ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

ADVENT Advanced Versatile Engine Technology

AF Air Force

AFB Air Force Base

AFMC Air Force Materiel Command

AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory

AFRL/RX Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate

AFSB Air Force Studies Board

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ATD advanced technology demonstration

ATEGG Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator

BAA broad agency announcement

BIAM Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials

CA collaborative agreement

CAESAR Core and Engine Structural Assessment Research

CBRNE chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives

CFD computational fluid dynamics

CMC ceramic-matrix composite

CMS computational materials science

CONUS continental United States

COSMAT Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering

C2I command, control, and intelligence

C4ISR command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DDR&E Director, Defense Research and Engineering

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DS directional solidification

EAR Export Administration Regulations

EPM Enabling Propulsion Materials program

ESASP European Space Agency Special Publication

ESPR Engineering Research Association for Supersonic Transport Propulsion System

EU European Union

EuMaT European Technology Platform on Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies

FETT first engine to test

FlowPAC [University of Notre Dame’s] Institute of Flow Physics and Control

FLTC Focused Long Term Challenge

GE General Electric

GEnx GE next generation

GPR government property right

GRC [GE’s] Global Research Center

HEETE Highly Efficient Embedded Turbine Engine

HFIR high flux isotope reactor

HHS Department of Health and Human Services

HIP hot isostatic pressing

HPC high-pressure compressor

HPT high-pressure turbine

HSCT High Speed Civil Transport

HTAM High Temperature Aerospace Materials

HTML High Temperature Materials Laboratory

ICME Integrated Computational Materials Engineering

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IHPRPT Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology

IHPTET Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology

IMWG IHPRPT Materials Working Group

IP intellectual property

IPD integrated product development

IPDT integrated product development team

IR&D industry research and development

IRAD independent research and development

ISI Institute for Scientific Information

ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JPO Joint Program Office

JSF Joint Strike Fighter

JTDE Joint Technology Demonstrator

JTO Joint Technology Office

LCF low cycle fatigue

LPC low-pressure compressor

LPT low-pressure turbine

LRE liquid rocket engine

M&P materials and processes

MASAP Materials and Structures Augmentation Program

MDO multidisciplinary optimization

MEANS Materials Engineering for Affordable New Systems

MRL Materials Research Laboratory; manufacturing readiness level

MSE materials science and engineering

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASIC National Air and Space Intelligence Center

NASP National Aerospace Plane

NDA nondisclosure agreement

NDE nondestructive evaluation

NMAB National Materials Advisory Board

NRC National Research Council

NSDD National Security Decision Directive

NSF National Science Foundation

OEM original equipment manufacturer

ONR Office of Naval Research

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense

PA patent

PCC Precision Castparts Corporation

PM powder metallurgy

PPB powder-particle boundaries

QC quality control

R&D research and development

S&T science and technology

SEMATECH Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology

SOA Service-oriented architecture

SRM solid rocket motor

STOVL short take-off and vertical landing

TBC thermal barrier coating

TRL technology readiness level

UAV unmanned aerial vehicle

USAF United States Air Force

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

USML United States Munitions List

VAATE Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engine

VAR vacuum arc re-melting

VIAM All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials

VIM vacuum induction melted

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