Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP)

The Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP) studies, evaluates, and develops technologies and capabilities for new aircraft systems while exploring far‑future concepts for revolutionary improvements in air travel. AAVP develops technologies for all flight regimes, from hover to hypersonic, to enable safe aircraft that are faster, quieter, and more fuel efficient.

Its work spans a broad range of technologies intended to maintain U.S. leadership in aerospace and to benefit the nation’s economy and quality of life. Research from the program primes the technology pipeline and bolsters U.S. competitiveness. For subsonic transport aircraft, AAVP accelerates development of key technologies to ensure they will be ready by the late 2020s to transition into U.S.

industry’s next‑generation single‑aisle transport aircraft, and it explores high‑risk, high‑payoff concepts for future generations of aircraft.

United States

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