Nathan Daniels

A SECRET//NOFORN symposium on aircraft and space combat survivability, covering survivability technologies, sustainment and operations, threats and countermeasures, and warfighter lessons from recent combat. Tutorials address aircraft combat data from 2021 to the present and space survivability as a warfighter imperative. Program topics include cooperative missile engagements; survivability enhancements against evolving threats; emerging surface-to-air missile threats; and aircraft survivability in directed-energy environments, including counter-directed-energy capabilities, systems engineering, and materials for countering high-power RF threats. Other sessions address operational survivability and self-protection in contested environments, thermal management for infrared suppression, full-spectrum aircraft survivability, high-value air-asset self-protection, and aircraft reliability, safety, upkeep, readiness, and efficiency. Additional sessions cover digital engineering, modeling and simulation, mission-level assessment, cyber survivability, mission engineering analysis, digital test and training environments, and a multi-systems aircraft combat survivability workshop. Technical poster papers supplement formal presentations. Government and industry panels and warfighter perspectives are intended to inform solutions to future challenges; NDIA’s Air Combat Survivability Division recognizes technical and leadership achievements.