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Let’s talk about topics

Gennaro RussoDAC - Space & Launchers, Systems & Dual Use

VI Meeting ASI Virtual DistrictRome

10 December 2015

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THE AEROSPACE SECTOR IN CAMPANIA REGION

The Aerospace sector plays a leading role within the Campania Region’seconomic system, both in terms of industrial presence and technologicalcontents

Campania is classified as:

The second Region in the Italian aerospace industry for sales volumewhich is about EUR 2 billion;

The first Region in Italy in terms of number of employees (10.000).

Campania has a market share in the sector of 22% in Italy

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1900

N. Romeo1876-1938

U. Nobile1885-1978

G.A. Crocco1877-1968

L.G. Napolitano1928-1991

L. Pascale1923

Agusta

“Planeur”14 Feb 1910

Romeo

Ro.110 May 1926

Caccia supersonico

Sagittario4 Dec 1956

ATR-42/72

16 Aug 1984

Bimotore

leggero P-6825 May 1970

EXEMPLES OF OUR HISTORY AND OUR PRESENT …

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A RELEVANT CONTRIBUTION TO AEROSPACE

Some examples:

2015: NASA selects

TECNAM P2006T for

Electric Propulsion

flight testing

1956: “Grand Tour

Crocco” and the fly-by

‘80: Introduction of

concepts as

Microgravity and

Fourth Environment

Since 1984: co-leader

of turbo-prop regional

aircraft (ATR)

1926-28: North Pole

Missions by U. Nobile

1982-1999-2005: Italian

astronauts are educated

in Naples

DREAMS is a small meteorological

station with the additional capability

to measure the electrical field at the

Martian surface

DREAMS is an integrated and

autonomous system.

It has been selected on June 2011

by ESA/NASA to be accommodated

on the ExoMars 2016 EDM mission

for surface investigations.

DREAMS International Team

includes researchers from 9

European Countries and from USA.

Led by INAF-OAC, Naples

EXOMARS

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domani

WE LOOK AT THE FUTURE WITH ENTUSIASM…

Quite Super

Sonic Transport

Multipurpuse Small

Hypersonic Spaceplane

Ala di

Prandtl

L’aereo

del 2050AW Project

Zero Tiltrotor

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CAMPANIA AEROSPACE INDUSTRY: KEY COMPETENCES

Construction of complex aircraft parts, maintenance and specialized sub-supply of parts,processes and equipment are the three areas in which the companies mainly operate inCampania Region. Their vocation is especially in manufacturing (65%), while there is asmaller, but still significant, presence in the technical services sector (22.6%).

A REGIONAL SYSTEM, NOT A REGIONAL SPACE

The Campania industrial tradition in the aerospace field and thepresence on the territory of the innovation’ actors, represented byUniversities and Research Centers, is not sufficient to furtherenhance industrial development and to maintain a primary role onthe international scenario.

So, it’s necessary that the interactions amongst the differentcomponents present on the territory don’t be fragmentary andinconclusive.

This was the rationale to constitute the Campania TechnologicalAerospace District (DAC), under the auspices of the Italian Ministryof Education, University and Research (MIUR)

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DAC – PARTNER

The DAC includes 8 large Companies (e.g.: Alenia Aermacchi, Magnaghi Aeronautica, MBDA, Telespazio,Selex, DEMA, GEVEN, etc.), 11 Research Centers (e.g.: CNR - National Research Council, CIRA - ItalianAerospace Research Center, ENEA and the 5 Campania Universities) and 125 Small and MediumEnterprises

DAC’s mission is to realize synergies amongst all theactors since the preliminary phases of the Research,addressing innovation in future programs

Research funds are focused on strategic projects forAerospace with an effective fall out on industrialapplications

DAC is supporting the consolidation of an aerospaceeducation Pole in Campania, finalized to shape profilesand competences which directly meet the industry need

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SPACE

ASI equity in CIRA with CNR: space

transport, R&TD hub

Distretto Materiali Speciali: special

materials

DAC: space transportation, Satellite

ATM, UAV, EO sensors, re-entry,

agrospace

New ASI Regione Space Protocol:

small satellites, re-entry, etc.

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THE STRATEGIC AND INDUSTRIAL VISION OF DAC

The constitution of DAC represents a paramount step towards the implementation and

the management of a network system of research and education enabling to interface

with national and international actors and promoting a vision that is typically industrial

and market oriented:

Commercial Aviation – to develop enabling methodologies and technologies todesign and produce a New Generation Turboprop Regional Aircraft;

General Aviation – to develop innovative low cost composite manufacturing and assembly techniques for General Aviation vehicles;

Space and Launchers – to design and develop space platforms (i.e. re-entrymicrosatellites) and dual use technologies associated with launchers andsystems for the logistics and communications;

MRO – to develop maintenance and overhauling procedures useful for the newtechnologies and methodologies planned within the District

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THE DEFINITION OF DAC LAUNCH PROJECTS

Integrated map of needs

(Technology Stream)

Correlationwith the research

world

Prioritarytechnology

needs

Industrial structure

and vision

From the needs to the strategic programs

CERVIA

STEP FAR

TABASCO

TELEMACO

IMM

CAPRI

MAVER

AUTOTECH

MISTRAL

FUSIMCO

SCAVIR

SIPROP

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THE START-UP PROJECTS OF DAC

To achieve its objectives, DAC has defined a strategic plan based on 12 reserach projects.They represent the main route of research, technological development, industrial application andeducation that the District is implementing

N° STRATEGIC PROGREMs (Research, Development and Training)

1 CERVIA – Virtual certification models applied to innovative solutions

2 SIFURTECMA – Development of technologies for the construction of an advanced regional aircraft

3 TABASCO – Low cost technologies and production processes for composite structures

4 TELEMACO – Scanning Electron Beam systems in millimetre-band for the application on board aircraft

5 IMM – Interiors with multifunctional materials

6 CAPRI – Landing gear with intelligent implementation

7 MISTRAL – Microsatellites Avio Launched with ability of re-entry

8 MAVER - Advanced maintenance for regional aircraft

9 AUTOTECH – Electronic technologies of autonomous flight for UAS

10 FUSIMCO – Hybrid Metal / Composite Fuselage Structures

11 SCAVIR – Advanced Configurations for an Innovative Regional Aircraft

12 SIPROP – Technologies for the design and production of aircraft on-board systems

51.6 M€

26.2 M€

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Transversal Working Groups

Internationalization & relations with other

Districts

Professional & High Education/Training

Configuration of project data on a collaborative software platform (Xmanager)Supporting project Managers in the organization and filing of project data Collecting technical and administrative documentation for project verification and funding clearance Preparation of project for co-financing by the institutionsSchedule verification by XmanagerManagement of justification document and reports Interface with financing and institution bodiesCoordination and management of the projects both for technical and financial aspects

Relations with institutions and cooperations with other DistrictsAssessment of development topics of international interestActions for the internationalization and cooperationKnow how exchange at international level

Relationships with Education and Research Centers Supporting the competences assessmentValorization of human resourcesPublication of research results on international magazines

Project & KnowledgeManagement

Dual useMonitoring of potentially dual use technologiesMapping of technological progress for dual use applicationsPreparation of the documentation suitable to verify and test dual usability

Technology Transfer & Communication

Agreements on Intellectual Property RightsManagement of financial and spin off supportApplications for patent issuesManagement of event and communication campaigns

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To become a reference model for the development of competences in the aerospace sector for

the School, the University and the Industry

To develop a network on the territory for improving the education offer

To valorise the aerospace professions promoting training activities within advanced environment

of aerospace production

To connect the world of the School and the one of Enterprises to disseminate know how,competences and capabilities

To promote the introduction in the school of courses on the most advanced technologies ( e.g.avionics, composite materials, lean manufacturing, …)

Within the frame of professional and higher educationDAC pursues the following objectives:

DAC COMMITMENT FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND HIGHER EDUCATION 1/2

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DAC COMMITMENT FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND HIGH EDUCATION 2/2

To implement the vocational training and high education transversal actions, DAC:

co-founded and participate in the Campania Aerospace Foundation Academy(FACA) in which it creates a link with the aerospace companies in order to directtraining initiatives to the actual needs of the market;

plays a strategic role in the Training Aerospace Pole (NEA - NEtwork Aerospace)(e.g.: integration between school programs and labour market/aerospace industryneeds, encouragement of industrial research transfer into businesses opportunities,etc.)

is involved in the EACP Lifelong Learning Programme - Leonardo Da VinciPartnership. DAC works with European partners to share practices, discuss issuesand compare solutions linked to vocational training and high education in theAviation sector;

Dual Use 1/3

Legend

RPAS Innovative Vehicles

Situation Awareness

Cyber Attack resilience

Enabling technologies & products

CBRNe

Technologies of autonomous flight: Autonomous Take-Off; Multi Sensor

Based Autonomous Collision Avoidance; 4D Navigation; Autolanding Based

GPS and EGNOS.

Studies on operational aspects of mission and integration in operational ATM

environment, scenarios without ATM, or under threat to the command and

control link. In flight testing and demonstration with OPV (optionally piloted

vehicles).

Hypersonic flight (Mach 4-5) technologies.

Operational testing and demonstration capabilities at the airports Grazzanise

(military integration with PISQ for sub-orbital flights) and Capua airports.

Technologies and management systems of cooperative and neuro-cognitive

behavior of UAV swarms for civil and military ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance

and Reconnaissance) missions.

Forward Looking SAR (FLoSAR) Technologies in Ku and Ka bands,

Demo capability of innovative data fusion technologies on integrated EO/non-

EO land and maritime surveillance applications products.

Satellite and airborne images analysis to support civil and military ISR

missions to management different crisis, humanitarian assistance, disaster

recovery, asymmetric attacks, peace keeping operations, etc.

New generation cockpit with multi-sensor systems for terrain awareness,

separation and collision avoidance.

Communication Systems LOS, modeling and navigation of stratospheric

balloons.

Virtual reality modeling & simulation in interactive cockpit applications and

training simulators.

Dual Use 2/3

EXAMPLES of some initiatives

AUTOTECH, Technologies and management systems of cooperative behavior of UAVs for civil and military

ISR missions

Demonstrator of a system architecture that define and guide the behavior of a UAVa network , swarm or fleet, which

operates in a Global Distributed Information Network. R&D project with Italian Air Force and international interests.

Entities involved: Large Industries: Vitrociset; SME: Ali, Antares, Chain and Caltec consortia; Research Organizations:

CIRA, CNR, three universities.

TELEMACO, Enabling technologies and innovative electron beam scanning systems in millimetric and

centimetric band for airborne radar applications

Development of antenna technologies and realization of a prototype of a FLoSAR radar looking ahead the aircraft,

Forward Looking SAR

R&D Project. Entities involved: Large Industry: MBDA; SME: Ali and Antares consortia; Research Organizations:

CIRA, three universities

MISTRAL, Air launchable microsatellite with reentry capability

Realization of a prototype of an innovative small air-launchable platform. Dual use interest on air-launch

R&D project, with Italian Air Force and international interests. Entities involved: Large Industries: Telespazio and

Vitrociset; SME: Ali, Antares and Sam consortia; Research Organizations: CIRA, CNR, ENEA, three universities

HYPLANE, A Small Hypersonic AirPlane

Study of a small 6-seat, Mach 4-5 spaceplane, able to take off and land horizontally under the current regulations.

R&D project, with international involvement. Entities involved: Large Industries: Piaggio Aerospace, DEMA; SMEs:

Trans-Tech, Blue Engineering, DESA, DigitalComoedia, Consulting Group; Research Organizations: CNR, three

universities.Dual use R&D trends at DACdevelopment of components, equipment and systems subject only to European export constraints (ITAR-Free).

development of Earth Observation (EO) based on videos and no longer only on images.

development of remote sensing technologies (optical, SAR, FLoSAR, ...) for high-speed aerial platforms.

development of technologies of high supersonic/hypersonic flight, sub-orbital flight.

development of innovative turbofan VTOL/compound platforms with RPAS or on board pilot configuration.

The 130 SMEs of Regione Campania in the sector are projected to (i) acquisition systems, pre-processing and data

transmission; (ii) optical sensors and radars, including SAR; (iii) processing software of large quantity of data (big data).

Dual Use 3/3 - SME

As part of DAC several consortia are active among which the following

ones that include clusters of SMEs characterized by specific activities of

dual use interest:

ALI Integrated system for environmental identification and

monitoring.

Antares Unmanned aerial systems specialized for environmental

monitoring. Satellites subsystems: inertia wheels, batteries,

CDMU, EGSE, etc.

Chain Innovative helicopters of small size.

Cama Qualified MRO.

SAM Data fusion and integrated analysis of in situ, airborne and

satellite data for pre and post events management.

Corista SAR data simulator. Innovative electron beam scanning

systems in millimetric and centimetric band for airborne radar

applications.

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THE META-DISTRICT SCENARIO: THE CTNA

DAC pursues its objectives within a meta-Districtperspective. In fact it’s one of the founding membersof the National Aerospace Technological Cluster(CTNA)

Thus, the strategic program of DAC is part of a widersystem which involves the other Italian AerospaceDistricts and the whole Italian Aerospace Industry tocoordinate its developments and focus the efforts atnational level

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COOPERATION INITIATIVES

MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR AVIATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN EUROPE

ITALIAN (ACARE-ITA) PLATFORM WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEFINITION OF THE NATIONAL

RESEARCH TOPICS IN AERONAUTICS IN COORDINATION WITH THE OVERALL EUROPEAN ACAREPLATFORM OBJECTIVES;

MEMBER OF EACP, THE NETWORK OF EUROPEAN AEROSPACE CLUSTERS, WHICH

CONTRIBUTES TO THE SHARING OF EXPERIENCES AND SUPPORTS THE IMPLEMENTATION

OF INNOVATIVE PROJECTS AND STRATEGICAL POLICIES OF DEVELOPMENT;

MEMBER OF SPIN-IT, THE SPACE PLATFORM, WHICH PROMOTES THE INNOVATION AND

STRENGHTEN THE ITALIAN PARTICIPATION TO EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

IN THE SPACE SECTOR.

TIGHT COOPERATION WITH THE TECNOLOGICAL DISTRICT OF ENGINEERING ON POLYMERIC AND

COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES (IMAST) ON AEROSPACE COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND

FST TOPICS TO COMPLEMENT KNOW HOW OF DAC MEMBERS AND SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION

OF INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS ON FUTURE AERONAUTICAL PROGRAMS

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CONCLUSION

DAC is acting as a cohesion element among Large Enterprises, SME’s,

Universities and Research Centers

The District was established to support and sustain the development of

competitive capabilities within the Campania aerospace industry

It supports researches lead by industry, with a concrete industrial fall

out in order to efficiently catch market opportunities

The District works for enhancing the position of the Campania

Aerospace world on a global scenario and is strongly looking for

possible international cooperation initiatives in the field of the

Aerospace Research

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The growth of Italy, Campania and related aerospace sector hingeson two new blood injections:

Freshness and managerial dynamism

A more direct involvement of youth is necessary It is necessary to pass over the command to young persons

New ideas

Open to even visionary concepts Not against the normal evolution of products that Campania is

perfectly able to express, but rather to support them through alonger-term strategic vision

CONCLUSION

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Technological Topics for Possible New Projects

Unmanned compound rotorcraft

Very high speed small aircraft

Commercial space systems

(micro- and nano-satellites,

space tourism, …)

Constricted LTA platform

Sub-orbital experimental

capabilities including spaceport

operations

MARS exploration exps.

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DAC – CAMPANIA AEROSPACE DISTRICT

THE PRESENT FOR THOSE DESIGNING THE FUTURE