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Title Aeronautics innovation : NASA's challenges and opportunities / Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies, Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, National Research Council of the National Academies ; Stephen A. Merrill, editor
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 93 pages) : illustrations
Contents National Aviation Needs and the Federal Role -- Private Sector Perspective -- Technical Requirements -- The Federal Government's Role in Technology -- Resources and National Policy -- Program Focus and Prioritization -- Innovation Facilitators and Accelerators for Aeronautics -- Portfolio Approach and Coherent Alignment with Mission and Customers -- Management for Technology Transition -- Flexible Human Resource Practices and Incentives for Creativity -- Financial Management to Minimize the Disruptive Effects of External Demands -- Organization of NASA Aeronautics R & D -- Public Workshop Agendas -- Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Summary NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development - fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) has played a vital role in the U.S. aeronautics industry. In recent years, the directorate's leaders and experts outside the agency have sought ways to speed innovative uses of ARMD's research results. But the directorate faces management challenges that make it difficult for such applications to succeed - or to occur at all. This report from the National Academies' National Research Council, offers the agency guidance on how to manage the transfer of technology to external users, as well as implement flexible personnel and financial-management practices. The report also points out problems that stem from a lack of agreement on ARMD's future direction and several years of federal budget cuts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
SUBJECT United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration fast
Subject Aeronautics and state -- Technological innovations -- United States
Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States.
Technological innovations -- United States
Technology and state -- Technological innovations -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Aeronautics, Commercial
Technological innovations
CIVIL AVIATION.
NASA PROGRAMS.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Merrill, Stephen A.
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.
ISBN 0309660181
9780309660181
1280506717
9781280506710
9786610506712
661050671X
0309180627
9780309180627