An Introduction to the Aerospace Technology Institute

Overview
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Civil aerospace market forecast
29,000
24,000
40,000
Large aircraft
(>100 seat)
by 2032 worth
Business Jets
by 2032 worth
Helicopters
by 2032 worth
5,900
Regional aircraft
(<100 seat)
by 2032 worth
$4.4 $648 $165 $648
trillion
billion
billion
billion
Total civil aerospace market in
excess of
$5
trillion
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Importance of aerospace to the UK
The UK’s aerospace industry is the second largest in the world; market share c.17%
Employment for over 109,000 directly and 120,000 indirectly
2013
£2.4bn £25bn
Growth
Exports
£28bn
Turnover
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Evolution of the Institute
Lifting Off – (March 2013)…provide long-term certainty and
stability to encourage industry to develop the technologies for the
next generation of aircraft in the UK. To this end, Government and
industry have agreed to fund jointly the creation of a UK Aerospace
Technology Institute…
March 2013
Sept 2013
AGP Industrial strategy
“Lifting Off” launched
100 MSc Bursaries
awarded
Dec 2013
Apr 2014
June 2013
1st NATEP bids submitted
Minister for Business opens
ATI
AGP progress
report “Flying
High” published
GKN announce Boeing
737MAX Winglets
Airbus opens Barnwell &
Pegasus House
40 strategic ATI projects
already launched
Gary Elliott announced as CEO
of ATI
Aerospace apprentice
reception at House of
Commons
X ATI projects
announced
June 2013
June 2013
Feb 2014
June 2014
June 2014
1st ATI call launched
Prime Minister opens
Bombardier C Series wing
facility
AGP Technology Showcase
Deputy Prime Minister
opens Rolls-Royce factory
ATI at Farnborough
International Airshow 2014
3 ATI projects announced
ATI CR&D call announced at
Farnborough
NATEP Announced at Paris
Airshow
AGP members support
See Inside Manufacturing
Stephen Henwood
announced as Chair of ATI
7 ATI projects announced
2nd
NATEP bids submitted
Northern Ireland Partnering
for Growth launched
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The Aerospace Technology Institute
Overview
An independent institute established as a collaboration between
Government and Industry to lead and challenge the UK’s Aerospace
technology strategy and through £2.1 billion of secured R&D
investment maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position.
Vision
Sustaining and growing an internationally competitive Aerospace
sector in the UK through investment in technologies consistent with
commercial aircraft updates, new aircraft and the sector’s strengths.
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The Institute’s goals
•
To challenge, create, publicise & embed an
Aerospace technology vision and strategy
•
To become recognised as the industry’s strategic
lead and conduit for R&D investment
•
To deliver R&D projects consistent with the
strategy which provide UK economic benefit
•
To bring together Government, Industry, center's
of excellence and Academia
•
To maximise all R&D funding opportunities
•
To act as a national & international showcase
•
To preserve, adapt & enhance the UKs Aerospace
R&D infrastructure
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The Institute’s model & funding
• Private company limited by guarantee; non-profit distributing
• Independent Board made up of:
– Chairman- Stephen Henwood
– Chief Executive- Gary Elliott
– Non executive large company members- 4 positions
– Non executive- 2 positions
– Non executive small company member
– BIS representative- Huw Walters
– TSB representative- Simon Edmonds
– EPSRC representative- Philip Nelson
• £2.1Bn commitment across 7-year from the UK Government & Industry
– 50% provided by Government (BIS) and 50% collected from Industry
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The Institute’s technology focus
•
Four specific areas of technology expertise and R&D development/investment:
Quieter
Greener
Lighter
Cheaper
•
And, one specific area of oversight and technology expertise:
– Whole aircraft architecture and integration
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The Institute’s investment approach
• Technologies, facilities and skills development consistent with the UK Aerospace
vision & strategy, in particular:
• Critical aerospace technologies
• Those already with strong UK capabilities
• Those with substantial economic impact
• A range of support and investment in:
• Small scale, open call collaborative research projects
• Complex umbrella programmes
• Large-scale demonstrators, which could combine and integrate the results of
smaller projects and take them to a higher level of maturity
• Plus the alignment of investments in:
• Physical & educational facilities
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The Institute’s success to date
+£400m committed across some +125 projects
Carried out by UK aerospace companies in collaboration with academic institutions
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Launch of next call this week
• Competition call expected value £25M in ATI funding (industry matched)
• Timing:
– Call to open 20th October 2014
– Competition to close 28th January 2015
• Focused on:
– Medium/smaller companies
– Lower TRL technologies (TRL3-5/6)
– Project duration up to 36 months
– Projects of circa £2-4M (Grant £1-2M)
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Contact:
Martell House, University Way,
Cranfield, Beds, MK43 0TR
Telephone: +44 (0) 1234 758587
Email: [email protected]
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