Title Small business innovation research to support aging aircraft : priority technical areas and process improvements / Committee on Small Business Innovation Research to Support Aging Aircraft, National Materials Advisory Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (100 pages) Series Publication NMAB ; 497 Publication NMAB ; 497. Contents SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH TO SUPPORT AGING AIRCRAFT -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Executive Summary -- BACKGROUND -- Aging Aircraft Fleet -- Small Business Innovation Research -- AIR FORCE AGING AIRCRAFT PROGRAM -- PRIORITY TECHNICAL AREAS AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- AGING FLEET -- PAST REPORTS -- AGING AIRCRAFT PROGRAM -- SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM -- STATEMENT OF TASK AND METHODOLOGY -- REPORT CONTENT -- 2 Air Force Aging Aircraft Program -- AGING AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGIES TEAM -- Program Scope And Objectives Processes -- Program Strategy and Road Maps -- Resources -- TECHNICAL ISSUES -- Fatigue and Corrosion Fatigue -- Air Force Structural Integrity Program -- Corrosion Fatigue -- Program Themes for the Future -- Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity -- Corrosion -- Stress Corrosion Cracking -- Coatings -- Nondestructive Evaluation Methods -- Health Monitoring and Maintenance and Repair Issues -- Health Monitoring -- Maintenance and Repair -- Operational Issues -- Summary -- INTERAGENCY ISSUES -- 3 Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Program -- OVERALL RESOURCES -- BASELINE PROCESS SBIR Topics, Topic Allocation, and Phase I Contracts -- Phase II Contracts and Phase III Implementation -- PROCESS METRICS AND TIME PHASING -- Commercialization -- PAST SBIR TOPICS ON AGING AIRCRAFT -- Findings and Recommendations -- 4 Priority Technical Areas -- 5 SBIR Process Improvements -- NEW SBIR PROCESS -- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR SUSTAINMENT -- RECOMMENDED PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS -- Selection of SBIR Topics -- Transition from Phase II to Phase III -- White Paper Process -- Contract Award Delays -- Management of SBIR Programs and Customer Participation -- Improving Awareness and Outreach Appointment of an Ombudsperson -- References -- Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Appendix B Meeting Agendas -- FIRST MEETING -- SECOND MEETING -- The SBIR Program -- The Air Force Aging Aircraft Structures Technical Program -- The Air Force Aging Aircraft Structures Technical Program -- Closed Deliberations -- THIRD MEETING -- FOURTH MEETING -- Session on Review of Draft of Each Section -- Session on Review of Recommendations -- Breakout Session on Editing/Completing Each Section -- Continue Breakout Session on Editing/Completing Each Section Session on Review of Full Report and Recommendations -- Session on Additional Report Editing -- Acronyms Notes Title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed July 10, 2012) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Airplanes -- Maintenance and repair -- Technological innovations Small business -- Technological innovations -- United States TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- Repair & Maintenance. Airplanes -- Maintenance and repair -- Technological innovations Small business -- Technological innovations United States Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Small Business Innovation Research to Support Aging Aircraft. ISBN 0309579759 9780309579759

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