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Past ARMD Projects

NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) has a strategic research plan that responds to emerging trends, new entrants to the aviation community, and technological advances that enable exciting innovations in flight. As a result, through the years our various programs and projects may begin, operate, and conclude.

NASA's new CMC-based acoustic liner

Past ARMD Projects

This page features links to past ARMD projects. Content relevant to these past projects is being kept online for historical purposes, but is no longer being updated.

Convergent Aeroautics Solutions (CAS)

A project that was under the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP)

Model 5 10x10 Supersonic Wind Tunnel.

Commercial Supersonic Technology Project (CST)

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

An artist concept of a skinny, rectangular hypersonic vehicle with delta wings and the NASA logo, covered in black tiles.

Hypersonic Technology Project (HT)

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

Cross section of a typical turbofan jet engine showing the combustor in teal, the high-pressure turbine in blue and the high-pressure compressor in yellow.

Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core Project (HyTEC)

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

The "double bubble" D8 Series future aircraft design concept comes from the research team led by MIT.

Advanced Air Transport Technology Project (AATT))

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

Artist concept of a vertical lift vehicle at a vertiport at sunset.

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology Project (RVLT)

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

Composite Fan Casing.

Advanced Composites (AC)

A project that was under the Advanced Air Vehicles Program (AAVP).

Artist concept of the Future Flight Central.

Airspace Technology Demonstrations (ATD)

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

smartphone navigation app

Air Traffic Management – eXploration Project (ATM-X)

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown

Air Mobility Pathfinders Project (AMP)

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

Image of a city showing connecting lines laying on top.

System-Wide Safety Project (SWS)

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

Facet image showing airplanes in flight across the United States.

SMART-NAS

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

Drone in flight

UAS Traffic Management

A project that was under the Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP).

UAS-NAS Research Activities depicted in this image.

UAS in the NAS

A project that was under the Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP).