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Ratio of QFD Score toInvestment to Reach TRL 6

Performance Seeking Aircraft Control and Automated Closed Loop Coupling Technologies are Currently at TRL - 6

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Ratio of QFD Score to Total Investment

1. Advanced canopy technology

2. Multivariable Reconfigurable Control

3. Tailless

4. Forebody Vortex Flow Control

5. Unitized metallic substructures; welded, low cost, light weight, durable

6. Integrally stiffened composite structures to minimize mechanical fastening

7. Exhaust system (Fluidic Vectoring Nozzle)

8. Genetic Algorithm Flight Control Laws

9. Design, Manufacturing, and Producibility Simulation (DMAPS)

10. Subsystems Virtual Design

11. Flight Control Rapid Prototyping Process

12. Active flow control (other than MEMS)

13. Advanced wing planforms

14. Expandable fuel cell

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