, and operational readiness. Digital Engineering Integration will establish an Aerospace Forum for integrating currently disparate ‘digital’ activities (e.g., Digital Twin, Digital Thread, ICME, BIGDATA, etc). Digital Engineering Integration will support constituent groups (inside and outside AIAA) in the development and creation of a technical programs related to Digital Engineering.
Aerospace Traffic Management
The Aerospace Traffic Management Committee (ATMC) monitors, evaluates, and seeks to influence the direction of ATM technologies with a focus on ATM system efficiency, public safety, and national security.
Aviation in Multimodal Transportation
The Aviation in Multimodal Transportation Committee (AMTC) engages the community and fosters the development of methodologies and technologies that integrate aviation effectively and seamlessly with other modes of transportation, enabling an ecosystem in which passengers and freight can transfer safely and efficiently among car, train, ferry, air taxi, and other modes with integrated end-to-end solutions.
High-Speed Flight
The High Speed Flight (HSF) Committee’s purpose is to advocate, influence and motivate activities that enable revolutionary advances in the state-of-the-art for technologies needed in the design, manufacture, test, certification, operation, and airspace integration of high-speed flight. These systems are defined as being capable of sustained flight at speeds greater than Mach 1. The committee advocates for technology advances across a variety of challenge areas currently limiting the routine operation of these systems. The committee will engage students and professionals who are enthusiastic about high-speed flight, and will bridge relevant Technical Committees within AIAA and communities outside of AIAA to ensure that enabling technologies for high speed flight systems are identified and developed.
Transformational Flight
The Transformational Flight Integration and Outreach Committee (TFIOC) promotes a community engaged in technical, business, and societal issues associated with transformational approaches to mobility and transportation on Earth and extraterrestrial atmospheres through emerging flight technologies and missions. The TFIOC serves as the focal point for the creation of new aerospace capabilities to investigate whole new modes of transportation, their associated vehicles and powertrains, their supporting ground and energy infrastructure, their integration within the airspace, and their integration in multi-modal and intelligent transportation systems. The TFIOC will communicate with other technical committees to ensure that the AIAA membership, and non-AIAA members alike, collaborate together to shape the future of transformational aerospace systems.
Uncrewed and Autonomous Systems Integration Committee (UASIC)
The Uncrewed and Autonomous Systems Integration Committee (UASIC) represents and serves the broad interests of the uncrewed, autonomous, and intelligent robotic systems community within aerospace. This includes systems with these attributes functioning in aviation and space environments, along with their components and wide-ranging applications such as, for example, uncrewed air vehicles (UAVs), urban/advanced air mobility (UAM/AAM) systems, and robotic space systems. The Committee’s scope of interest covers the entire life cycle, encompassing technology development and integration, system conceptualization, platform & system design and development, manufacturing, integration, testing, and evaluation, as well as policy and regulatory issues. This includes functions necessary for the deployment, operation, and sustainment of these systems and their related components, as well as their use in both military and civilian applications. The Committee promotes, sponsors, conducts, and supports activities that foster the development, evolution, and integration of these systems and their capabilities and addresses issues that affect and impact them. While the Committee’s primary focus is to advance the uncrewed and autonomous aerospace systems technical agenda through technical activities and publications, it also concentrates on issues and opportunities in relevant programmatic, educational, intersociety, and public outreach sectors, as well as adjacent, related technical communities involved with similar challenges such as uncrewed ground (UGV), surface water (USV), underwater (UUV) vehicles, and other autonomous systems. Related domains in the domestic and international environments, within and beyond the AIAA are also of interest to the UASIC. The UASIC regularly interacts with other AIAA committees and organizations to further its objectives.
Space Exploration
The AIAA Space Exploration Integration Committee (SEIC) promotes awareness and advancement of and collaboration on topics relevant to human and robotic space exploration such as launch vehicles, space technology, mission architecture and concepts, human space flight systems, in-space infrastructure, robotic missions, space policy, International Space Station (ISS) utilization, and international and commercial partnerships in space exploration and utilization.
Space Systems
Foster the development, application, and operation of general space systems, and address and provide informed positions on emerging space system issues.
