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1 Assessing ULI's Progress Toward Meeting Its Goals
1 Assessing ULI's Progress Toward Meeting Its Goals
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industry/ARMD Provide broad opportunities for students at different levels, including graduate and undergraduate, to participate in aeronautics research Promote greater diversity in aeronautics through increased participation of minority-serving institutions and underrepresented university faculties in ULI activities The study committee evaluated each of these strategic goals through a series of briefings from representatives from NASA, universities, industry, and others, followed by requests for information for greater insights and clarity. While it is difficult to measure success for some of the goals, particularly as the first round of awards is still ongoing, this chapter summarizes the committee's assessments.
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Assured autonomy for aviation transformation. Over the first three rounds, the NASA ULI program has awarded programs as follows: One for safe, efficient growth in global operations; One for innovation in commercial supersonic aircraft; One for ultra-efficient commercial vehicles; Two for transition to low-carbon propulsion; Two for real-time system-wide safety assurance; and Two for assured autonomy for aviation transformation.
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The phrase "complementary research" in this goal could be replaced with "cutting-edge or transformative research" that is complementary to ARMD's ongoing research activities. Even with the funded projects, it was not clear to the committee how complementary the ongoing funded projects are, since the PIs are expected to set their own research paths independent of NASA's researchers and perhaps with limited knowledge of the actual ongoing research activities under each of ARMD's six strategic thrusts.
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Proposers also suggested that better clarity was needed regarding how much the expectation is that the effort will focus on research versus how much on broader educational involvement, graduate and undergraduate extensive curriculum additions, diversity, and K–12 outreach. Again, NSF was suggested as an example, stating that the NSF Engineering Research Center program also stresses these broader educational goals but provides a specific budget for them.
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Technology transfer can also occur when professors on ULI projects engage in start-up activities, which is discussed in Chapter 5. In addition, while it was not in the purview of the committee to recommend restructuring the ULI program, the committee notes that some of the funded projects are in the realm of basic research, while others are applied research.
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The committee applauds ARMD for initiating ULI with this as a top goal and recognizes that NASA must fit the selected projects into a research strategy. As a result, some of the four strategic goals may at times be at cross purposes, and NASA has to balance these.
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