SURVIAC E-News is an electronic publication that presents items of interest to members of the survivability/vulnerability community.  If you have an upcoming event, an S/V-related publication or website, or anything that might be of interest to the SURVIAC E-News audience, email us and let us know.

Sponsoring Organizations:

• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO) (Accessible to .mil domains only)
• Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME) (User registration Required)

Institution:

• Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC)

Survivability:

• House Authorizers Concerned About Army GCV (Military Times-12 May 10)
• Navy Show Gives Sneak Peek at New Planes, Helos (Military Times-11 May 10)
• Oates: Anti-IED Effort Needs Fewer Restrictions (Military Times-11 May 10)
• SECNAV Announces Five New Principles for Navy Acquisitions (Navy News-10 May 10)
• Marines Learn Downed Aircraft Survival (Military.com-7 May 10)
• New Air Force Combat Systems Officer Course Opens at Navy Base (Air Force Link-7 May 10)

Lethality:

• $25.8 Million for Nightforce Sniper Dayscopes (Defense Industry Daily-12 May 10)
• Raytheon Restarts Production of Laser Maverick Missiles (Defense Industry Daily-12 May 10)
• Armed Tankers About Ready to Deploy: Missile Tests Next Stage in Development Process
  (Military Times-11 May 10)
• XM25 Lets GIs Eliminate Unseen Targets (Military.com-10 May 10)

Homeland Security:

• FCC Examining Survivability of Nation’s Broadband Networks (GSN-12 May 10)
• Maritime Security: Varied Actions Taken to Enhance Cruise Ship Security, but Some Concerns Remain
  (GAO Report-9 Apr 10[.pdf format])

Space Survivability:

• A New Eye in the Sky to Keep an Eye on the Sky (The Space Review-10 May 10)
• India’s Missile Defense/Anti-Satellite Nexus (The Space Review-10 May 10)
• SBIRS HEO-2 payload achieves technical intelligence operational acceptance from NSG
  (Air Force News-10 May 10)

Modeling, Simulation and Cyberspace:

• Raytheon Links Combat Systems for Networked Lethality at Army Exercise (Yahoo News-12 May 10)
• Alion Awarded $6.8M Contract to Simulate Detection of Radiological and Nuclear Threats to
  Support Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Yahoo News-11 May 10)

Information:

• Aircraft Survivability Journal (Spring 2010[.pdf format])
• DoD Techipedia: Collaborate and Help our Warfighters (user registration required)
• SURVIAC Bulletin 2010 Issue 1 (.pdf format)
• SURVIAC Dynamic Events Calendar
• Manage subscriptions or request SURVIAC publications

News & Upcoming Events:

• Aircraft Fire & Explosion in Accidents, Combat & Terrorist Attacks, 25-28 May 10,
  Woburn, MA. Click here for more...
  
  
• The Joint Aircraft Survivability Program (JASP) Model Users Meeting (JMUM), 15-17 Jun 10,
  United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.  Click here for more...
  
  
• 20th International Aircraft Fire Protection/Mishap Investigation Course, 4-8 Oct 10, Dayton, OH.
  Click here for more...
  
  
• CALL FOR PAPERS! Aircraft Survivability Symposium 2-5 Nov 2010, Click here for more...
  
  
• SURVIAC has begun distributing the newest version of the Vulnerability Toolkit.  These programs and their upgrades were funded by the Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO) and developed by ASC/ENDA.  
  
  The new version includes improvements to the Computation of Vulnerable Area Tool (COVART), the Fast Shotline Generator (FASTGEN), the Projectile Penetration library (ProjPen) and VulnView.
  
  You can obtain the new version of the Vulnerability Toolkit from SURVIAC. Order requests should be directed to Mr. AJ Brown at 937-255-3828 x284 (DSN: 785-3828 x284) while technical questions should be directed to Mr. Rodney Stewart at (937) 255-3828 x272 and Mr. Gary Drummond at (937) 255-3828 x269 for COVART and Mr. Jonathan Smith at (937) 255-3828 x209 and Mr. Rodney Stewart at (937) 255-3828 x272 for FASTGEN.

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