SNS: Great Innovations, Great Problems, Great Solutions
 
 
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Great Innovations,
Great Problems,
Great Solutions


A Keynote FiRe Presentation by
Dennis Bushnell


 


 
 
 
 
 

SNS: Great Innovations, Great Problems, Great Solutions

A Keynote FiRe Presentation by Dennis Bushnell

Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center

 

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Publisher's Note: When Dennis Bushnell began his Opening Night talk at FiRe this year, there was an immediate, almost palpable sense of something like affection for him among the audience. I believe this was the result of his obvious and sincere personal concern for the future of the planet and our species, and of a near-instant recognition of both his intelligence and his experience in addressing these issues.

Part list, part deep dives, and part suggestions for business-based solutions to the world's largest problems, his rapid-fire run through of what we face, and how to face it, was both impressive and helpful. 

At his close, he received perhaps the longest standing ovation we've seen at FiRe over our 17 years, and for that reason alone, I have no doubt that our broader membership will both appreciate and enjoy this transcript of his talk. - mra

 

 

Great Innovations, Great Problems, Great Solutions

A Keynote Presentation by Dennis Bushnell,
Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center

Introduced by Mark Anderson

FiRe 2018 Conference

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Stein Eriksen Deer Valley Park City, Utah

Photos 2018 Kris Krg and Future in Review

Mark Anderson: I've had the benefit of knowing Dennis Bushnell via email for a while now, and it's been a real pleasure. As you all know, I know all of you via email, too. Email's a pretty interesting way to know somebody, it turns out. It's particularly interesting when you've got somebody who's a brainiac. And so I would say something via email like, "Waddya think of that?" and then about 20 minutes later I'd get this 40-page document back from Dennis all about everything that's ever been thought about that, with 10 pages of documentation behind it.

It's been a real pleasure. And I'm really, really pleased that he's with us this evening to share his thoughts with us.

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Now, I often do this, and I'm going to do it again tonight ... Dennis is an overachiever; I'll just put it that way. And there's no way, when I start reading this to you - which I apologize for in advance - you'll understand why I'm reading it instead of trying to paraphrase it. As you already know, he is chief scientist at NASA, at Langley.

As chief scientist, Dennis is "responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation, with an emphasis on atmospheric sciences and structures, materials, acoustics, flight electronics / control / software, instruments, aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, hypersonic airbreathing propulsion, computational sciences, and systems optimization for aeronautics, spacecraft, exploration, and space access."

That's the first paragraph. [Laughter]

"Dennis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of ASME, AIAA, and the Royal Aeronautical Society; and a member of the TechCast Panel, a group of international experts engaged in technology forecasting. He has served as reviewer and editor for 40 journals and organizations and has made seminal contributions in the area of biofuels / biomass as petroleum replacements, sourced from wastelands and saline / wastewater via halophytes and algae.

"Dennis developed the 'riblet' approach to turbulent drag reduction, high-speed 'quiet tunnels' for flight-applicable boundary layer transition research, advanced computational approaches for laminar flow control, regenerative aerobraking for Martian entry, electron-beam free-form fabrication, and advanced hypervelocity airbreathing and aeronautical concepts with revolutionary performance potential. He has contributed to national programs including Sprint, HSCT/SST, FASTSHIP, Gemini, Apollo, RAM, Viking, X15, F-18E/F (patent holder for the 'fix' to the wing drop problem), Shuttle, NASP, submarine / torpedo technology, Americas' Cup racers, Navy rail gun, MAGLEV trains, and planetary exploration.

"Dennis originated and organizes a yearly workshop for the US ArmyTraining and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) on future technology / warfare, out of which has grown the Army 'Red Franchise,' the preferred national security future operating environment utilized by the US Army, Navy, and Joint Forces Command."

Obviously, a slacker. Dennis, please come out here. [Laughter, applause]

Dennis has access, as I mentioned in the agenda, to an incredible array of opportunities and technologies, from the bottom of the ocean throughout outer space, and this evening he's going to share with us ideas of some of the largest problems that we face and some of the solutions we might find here. Thank you.

Dennis Bushnell: Okay, Boss. [Applause]

Good evening. Among other activities for NASA, the National Security apparatus writ large, and the academies, my work, where is it all going, major tech issues and opportunities. So, we're going to start off with a cook's tour of some tech, and briefly the societal issues, and then I'm going to describe four greater-than-$1-trillion-a-year new business opportunities going forward, to address the major societal issues and then some.



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