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Sponsoring Organizations:

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

Institution:

• Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center (SURVIAC)
• 46 Test Group Aerospace Survivability and Safety Operating Location

Survivability:

• BAE Systems ALE-55 Wins $36M Full Rate Production Contract (Yahoo News-28 Sep 11)
• Bell Helicopter Completes Safety Enhancement Program (Rotorhub-28 Sep 11)
• Raptor Detection Technologies Awarded Contract to Supply SAFE-T Explosive Detection
  Products to US Army (Yahoo News-27 Sep 11)
• Review: Most Afghan Helo Crashes Accidental (Military Times-27 Sep 11)
• Chinook Marks 50 Years of Service (Army News-26 Sep 11)
• Force Protection Receives $16.9 Million Award for Fuel Tank Protection Kits (Yahoo News-26 Sep 11)
• Pocket Robots Gain Ground with Marines (Military Times-26 Sep 11)
• SURVIAC Success Story: Global Strategic Appreciation (DTIC.mil-2011[.pdf format])

Lethality:

• ATK Receives $58.7 Million Award for Continued Production of 20mm PGU Ammunition
  (Yahoo News-28 Sep 11)
• BAE Systems Receives Orders for $63 Million to Deliver Seven Mk 45 Gun System Upgrades
  to the U.S. Navy (Yahoo News-28 Sep 11)
• General Dynamics Awarded $9 Million by U.S. Army for Modular Artillery Charge System
  (Yahoo News-27 Sep 11)
• Sheppard Graduates First 9-level Aircraft Armament Course (Air Force News-26 Sep 11)
• Navy Successfully Runs DDG 1000 Round Testing (Military.com-23 Sep 11)
• Making Ammunition Safer for the Warfighter with Thermal Indicating Paints
  (Armed with Science-8 Sep 11)

Homeland Security:

• Homeland Security: DHS and TSA Acquisition and Development of New Technologies (GAO-22 Sep 11)
• Program Promotes Maritime Surveillance of Small Vessels (Defense.gov-21 Sep 11)
• How Building Sciences Have Changed Since 9/11 (NIBS.org-9 Sep 11)

Space Survivability:

• New Military Communications Satellite Could 'Save Lives' (Spaceflight Now-28 Sep 11)
• TacSat-4 Encapsulation Time-Lapse VIDEO & Launch Announcement (Armed With Science-27 Sep 11)
• U.S. Space Completes Study for USAF and Identifies Cost-Effective Ways to Procure MILSATCOM
  (Yahoo News-27 Sep 11)

Modeling and Simulation:

• Software Re-Creates Flyable Mishaps from Flight Logs to Improve Safety Training (DefPro-27 Sep 11)

Information:

• Aircraft Survivability Journal (Summer 2011 [.pdf format])
• DoD Techipedia: Collaborate and Help our Warfighters (user registration required)
• SURVIAC Bulletin 2011 Issue 1 (.pdf format)
• SURVIAC Dynamic Events Calendar
• Manage subscriptions or request SURVIAC publications

News & Upcoming Events:

• SURVIAC ESAMS Training, 25-28 Oct 11, Dayton, OH.  More info here...
  
  
• SURVIAC FASTGEN/COVART Training, 1-3 Nov 11, Dayton, OH.  More info here...
  
  
• 12th Annual Aircraft Fire & Explosion Vulnerability & Protection in Accidents,
  Combat & Terrorist Attacks, 8-11 Nov 11, Woburn, MA.  More info here...
  
  
• 7th Annual Winter Joint Aircraft Survivability Program (JASP) Model Users Meeting (JMUM), 
  15-17 Nov 11, Nellis Air Force Base, NV. More info here...
  
  
• As a result of the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Summit in June, the National Ground Intelligence Center
  (NGIC) volunteered to do a "sanity check" of some of the most used used systems in RADGUNS to
  ensure they are producing results that make sense. To determine the systems of interest,
  a survey was put together:
  
  http://www.bahdayton.com/adaweaponsurvey 
  
  If you have either used RADGUNS for a study in the last two years or plan to use it in the next two years,
  please participate. The results of the survey will be used to shape the future of RADGUNS and ADA
  modeling.  
  
  In addition to the survey, we would also like to gather some typical scenarios you run for your
  RADGUNS analyses. These scenarios could be used to build test cases to further exercise
  RADGUNS for the existing systems. If you have scenarios to provide, please contact
  surviacmodels@bah.com.

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