NASA offers $36.6 million, solicits proposals for green aircraft concepts
June 3rd, 2010 - 2:19 am ICT by BNO NewsWASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – NASA is soliciting proposals for studies designed to identify advanced vehicle concepts and enabling technologies for commercial airliners to fly more economically, quieter and cleaner by 2025.
This is the first of several expected solicitations under the Integrated Systems Research Program in NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington. On Wednesday, “Research Opportunities in Aeronautics” announcement for 2010 was released.
The total potential value of the research contracts is $36.6 million, and proposals are due by July 15. NASA will select up to four teams for 12-month studies beginning in fiscal year 2011.
The studies will define preferred concepts for advanced vehicles that can operate within the Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen. The system is a U.S. government air traffic modernization effort that includes NASA.
The concepts must incorporate technologies enabling large, twin-aisle passenger aircraft to achieve ambitious environmental goals, including 50 percent less fuel consumption and nitrogen oxide emissions compared with today’s airliners. In addition, the project should offer an approximately 80 percent reduction in the nuisance noise footprint around airports.
After nine months work on preferred systems’ concepts, each team will be eligible to submit proposals for a subscale flight demonstrator design. NASA will select one or two concepts for 17 months of preliminary design work and risk reduction testing for completion by mid-2013.
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