The US FAA Aviation Research Division seeks white papers on the research topics listed below.
White papers will be accepted at any time until 4 December 2034 or until the specific topic is retired.
Calls for additional topics may be made under this BAA, and will be issued as amendments.
While amounts and timelines will vary, for most topics it is expected that successful projects would be funded up to USD$200,000 per year for up to 3 years.
The Aviation Research Division operates across five programs
- fire safety
- airport technology R&D
- software and systems
- structures and propulsion
- separation standards analysis
Current Topics
- designing and implementing an embedded acoustic sensor system for monitoring subsurface damage in concrete test pavements at NAPTF
- design model for reflection cracking in airport asphalt overlays of rigid pavements
- rational overload criteria for airport pavements in the ACR/PCR method
- scale effects in reflective cracking: table-scale versus full-scale overlay tests
- engineering analysis of field monitoring and instrumentation data
- enhancement of airport pavement layer backcalculation software (BAKFAA)
- advancing pavement condition assessment practices for airport pavements
- advancing concrete strength evaluation for airport design and construction
- structural integrity of metallic components
- nickel anomaly fatigue testing
- integrated flight and propulsion control for rotorcraft
- complex digital systems
- future of oversight
Documents
BAA – Aviation Research: BAA+Solicitation+692M15-25-R-00004+Amendment+010
Topics of Interest: BAA+Topics+of+Interest+Amendment+010
