Strategic Competition: In It To Win It AIAA DEFENSE Forum is a Secret/NOFORN event providing a venue for leaders from government, military, industry, and academia to advance and accelerate innovation. This year’s theme will explore the critical role of the science and technology community in providing innovative and operationally relevant capabilities to win the strategic competition. The forum’s program consists of two main parts:...

PSTS (held each October) is intended to conduct in-depth reviews at the SECRET/NOFORN level of emerging precision strike innovative technologies—highlighting the most promising next generation precision engagement concepts, capabilities, and processes. Further, PSTS is expected to provide a forum for exchanging insights, experiences, and ideas regarding joint and coalition precision strike technologies to improve the kill chain. Topics o...

This one-day course is designed for engineers, aviation experts and project managers who wish to enhance their understanding of UAS. The course provides the "big picture" for those who work outside of the discipline. Each topic addresses real systems (Predator, Shadow, Warrior and others) and real-world problems and issues concerning the use and expansion of their applications.

Why Attend PSTS-10 Maintaining superior military capabilities are essential both to the credibility of America’s commitments to allies and partners and our ability to deter threats. As DoD continues to pursue the core objectives laid out in the QDR, the precision strike community is focused on the large-scale, high priority security force assistance operations that are ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are providing needed support to o...

The Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Division and the Missile Defense Division of NDIA will hold a new type of annual symposium that is focused on an increasingly critical area of national defense --- the state of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD). This new effort will be a product of the combined efforts of NDIA’s Missile Defense and Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense Divisions, and is intended to provide an audience of t...

The 2010 Submarine Technology Symposium (STS 2010) will be held at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) from 11 to 13 May 2010. Jointly sponsored by JHU/APL and the Naval Submarine League, this year’s Symposium will provide a classified forum for examining current, emerging, and future technologies that may aid the submarine warfighter and enhance the current and future operational performance of the Submari...