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:...

Why You should participate: Precision engagement will continue to be a priority capability to effect positive change for warfighting success. No other forum brings together government, industry, and academia interests and classified interactions in the complex and evolving field of precision strike weapons. Leadership Speakers include: Military leaders—Services, Joint Staff, COCOMs, Fleet, OSD, PEOs, ACC, AFRL & AFSOC Civilian leader...

This is NDIA’s 8th Annual event on a critical national defense topic, and the subject of an increasingly important and continuously growing new body of military art: The State of Integrated Air and Missile Defense, or IAMD. In addition to updates on the state of critical IAMD systems and initiatives, our speaker theme this year will be to highlight the idea of “Speed to Capability ---- Changing the Way We Deliver New IAMD Capabilit...

PRECISION STRIKE TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM (PSTS-16) October 25-27, 2016 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Kossiakoff Center – Laurel, MD Please register NOW to join us for the 26th Annual SECRET//NOFORN Precision Strike Technology Symposium (PSTS-16). This very popular and time-critical forum is one of the best technology symposiums of its kind. Nearly 50 powerful military and civilian superstars in3 dayswill focus on P...

Please make your plans NOW to join us for the 25th Annual SECRET//NOFORN Precision Strike Technology Symposium (PSTS-15). This very popular and time-critical forum is one of the best technology symposiums of its kind. As the Defense Department concentrates on developing new operational concepts and new capabilities, the precision strike community is focused on identifying and defining Precision Strike Priorities to Meet Global Challenges. From...

Strength Through Investment—Decisive Strike Capabilities SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: All attendees must be U.S. Citizens holding a Secret or higher clearance. Event #5PST - Conducted at the SECRET//NOFORN Classification Level Maintaining superior military capabilities are essential both to the credibility of America’s commitments to allies and partners and to our ability to deter threats. As DoD continues to pursue core object...

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...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...

This introductory course has recently been expanded to three days by popular demand. It has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the entire field of commercial satellite communications, and who must understand and communicate with engineers and other technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical pe...

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.