Built In Theater Expendable (BITE) UAS

The tyranny of low production numbers, cost, long life spans, and extensive logistics requirements of fielded USAF aircraft limit the force's combat capability.  The USAF must operate out of relatively pristine runways creating large, vulnerable bases. They require extensive logistics to provide fuel, maintenance, and ordinance, as well as significant tanker support to get our relatively exquisite combat aircraft into a theater. These aircraft require peacetime fleets that are too expensive in peace and not enough quantity in war, as production cannot effectively ramp up in wartime leading. They are generally not tailorable to the specific fight they are in due to such long-life cycles.   At the high end of aircraft technology, most of these items are unavoidable, but Commit has put together a concept aircraft cheaper in cost than even most aircraft that qualify as "attritable" or "expendable." The concept uses continuous composite 3-D printing for a cheap, 1,000-2,000-pound class tail-sitting VTOL drone capable of theater customizable payloads and capabilities.  The combatant commander could choose and modify his force capability in response to the enemy in the event of war.   This proposal would continue to determine the feasibility of this concept that Commit Technologies has already begun. Commit would codify their previous results and add to the aerodynamic, power, and weight and balance calculations on modeling they have already accomplished on this concept. Further, Commit would identify the specific continuous fiber 3-D printing company they will work with for a prototype, conduct finite element analysis to confirm the strength of 3-D printed structures, and in-depth time/cost estimates of the 3-D printing and production schedule to make the aircraft itself.  Phase II will create a 3-D printed, full-scale prototype.