Weapons Systems

Any integrated system, usually computerized, for the control and operation of weapons; this includes strategic and tactical, offensive, and defensive weapons.

Recent Inquiries

Information on 81-mm Mortar Leaflet Rounds

What information is available for 81-mm mortar leaflet rounds?

U.S. Companies Producing 7.62 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or .308 Caliber Precision Rifles

What U.S. companies can produce a sniper rifle similar to the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System (7.62 NATO or .308 caliber)?

A U.S. Army soldier works under a Bradley Fighting Vehicle to disassemble part of the track to prepare the vehicle for maintenance.

Armored Vehicle Track Damage by Kinetic Energy (KE) and High-Explosive (HE) Projectile Ballistic Impacts

What documentation is available on track breakage by ballistic impacts from KE and HE projectiles?

Articles

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket to launch six satellites at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space

MDA, SDA Confirm Successful Launch of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor and Tranche 0 Satellites

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Development Agency (SDA) confirmed the successful launch of six satellites to low-Earth orbit at 5:30 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space by SpaceX’s…

dimpled rocket nose

Sandia and UNM Collaborate to Build More Efficient Rocket

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sal Rodriguez, a nuclear engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, is forging a rocket revolution with the help of the University of New Mexico and student Graham Monroe. Their cutting-edge research is propelling…

soldier wearing virtual reality goggles

Army Futures Command Brings New Technology to the Master Gunner School

FORT MOORE, Ga. — Master Gunners at the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Moore, Georgia, recently participated in a Soldier touchpoint that brings future technology to enhance Soldier training. “ARMORS (Augmented Reality Maintainer-Operator Relay…

Webinars

Expanding Release Envelopes Into the Supersonic Regime via CFD-Driven Analysis

The Air Force Seek Eagle Office (AFSEO) is dedicated to store-aircraft compatibility and responsible for recommending release envelope limits that permit safe and acceptable store separation, thus delivering new capabilities to the Warfighter. The term…

Assessing Military Technology: Effectiveness Is the Metric That Matters

It is clear that effectiveness is a crucial metric when it comes to making informed decisions about investments in warfighting technologies. This presentation underscores the importance of using wargame modeling software to assess the effectiveness…

Multiscale Study of Hypersonic Vehicles: From Turbulence to Ceramics

Recent technology development for hypersonic vehicles has posed several challenges from a fluid and solid perspective. We will discuss both perspectives, including the intrinsic angular momentum coupling with linear momentum and a manufacturing-driven integrated computational…

Events

AIAA’s 2024 Defense Forum

AIAA DEFENSE Forum is a Secret/NOFORN event providing a venue for leaders from government, military, industry, and academia to advance and accelerate innovation. The 2024 forum, to be held 16–18 April at the Johns Hopkins…

Missile being launched vertically from the back of a military vehicle.

2024 Missile Defense Conference

Produced in partnership the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the 2024 Missile Defense Conference is a nationally-focused classified annual gathering of prominent policymakers, military leaders, experts, and industry professionals focused on the critical issue of missile…

Global Force Symposium & Exposition

The 2024 Global Force Symposium & Exposition is a 3-day event whose theme this year, continuous transformation to deliver ready combat formations, is oriented towards providing warfighters with precise and predictive sustainment capabilities. The objective…