In 1990, the United States Congress authorized the FAA to award grants
and cooperative agreements
for research, engineering and development
activities, and an example is shown below. The program,
entitled FAA Aviation Research Grants Program , is administered by the Acquisition, Materiel and Grants
Division, AJP-7550.
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Catastrophic Failure Prevention
encourages the development of technologies and methods that can assess risk and prevent the defects that can cause the catastrophic failure of aircraft
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Aviation Research Grants
Supports research in areas necessary for the long-term growth of civil aviation. Specific research areas include air traffic
control automation, aviation applications of advanced technologies, human factors in highly automated environments, and
aircraft safety.
The FAA has identified the following technical areas of research for which it is particularly interested in receiving proposals. These areas are crucial to the FAA's overall mission of ensuring capacity, efficiency, and safety.
- Human Factors and Aviation Medicine
- Environment and Energy
- Aircraft Safety Technology
- Airports
- Communications, Navigation and Surveillance
- Aviation Weather
- Capacity and Air Traffic Control Technology
- Systems Science/Operations Research
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EXAMPLES OF GRANT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1. Development of a dripless bubbler with Iowa State University that provides immersion quality ultrasonic inspections for commercial aircraft.
2. Development of a high-speed tomography explosive detection system
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