ASCEND connects the civil, commercial, and national security space sectors, along with adjacent industries, to embrace the opportunities and address the challenges that come with increased activity in space. Building our sustainable off-world future requires long-term thinking. Strategic planning, innovation, scientific exploration, and effective regulations and standards will help us preserve space for future generations. ASCEND enables the t...

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:...

Join AIAA as we recognize individuals who have made tremendous achievements during their careers and continue to shape the aerospace industry. Our newly reimagined AIAA Awards Gala will take place under the stars in an outdoor event space at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. This setting will allow for free-flowing networking and social distancing.

The AIAA DEFENSE Forum is focused on aerospace technologies and their applications in national security. The 2022 forum will explore how the science and technology community can advance research and development to rapidly provide operationally relevant capabilities to the warfighter. This Secret/NOFORN event provides the ideal venue for leaders from government, military, industry, and academia to advance and accelerate modernization.

Join AIAA online for the 2021 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, 9–11 August 2021, the only forum that covers both aeronautics and space propulsion and energy technologies in one place. The 2021 forum will explore how innovations in the propulsion and energy industries are enabling sustainability. Topics include electric propulsion, gas turbine engines, hybrid rockets, air-breathing propulsion, advanced energy technologies, and more. Disc...

This workshop will assess and promote improvement to the current state-of-the-art in CFD-based transition modeling. Objectives Assess the current state of the art in laminar-turbulent transition prediction in an industrial CFD environment Determine and document best practices for transitional flow simulations Verify transition/turbulence model implementations Encourage risk taking by participants and promote improvements to CFD prediction cap...

Organized by the AIAA Inlets, Nozzles & Propulsion Systems Integration Technical Committee. PAW Objectives: Assess the numerical prediction capability (meshing, numerics, turbulence modeling, high-performance computing requirements, etc.) of current-generation CFD technology/codes for inlets, diffusers, and nozzles and their propulsion-specific boundary conditions. Develop practical modeling guidelines for CFD prediction of propulsion flow...

Hosted by CASI, the 23rd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference will provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of information for attendees from across the globe about leading-edge research and development activities associated with space planes and hypersonic atmospheric flight vehicles and the technologies underpinning these capabilities. Presentations will describe national programs from Nor...

The AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum (AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum) integrates the Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit (JPC) with the International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC) into an annual event that brings together technologists, developers, operators, program managers, chief engineers, and policy makers to address aerospace propulsion and energy issues and challenges. Both JPC and IECEC have a long history and...

AIAA DEFENSE is a premier conference for technical exchange within aersopace defense and security arenas. The forum will provide you with an opportunity to learn about developments in the field from a deep bench of technical and keynote presenters, and discuss your findings in a U.S., SECRET level (or higher) clearance community. Attendance is limited to U.S. Citizenship and at least a SECRET security clearance. Registration for AIAA DEFENSE 2...