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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 92 - Dayton - October 2003
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY REPORTS 4.2.2 Research Institutes and Companies 4.2.2.7 Advanced Information Engineering Services, Inc (a General Dynamics Company, formally Veridian)
Title	Advanced Information Engineering Services, Inc (a General Dynamics Company, formally Veridian)
Presenter	Norman Weingarten
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Abstract	This presentation was a report on the status of the flight research programs at Advanced Information Engineering Services, Inc. a General Dynamics Company – AIES-GD (formerly Veridian). Veridian was acquired by AIES-GD in august of 2003. We are part of their information services division and continue to work in the areas of flying qualities, flight control, displays, test pilot training and demonstration, and in-flight simulation. AIES-GD continues to operate four in-flight simulators: two Learjets, a Convair 580 TIFS-Total In Flight Simulator, and the F-16 VISTA-Variable Stability In-flight Simulator and Test Aircraft); and a Beech Bonanza. The Learjets continue with flying qualities and flight control training at the USAF and Naval Test Pilot schools as well as training for the National, French, and Empire TPS, and a PIO Workshop for the FAA. AIES-GD is now into the second year of a 5-year Upset Recovery Training program for the FAA started in August 2003 at Roswell, NM. Actual upset scenarios are simulated in the Learjet and pilots are trained in recovery techniques. The Bonanza is used to expose pilots to aerobatics. Significant improvement in confidence of recovery has been obtained with the subject pilots (~160 to date). The TIFS is now in the evaluation stage of a program to simulate the X-40A Integrated Adaptive Guidance and Control FCS for AFRL, Boeing, and Barron Associates. The objective of the flight program is to validate in-flight the reconfiguration of the control system and re-targeting of the trajectory to accommodate control surface failures on the X-40A. Steep approaches are simulated through actual touchdowns. Radar test bed work for the Rome, NY radar research lab (AFRL) is also being planned. The VISTA, based at the USAF TPS is flying most of the curriculum flights at the school (Air -Air, EO, HUD, HMD and flying qualities sorties) as well as many project flights, most recently, an in flight evaluation the Autonomous-Air Collision Avoidance System - A-ACAS. In this program the VISTA has simulated an F-16 and a UAV with the A-ACAS flight control system programmed on its computers. Actual collision avoidance maneuvers have been accomplished with other aircraft. AIES-GD Flight Research is also assisting in the development of two new aircraft: the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) Javelin – a two place business jet; and the Italian Aermacchi M-346 two-place jet trainer. AIES-GD is assisting in areas of flight control design, flying qualities analysis, air-data systems, parameter identification, FAA certification, and flight test planning. The AIES-GD Flight Research group is also in the process of having a new hanger and office facility built at the Niagara Falls Airport (move scheduled in Spring of 2004), and planning has started on modifications of a third Learjet to convert it into an in-flight simulator.