Space may get all the mainstream attention in the new NASA budget proposal released today, but staff from the Aeronautics Research Mission are excited about a boost in research funding for new technologies that will impact commercial aviation — including projects that aim to cut fuel burn in half, dramatically reduce noise, restore commercial supersonic flight over land, and develop safer and more efficient air traffic management. "We are ready to take these new technologies into actual X-Plane flight demonstrations," said Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for the ARM directorate, in a conference call with reporters on Monday. "We have done a pretty decent job of showing the potential benefits of all these technologies to the [Obama] Administration." The new 10-year budget proposes $790 million for the ARM in fiscal year 2017 — a boost of $150 million over last year — and increases yearly to a peak of $1.3 billion in 2023.
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