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Session Category: AIAA DEFENSE Forum 2021
Leveraging Innovation to Advance Missile Defense
“The United States must outpace existing and potential rogue state and rogue actor offensive missile capabilities. To do so, the country will continue to sustain, modernize and expand the Missile Defense System and pursue the rapid, yet measured, development of advanced missile defense concepts and technologies for homeland and regional defense.” (Missile Defense Agency Director’s Vision and Intent, p. 3) How can government, industry and academia work together to advance critical missile defense capabilities?
Plenary Session
Session description coming soon.
Technological Overmatch: The Critical Role of DoD R&D
“Innovation without execution is hallucination.” DoD Research and Development (R&D) is charged with taking fundamental research and applying it to technologies for the warfighter. Hear about current and future projects, upcoming opportunities, and how these organizations enable the research community to transition ideas to technological advantages.
2021 AIAA Missile Systems Award
Ralph H. Klestadt
Principal Engineering Fellow
Chief Engineer, Hypersonics
Advanced Technologies
Raytheon Missiles & Defense
“For over four decades of technical contributions and outstanding leadership in the advancement of missile systems technologies.”
Systems Engineering for the Digital Battlespace
As we enter into the fourth industrial revolution, this new digital era offers the opportunity to transform warfighting technologies and their development. To do so requires a new approach to systems engineering. More than two years after the Digital Engineering Strategy was released by DoD, hear how the Services are embracing digital tools and techniques, and what the next steps are for implementation.
Defense Industry Leadership Series: How Digital Technologies are Driving Change in Defense
In today’s global threat environment, speed to the battlefield is just as important as speed on the battlefield. Digital technologies, and the data threads they create, are helping drive transformative change throughout the defense industry, from how we envision and field solutions to how we interact with customers and warfighters. In his talk, Bryan Rosselli will offer key insights into Raytheon Missiles & Defense’s unique digital transformation journey and how it’s accelerating the pace of innovation and performance, strengthening customer partnerships, and helping industry and government leaders reimagine the DoD’s acquisition process.
Air Force Futures Agile Gaming Demo: Hypersonics 2030
The Air Force Futures Agile Wargaming Team will be providing a modified demonstration of a strike game. The demo game will examine how to prosecute various targets using different combinations of platforms and munitions. The demo has been modified to account for a larger group of participants, as agile games typically average 6-9 players for 3-hour sessions. This game and the surrounding conversation is meant to highlight the quick-turn development and execution key for successful agile games through the lens of conceptual hypersonics. Players do not need to have any prior experience in wargaming or hypersonics.
AIAA Wright Brothers Lecture in Aeronautics Award
“Hypersonics for National Security: Conventional Prompt Strike”
DoD Digital Engineering Strategy and Implementation
As we enter into the fourth industrial revolution, this new digital era offers the opportunity to transform warfighting technologies and their development. To do so requires a new approach to systems engineering. More than two years after the Digital Engineering Strategy was released by DoD, hear how the Services are embracing digital tools and techniques, and what the next steps are for implementation.