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AIAA Engineering & Technology Management

Addressing the Impact of the Addressing the Impact of the Reductions in Aerospace R&D Reductions in Aerospace R&D

FundingFunding

What is the effect on Society?What is the effect on Society?

Tim HowardTim Howard

Society & Aerospace TechnologySociety & Aerospace Technology

Technical CommitteeTechnical Committee

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Overview

Initial Thesis:Initial Thesis:

The U.S. is losing its pre-The U.S. is losing its pre-eminence in aerospace eminence in aerospace because the government has because the government has cut funding for Research and cut funding for Research and Development, especially for Development, especially for aeronauticsaeronautics

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Overview

What are the effects on Society of What are the effects on Society of reducing aerospace R&D funding?reducing aerospace R&D funding?

What does Society need?What does Society need? How does aerospace R&D meet How does aerospace R&D meet

those needs?those needs? What role does aerospace R&D What role does aerospace R&D

play?play?

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Maslow’s Needs

What does Society What does Society need?need?

Maslow as a Maslow as a model of model of Societal Societal needsneeds

SurvivalSurvivalSafetySafety

RelationshipRelationship

PrestigePrestige

SelfSelfActualizationActualization

Knowledge & Knowledge & AestheticsAesthetics

Trans-Trans-cendencecendence

SecuritySecurity

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Basic Needs

The Basic Needs of The Basic Needs of SocietySociety

SurvivalSurvival

SafetySafety

SecuritySecurity




PrestigePrestige




SecuritySecurity

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Higher Needs

The Higher Needs The Higher Needs of Societyof Society

PrestigePrestige

KnowledgeKnowledge

ActualizationActualization

TranscendenceTranscendence



PrestigePrestige




SecuritySecurity

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Societal Needs

How does aerospace R&D help meet How does aerospace R&D help meet Societal needs?Societal needs?

SurvivalSurvival SafetySafety SecuritySecurity Global Global

RelationshipsRelationships

National PrestigeNational Prestige Knowledge & Knowledge &

AestheticsAesthetics Societal Self-Societal Self-

actualizationactualization Societal Societal

TranscendenceTranscendence

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Survival

Remote sensingRemote sensing

Resource protectionResource protection

Atmospheric analysisAtmospheric analysis

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Severe Severe Weather Weather WarningWarning

Safety

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Protect our Protect our interests interests around the around the worldworld

Robust, Robust, flexible flexible responseresponse

Security

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Transportation enables Transportation enables relationshiprelationship

Aerospace enables Aerospace enables global interactionglobal interaction

Global Relationships

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Aerospace Aerospace leadership on an leadership on an interplanetary interplanetary scalescale

National Prestige

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Knowledge & Aesthetics

Traditional Traditional economyeconomy

Knowledge Knowledge economyeconomy

How do we build a knowledge How do we build a knowledge economy without knowledge?economy without knowledge?

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Societal Self-Actualization

The perfect The perfect democratic democratic societysociety

How has How has aerospace aerospace helped?helped?

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Reaching out to Reaching out to help others help others

Moving forward to Moving forward to our next stage of our next stage of societal growthsocietal growth

Societal Transcendence

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Aerospace R&D

What is the role of aerospace What is the role of aerospace R&D?R&D?

Provides the technologies to Provides the technologies to meet the needs of societymeet the needs of society

If other, non-US sources can If other, non-US sources can provide the technologies, do we provide the technologies, do we still need aerospace R&D?still need aerospace R&D?

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Aerospace R&D

What needs does aerospace R&D What needs does aerospace R&D directly affect?directly affect?

National securityNational security National prestigeNational prestige Knowledge economyKnowledge economy

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Security R&D

We’ll buy foreign We’ll buy foreign cars, but not foreign cars, but not foreign fighter jetsfighter jets

To have aircraft that To have aircraft that meet our security meet our security needs, we must needs, we must preserve technology preserve technology basebase

To preserve To preserve technology base, we technology base, we must conduct R&Dmust conduct R&D

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Prestige and R&D

Without R&D, we Without R&D, we lose the lose the leadership role leadership role we have played we have played for the life of the for the life of the industryindustry

We lose the We lose the “right stuff” “right stuff” needed to be the needed to be the first or the bestfirst or the best

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Government funds R&D to drive Government funds R&D to drive industry to develop productsindustry to develop products

We do not have to produce the We do not have to produce the products themselves if we can products themselves if we can profit from the knowledge insteadprofit from the knowledge instead

If we lose R&D, we lose the If we lose R&D, we lose the knowledge that we need for our knowledge that we need for our society, and our new economysociety, and our new economy

Knowledge & R&D

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Conclusion

What is the Impact on Society?What is the Impact on Society?

Aerospace technologies satisfy Aerospace technologies satisfy our societal needsour societal needs

R&D has a critical role to play in R&D has a critical role to play in meeting our need for security, meeting our need for security, prestige, and knowledgeprestige, and knowledge

Without R&D funding, we do Without R&D funding, we do lose our pre-eminence, and lose our pre-eminence, and society will suffer as a resultsociety will suffer as a result

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