The utilization of active control systems for gust alleviation, load redistribution, flight control, and ride comfort improvements has matured over the last two decades to levels of reliability and safety that allow implementation and certification on both military and civil aircraft. Active Flutter Suppression (AFS) – the reliance on active control systems to stabilize flutter-unstable vehicles throughout their flight envelopes – while studied extensively and demonstrated in theoretical, numerical, wind tunnel tests, and flight tests, is not approved for wide spread implementation, mainly because of the catastrophic nature of vehicle response to the failure of such systems. This paper and talk will present a general introduction to active flutter suppression in the context of flight vehicle aeroelasticity and aeroservoelasticity. First steps taken in the effort to assess the state of the art and the implementation level of readiness of the technology will be described.