CENTRA Senior Technical Advisor Awarded American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Wright Brothers Lecture in Aeronautics Award
12 October 2021 - 11:30PM
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has awarded
CENTRA Senior Technical Advisor Walter Rutledge, Ph.D., the Wright
Brothers Lecture in Aeronautics Award. The recognition gave
Rutledge an opportunity to present his lecture, “Hypersonics for
National Security: Conventional Prompt Strike,” to aerospace peers
at a classified AIAA forum in September.
“I’m very humbled by this award,” Rutledge said.
“My colleagues were very nice to put my name in for this and I feel
like I’m a spokesperson for the national effort. I was just in a
leadership position at the right time to make that happen. This was
very much a team effort.”
PAE Interim President and CEO Charlie Peiffer
said the award highlights the unique technical capabilities of one
of its most recent acquisitions, CENTRA Technology.
“I congratulate Walt for this prestigious award
that recognizes his many contributions to the study of
boost-glide,” Peiffer said. “Because of his research and its
defense applications, our world is safer and more secure.”
Rutledge is an expert in hypersonics, which
focuses on the flight of aerospace vehicles at speeds at or greater
than Mach 5. More than two decades ago, he and his colleagues at
Sandia National Laboratories began researching boost-glide flight,
then a relatively new area of hypersonics research.
“Through flight test demonstrations, we were
able to prove that the concept of boost-glide was feasible and
something that would be very valuable to the warfighter,” Rutledge
said.
With more than 40 years working in aerospace
technology, Rutledge served as the program manager for early
boost-glide concept studies, conducted by Sandia for the U.S.
Department of Defense. This research included modeling, simulation,
ground tests, experiments and flight testing, laying the groundwork
for the Pentagon to begin investing in hypersonic boost-glide
weapon systems.
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