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The authors explore six potential approaches to pricing the use of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wind-tunnel test facilities, and they evaluate each approach against three criteria -- efficiency, fiscal impact, and fairness.
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Develops a unified decisionmaking approach for selecting aeronautics research agendas that quantifies the social and economic reasons for the research, balances competing perspectives, and enables transparent explanation of the resulting decisions.
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The ability to develop aeronautical vehicles continues to rely on the capabilities of large government test facilities, and 26 NASA facilities continue to serve those needs, but national reliance and consolidation remains the next opportunity.
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Addendum to testimony presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics on March 16, 2005.
News Release
RAND Study Concludes That Nation Should Support Test Facilities to Preserve Aeronautics Industry
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Analyzes the nation’s aeronautic testing needs and the effectiveness of, and management issues for, NASA’s major wind tunnel and test propulsion facilities in serving those needs.
Research Brief
This research shows that NASA needs to develop an aeronautics test technology vision and plan, analyze the viability of a national test facility plan, identify and maintain its minimum set of facilities, and identify shared financial support to keep its underutilized but essential facilities from entering financial collapse.
Journal Article
In this paper we report on further advances in navigation-grade IFOG technology achieved at Litton.
Journal Article
In this paper we report on the bias, scale factor, and input axis alignment performance of the inertial navigation fiber optic gyroscope over extended, dynamic temperature environments.
Journal Article
Discusses the optical phenomenon (SAGNAC effect) at the core of the RLG and FOG and demonstrates how the rate integrating characteristic can be achieved with the IFOG.
Journal Article
High performance guided-wave optical components are essential to fiber optic gyros (FOGs).
Journal Article
The paper examines the current status of Litton's design approach to the attitude-and-heading reference system interferometric fiber-optic gyro (IFOG).
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A examination of two major innovations in military aeronautics--turbojet propulsion and the variable-sweep wing--using the classical economic investment model. Three phases of the innovation process are distinguished: invention or conception, demons...
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in aero/astro engineering, Georgia Inst of Tech; B.S. in aero/astro engineering, University of Washington
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Engineer, Assoc
Ph.D. in aero/astro engineering, Purdue University
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.S. in aeronautical engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy
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