2025 Aircraft Survivability Symposium

Due to the ongoing government shutdown and uncertainty surrounding its resolution, the Aircraft Survivability Symposium scheduled for November 4 – 6, 2025 in Colorado Springs, CO, has been CANCELED.

This two-day, classified symposium with an optional third day of classified tutorials fosters technical dialogue and exchanges of information on aircraft survivability topics related to threat and current operations, the role of survivability in a contested logistics environment, susceptibility, modeling and simulation, AI/ML, and other aircraft survivability topics.

Using the Booz Allen Hamilton facility in Colorado Springs, our venue provides attendees a unique symposium experience that offers a forum for learning through its presentation of relevant tutorials on the first day and then presentations by senior keynotes from government and industry, the armed services, industry, and academia on survivability-related subjects on the following days.These presenters will discuss survivability technologies, survivability sustainment and operations, threats, and countermeasures. This symposium will also include warfighter information on survivability effectiveness in today’s fight, which will inform solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. During both days of symposium presentations, there will be a technical poster papers area where additional content can be viewed and discussed outside of the formal session presentations. The event is specifically structured to facilitate a relaxed dialogue and continuous networking opportunities among attendees. As a tribute to the many men and women who work behind the scenes, NDIA’s Air Combat Survivability Division (ACSD) will honor individual technical and leadership achievements in a formal awards ceremony during lunch on the third day.