active, closed-loop engine control with real-time, detailed diagnostics

actively controlled combustor pattern factor

advanced combustor cases

advanced membrane technology

advanced propulsion systems

advanced propulsion systems for rotorcraft

aircraft turbine core engines with oxygen-enriched airstream

aircraft turbine engine with thrust modulation and/or vectoring

alternate fuels and propulsion systems

alternative propulsion for small airplanes

aspirated compressors

condition-based monitoring/maintenance

cooled cooling air

electrically powered aircraft wheels

fine spray grid fuel-air injection

fuel reforming/fuel cells

integral heat exchanger

integrated combustor front-end design

intelligent gas turbine engines

large turndown ratio combustors

low cost turbines for general aviation and helicopters

low or no emission engines

nacelle boundary layer suction

nonmetallic aircraft turbine engines

revolutionary combustors

trapped vortex pilot zone

turbo-electric hybrid powered aircraft

turbogenerators

elimination of airframe wave drag through wave cancellation

maintaining laminar flow on airframes by means of surface cooling

minimum-wake wing

technology to extract the rotary energy of wingtip vortices

"electraircraft" x-plane

"green" aircraft configurations and operations

air vehicles optimized for reduced operating costs

blended-wing body (BWB)

high speed civil transports

mid-wing twin fuselage

O-plane

practical, affordable flying automobile

strut-braced wing

unconventional aircraft

unpiloted air vehicles

V/STOL aircraft to enhance capacity

variable diameter tilt-rotors

vertical flight for commercial applications

vertical flight for personal transportation

very large cargo aircraft

Z plane

aircraft mounted remote weather sensors

control systems

data fusion/estimation

low-cost ice protection systems and ice avoidance capability

noise reduction technology

photonics-based sensors

"smart systems" applications

advanced materials

aluminum/aluminum diboride metal matrix composites

carbon nanofibers with an ultra high capacity to absorb/adsorb hydrogen gas at ambient temperatures and modest pressures

carbon/carbon/boron nitride composites

laminated structures technology

materials and materials processing

MEMS in-situ cooling of hot section sensors

micro electromechanical systems (MEMS)

miniaturization, smart structures, and health-monitoring

multichip module laminates

nanoporous composite fiber activated carbon assemblies

new alloys

recyclable copolyester thermosets

reinforced composites for propulsion systems

shaped/smart materials

superconducting electronic materials

very low-cost composites

wing sealants

automated assembly

fabrication by light

integrated design

lean manufacturing for gas turbine engines

modeling and simulation

new methodology for engine design and development

virtual manufacturing

virtual prototyping

virtual test cells

affordable, reliable fly-by-light control systems

automated preflight procedures

automated reasoning

care free handling

configuration performance monitoring and situation awareness

decision aids

distributed systems (via datalinks)

flight deck workload reduction technology

highly capable automation systems

human-machine systems (cognitive engineering)

integrated flight systems

situation awareness alerting systems

technology for uncrewed aircraft

upwardly compatible systems

virtual visual meteorological conditions (VMC)

4-D operations (four dimensional precision trajectory prediction)

air traffic control

air traffic management for V/STOL aircraft

antijamming technology

free flight and a precise knowledge of location

high altitude airborne communications platforms

information security

low-cost inertial measurement units

reliable and confirmed ATC information in the cockpit

satellite-based communications, navigation, and surveillance systems

energy absorbing runways

formation landings

high speed turnoffs

V/STOL infrastructure

wake vortex mitigation

wide runways

autocode

certification

common conceptual model for software

formal methods for software development

improved theory and methods of risk estimation and management in complex flight-critical systems

new software verification and validation processes

next generation ''goal level" autonomy algorithms

predictive tools/models for analyzing the total air transportation system

safety analysis

software architecture

software certification

software designed for evolution

advanced fuels

advanced high energy propellants

blast wave accelerator

combined cycle rocket-based engines

endothermic hydrocarbons

high efficiency H₂-O₂ rocket engine capable of providing optimum expansion ratio performance over the ambient pressure range from 1 atmosphere to space vacuum

hydrogen densification/storage

increased thrust-to-weight engine

laser propulsion

liquid air, cooled air propulsion concepts

pulse detonation engine

reformed hydrocarbons

solid/metallic hydrogen

strained ring hydrocarbons

unique propulsion concepts

variable expansion ratio engine

advanced composite materials

advanced thermal protection systems

cost optimized multistage to orbit rocket

integrated thermostructural systems

lightweight and high performance components for reusable launch vehicles

lightweight structures

miniaturization

air launch systems

cannons

magnetic lifter

modeling and simulations of operations

prelaunch processing

test and mission planning automation

noise control technology

pollution reduction technology