摘要: |
On December 20, 2006, Executive Order 13419, National Aeronautics Research and Development, established the nation's first policy to guide Federal aeronautics R&D through 2020. Executive Order 13419 was supported by an accompanying Policy, the National Aeronautics R&D Policy, which provided further guidance for such an R&D plan. The Policy called for an R&D plan comprising national research priorities and objectives, roadmaps to achieve the identified objectives, and timelines. In addition, the Policy called for an infrastructure plan for managing critical Federal research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) assets and stated that the infrastructure plan should identify which assets are considered critical from a national perspective and define an approach for constructing, maintaining, modifying, or terminating these assets based on the needs of the broad user community. This National Plan for Aeronautics Research and Development and Related Infrastructure, which will be reviewed on a biennial basis, answers the Executive Order and Policy by providing the nation's first integrated plan that the Federal aeronautics R&D enterprise should pursue for both R&D and related infrastructure. In addition, the Plan lays out further implementation actions that will meet the full intent of the Policy. The National Aeronautics R&D Policy laid out seven key Principles to guide the conduct of the nation's aeronautics R&D activities through 2020. For each Principle addressed in this Plan, a description of the state of the art of related technologies and systems is provided. A set of fundamental challenges and associated high-priority R&D goals that seek to address these challenges follows. To give additional clarity and definition, the Plan provides supporting objectives for each goal. These goals and objectives are not intended to endorse specific technologies or assign priorities to research areas within those Principles. |