Combat Survivability Division

Mission

To enhance survivability as an essential element of overall combat mission effectiveness.  This involves promoting communications and the exchange of survivability technical information between individuals and organizations that develop requirements for, design, build and tactically employ military weapon systems.  The Division's program covers all aspects of susceptibility reduction (probability of hit), vulnerability reduction (consequences of hit), and the overall survivability discipline, including countermeasures, signature reduction, tactics and training, camouflage, concealment and deception, as well as damage resistance, damage tolerance and combat damage repair.  An additional focus is the transfer of information and technology between the military survivability and civil aviation communities to further flight safety and to mitigate the effects of terrorist acts.

Objectives

• Foster greater understanding of combat survivability and flight safety issues by government and industry program managers as well as by those senior government officials who specify operational and safety requirements.
  
• Encourage a cost effective and balanced approach to the design and development of survivable weapon systems and promote credible trade studies and integrated survivability assessments.
  
• Bring crucial survivability issues directly to the attention of senior leadership in the Department of Defense, industry, and the Congress, when appropriate.
  
• Improve communications and cooperation between the Electronic Warfare and general Survivability Communities to a point where they are viewed as one.
  
• Promote development of the combat survivability discipline as a key component of the systems engineering process.
  
• Support the development and acquisition of simulations and test facilities used to verify the survivability of weapon systems.
  
• Encourage acquisition of combat-repairable weapon systems and development of a combat damage repair capability in the Military Services.
  
• Foster education and provide educational opportunities for those in government, industry, and academia who need to understand and employ the techniques, technologies, and information related to combat survivability.

Awards

Division awards are presented each year at the annual Aircraft Survivability Symposium.  Please contact Mr. Robert (Bob) Palazzo, Division Awards Chairman, for additional information via Phone: (973) 284-2228; Cell: (201) 452-3962; or E-mail: bob.palazzo@itt.com.

Upcoming Events

Aircraft Survivability Symposium
Event #1940
Date: November 2-5, 2010
Location: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 
http://www.ndia.org/meetings/1940

Chair

Secretary

Mr. Kevin R. Crosthwaite
Booz-Allen Hamilton
46 OG/OGM/OL-AC/SURVIAC
2700 D Street, Building 1661
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7605
Phone: (937) 255-3828 Ext. 279
Fax: (937) 255-9673
E-mail: Crosthwaite_Kevin@bah.com

Executive Board

• Mr. Dale B. Atkinson, Springfield, VA
• Dr. Frank R. Barone, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
• Dr. Mark Couch, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA
• Mr. Kevin R. Crosthwaite, Booz-Allen Hamilton/SURVIAC, Dayton, OH
• Mr. Ronald M. Dexter, SURVICE Engineering Co., Dayton, OH
• Mr. Frank Fox, Aviation Systems Integration, Washington, DC
• Mr. Hugh E. Griffis, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
• Mr. David H. Hall, SURVICE Engineering Co., Ridgecrest, CA
• Mr. George Harrison, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA
• Mr. Jeffrey Johnson, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA
• Mr. Ron Ketcham, NAVAIR, Ridgecrest, CA
• Mr. Dennis Lindell, Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office, Arlington, VA
• Col Robert Loynd, USMC, Headquarters Marine Corps, Arlington, VA
• Mr. Roland P. Marquis, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Rolling Meadows, IL
• Mr. Bennette D. McGraw, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
• Dr. T. N. (Mike) Mikel, Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, TX
• Mr. John Murphy, JLF Aircraft Systems Joint Test Director, WPAFB, OH
• Mr. Robert Palazzo, ITT, Industries, Clifton, NJ
• Mr. Raymond M. Schillinger, Transportation Security Administration, Atlantic City IAP, NJ
• Mr. Ernest "Rick" Seymour, OSD/DOT&E/LFT, Washington, DC
• Mr. Patrick S. Sharp, Modern Technology Solutions Inc., Las Vegas, NV
• Mr. Randall Short, Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, MD
• Dr. Frank J. Swehosky, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Ft Worth, TX
• Dr. Vincent Volpe, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA
• Mr. Robert A. Wojciechowski, Jr., US Army Evaluation Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground
• Mr. Gary C. Wollenweber, General Electric Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, OH

National Defense Industrial Association

Ms. Christy Mason, CMP
Director, Operations
Phone: (703) 247-2586
E-mail: cmason@ndia.org

Ms. Meredith Geary, CMP
Associate Director, Operations
Phone: (703) 247-9476
E-mail: mgeary@ndia.org

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