The Innovation Stage @ the HUB
Cybersecurity across the aerospace sector greatly benefits from the increased collaboration between government, industry, and hackers that has been kick-started by a grassroots effort to build trust between key stakeholders. Join this presentation to understand the change in attitude seen across government and industry increasing their willingness to engage with security researchers. Learn how a simple idea is growing more engagements with these key stakeholders. You should come away with an appreciation of the value these efforts provide to creating a workforce that is capable of addressing future cybersecurity challenges across the aviation industry.
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Multiphysics-Focused Simulation Technology for Hypersonic R&D
Hear from Hexagon about its multiphysics-focused computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software that has been developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Aerospace to address some of the numerical challenges specific to simulating hypersonic flight – stability, robustness, and coupling to related physics-like structural mechanics and kinematics. Details of the hypersonic flow solver, the co-simulation platform, and the results of their latest validation studies will be reviewed.
Theme: Technologies of the Future
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AIAA AVIATION Forum Veteran and Military Meet and Greet
Are you currently serving in the military or a veteran? Connect with your fellow service members at the AIAA AVIATION Forum Welcome Happy Hour. Look for the specially designated area for Veterans and Military in the HUB. Everyone is warmly invited!
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Advancements in Thermoplastics for Aerospace Structures
Join this discussion, led by Spirit Aerosystems, on new developments that are bringing thermoplastics to the aerospace marketplace.
Theme: Technologies of the Future
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Student Talk: FIRE Rockets, It’s Where Dreams Launch!
Hear directly from students involved in the FIRE Rocket program. This exciting STEM experience involves middle and high school students in model rocketry and introduces them to aerospace principles and career options.
Theme: Workforce Connections
Welcome to the HUB!
Join leaders from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) — the sponsor of the HUB — as they welcome attendees to the Exposition Hall and share their excitement around the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum.
Theme: Stories That Inspire
Sonic Boom and the X-59
Speakers
John M. Morgenstern
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Sriram K. Rallabhandi
NASA Langley Research Center
Description
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to manufacture the X-59, a NASA experimental demonstrator aircraft designed to mitigate the adverse impact of sonic boom through advanced aircraft shaping methodologies. Initial flights and envelope expansion of the X-59 is expected to begin within the next couple of years, followed by community tests at multiple locations. This discussion highlights the vision for commercial supersonic flight, sonic boom assessments of the X-59 and details of the low-boom flight demonstration mission.
NASA’S BIG (Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing) Idea Challenge
Hear about the AIAA Caltech Student Chapter’s success story after being twice selected a finalist for the NASA BIG Idea Challenge. Their 2021 project, HOMES EDS (Electrodynamic Dust Shielding), was also the winner of the AIAA Region VI Student Conference in 2021 and the AIAA International Student Conference held at the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum. They will share their 2022 project, Lunar Architecture for Tree Traversal In-service-of Cabled Exploration (LATTICE), which was also the winner of the AIAA Region VI Student Conference in 2022 and won the Most Visionary Concept Award at the 2022 NASA BIG Idea Challenge Forum.
Theme: Workforce Connections
NASA Sustainable Flight National Partnership Project Managers Panel
The NASA Sustainable Flight National Partnership (SFNP) mission is to accelerate toward net-zero carbon emissions for our next-generation subsonic transports by 2050. Project managers supporting the SFNP mission will introduce their projects and provide insight as to how they became a NASA project manager, including sharing some of their technical and leadership challenges and opportunities.
SUAS/ALE Aerial Recovery
SUAS/ALEs have become valuable military assets but have limitations on their endurance and range. Further, most currently are recovered via belly or skid landing, which is not possible for operations over blue water. Even when recovering on land, the ALE’s airframes and payloads are jeopardized. To remain affordable, they must utilize inexpensive sensors with limited performance. ALE Aerial Recovery will be a game changer: ALEs can be recovered over blue water and no longer will airframes and payloads be jeopardized. ALEs will be able to carry high performance sensors that will dramatically improve the ALE’s effectiveness. This presentation will show GA-ASI’s concept for SUAS/ALE aerial recovery, the mission cost benefit of SUAS/ALE aerial recovery, and our technical roadmap.
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