Volume 4 No. 33

Survivability/Vulnerability News and Events

19 Oct 06

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)
• Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME)

Institution:

• Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC)

Survivability:

• AAI Receives up to $102.6M in New Contracts for its RQ-7 Shadow UAVs (Defense Industry Daily-19 Oct 06)
• USMC Pays $14.35M for 150 Mine Roller Vehicle Attachments (Defense Industry Daily-19 Oct 06)
• BAE EIS Sending 3,874 CREW to the Front Lines (Defense Industry Daily-18 Oct 06)
• A-10 Upgrade Effort Transforms Warthog Capabilities (Air Force Link-17 Oct 06)
• Lockheed Martin Rolls Out First F-22 Slated for Operations in the Pacific Region (Yahoo News-17 Oct 06)
• Textron Marine & Land Awarded Contract Modification for New Armored Security Vehicle Variant
  (Business Wire-17 Oct 06)
• AMC Declares C-130J Operational (Air Force Link-16 Oct 06)

Lethality:

• Training Sharpens MEU's Non-Lethal Edge (Marine Corps News-18 Oct 06)
• Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Penetrator Performance During Final RATTLRS Sled Tests
  (Yahoo News-18 Oct 06)
• Raytheon Fires Surface-Launched AMRAAM to Test New Command Destruct/Self Destruct Capability
  (Yahoo News-17 Oct 06)
• Ships Ahoy! The Harpoon Missile Family (Defense Industry Daily-17 Oct 06)
• Navy begins Flight-Testing JSOW Block II (UPI.com-16 Oct 06)
• HARM Targeting System Ready Ahead of Schedule (Air Force Link-16 Oct 06)
• Laser-Cannon AC-130 Tests Begin (Air Force Times-13 Oct 06)

Homeland Security:

• DTRA & Achaogen Targeting Class A Bacterial Pathogens (Defense Industry Daily-18 Oct 06)
• Predator to be On the Prowl Again (GCN.com-17 Oct 06)
• Surveillance Facility Opens on Northern U.S. Border (GovExec.com-17 Oct 06)
• Bush: New Port Security Law Helps Protect American People (Defenselink-13 Oct 06)
• ANSER Homeland Security Newsletter
• MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base

Space Survivability:

• Boeing to Build More Wideband Gapfiller Satellites (Yahoo News-18 Oct 06)
• Rockwell Collins Delivers 10,000th GPS Engine for GB-GRAM Program (Rotor.com-18 Oct 06)
• SBIRS Evaluating New Technologies (Defense Industry Daily-17 Oct 06)
• Hypersonics, Bombers, and Space Access (The Space Review-16 Oct 06)

Modeling & Simulation:

• Navy Pilots Test New Flight Device (Navy Newsstand-18 Oct 06)
• Battle Command Training Program (Stars and Stripes-14 Oct 06)
• Future Force Company Commander (F2C2) Simulation Demo (www.Army.mil Download)

Information:

• SURVIAC Bulletin 2006 No. 1
• Aircraft Survivability Journal (Summer 2006)

News & Upcoming Events:

• Winter JMUM 2006, November 14-16, 2006, Nellis AFB, NV.  POC: Paul Jeng (937) 255-3828 x273, paul.jeng@wpafb.af.mil

• SURVIAC has begun distributing the newest version of ALARM, Version 5.2 and the accompanying EARCE 3.2 CD. These programs and their upgrades were funded by the Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO) and developed by AFRL/IFSD.  You can obtain the new version of ALARM and EARCE from SURVIAC. Order requests can be directed to Mr. A.J. Brown at (937) 255-3828 x284 (DSN: 785-3828 x284), while technical questions should be directed to Mr. Barry Vincent at (937) 255-3828 x283 (DSN: 785-3828 x283)

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