Mission Systems Research T-34

To develop a mission concept for the T-34 and the necessary flight systems to enable rapid, low-cost, repeatable access to a spectrum of flight environments for the evaluation of novel sensors, pilot displays, novel actuators, and algorithms. Start open loop with control loop closed by the pilot based on displays and full RFCS closed loop capability in out years.

The expected outcome of this initial effort is a mission concept for the aircraft systems and a high level plan for the design along with stakeholder buy-in that validates the need and will provide an initial pipeline of experiments for the capability.

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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