Armament Systems Forum
"Ensuring Continued Superiority & Readiness Through Balanced Investments:
• Evolving Legacy System Capability
• Realizing Unconventional & Emerging Armaments"
20 - 22 April 2015
Baltimore, MD
Monday, April 20, 2015
Tutorial Sessions
- 17357 - Manufacturing Readiness Assessments of Technology Development Projects - Mark Serben, U.S. Army RDECOM-ARDEC
- Use of PRODAS 6 DoF with Trade Study Trajectory Module to Simulate Long Range Dispersion - Alan Hathaway, Arrow Tech
- Cutting Down the Kick: Understanding and Managing Large Caliber Recoil - Dr. Eric Kathe, Benet Labs
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Keynote Speaker:
- Jose Gonzalez, Deputy Director, Land Warfare and Munitions, Strategic and Tactical Systems, OUSD ATL (US)
U.S. Air Force Keynote:
- John Wilcox, Director, Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Current and Future State of Surface Ship Weapons
- CAPT Mike Ladner, USN, PEO IWS3 - Surface Ship Weapons, U.S. Navy
NDIA Legislative Update
- Will Goodman, Vice President, Policy, NDIA
National Armaments Consortium (NAC) Support of Emerging Armaments Technology
- Charles Zisette, Executive Director, NAC
- Don Geiss, Jr., Director, DOTC
Lightweighting of Large Caliber Weapons - Present and Future (17342)
- Dr. Andrew Littlefield, U.S. Army, RDECOM-ARDEC
Constructing Common Fire Control Across Weapon Platforms (17345)
- Michael Wright, U.S. Army, RDECOM-ARDEC
Deep Futures of Small Arms Study (17384)
- Jason Paugh, Battelle
Lethality Technologies - 2025 and Beyond
- Michael Zoltoski, ARL Weapons and Materials Research Directorate, Lethality Division
Extended Area Protection & Survivability Gun Army Technology Objective Update (17346)
- Manfredi Luciano, U.S. Army, ARDEC
UWB Radiating Using Explosive Pulse Power from M4 Rifle (17331)
- James Burke, U.S. Army, RDECOM-ARDEC
Electrothermal-Chemical Gun Systems Utilizing Novel Electric Solid Propellants (17385)
- Tim Manship, Digital Solid State Propulsion
81mm Mortar Enhanced Warhead Development Process (17408)
- Ryan Hooke, U.S. Army, RDECOM-ARDEC
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Guns & Missiles
Ammunition
- 17400 - Advanced Capability Extended Range Mortar (ACERM) - Luke Steelman, Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division
- 17409 - Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) Program Update - Robert Hunter, Orbital ATK Armament Systems
- 17403 - Single Increment Loading Process for Pressed Explosives - John Sequeira, U.S. Army, ARDEC
- 17485 - The Development and Testing of the Improved Kinetic Energy Electronic Time (IKE-ET) Round - Geoffrey Bland, NSWC Dahlgren
- 25mm PGU-47/U Ammunition - Scott Smith, NSWC Dahlgren
Direct and Indirect Fire Guns
- 17390 - Integrating Dynamic System Simulation into the Design Process for an Aircraft Mounted Gun’s Recoil System - Doug Ramers, NSWC Dahlgren
- 17341 - Novel Mortar Blast Attenuation - Anthony Cannone, U.S. Army Benet Laboratories
- Recoil Elimination For High Velocity Guns - An Analysis of Alternatives - Dr. Eric Kathe, ARDEC-Benet Labs
- Retaining Lethality Overmatch through Science & Technology - Joe Pelino, U.S. Army ARDEC
Fire Control
- Paladin Secure Trajectory Enhancement (PaSTE) - Edward Gilsky, U.S. Army, ARDEC
- 17416 - Exploring Next Generation Fire Control User Interfaces - David Musgrave, U.S. Army ARDEC
- 17326 - Ammunition Data Link for M256 Cannon - David Smith, U.S. Army Benet Laboratories
- 17344 - Effect of the Internet-Of-Things on Fire Control and Weapon Systems - Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army, ARDEC
Unconventional & Emerging Armaments
Non-Lethal Technology
- JNLWP Next-Generation Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons Update - Dave Law, JNLWD
- 17369 - Combining Multiple Methods of Less-Lethal Technologies to Overcome Potential Countermeasures - Howard Kent, Armor Development Group, LLC
- 17375 - Single Munition Variable Velocity Non-Lethal Ballistic System for Fires Near the Muzzle to More Than 100 Meters - Dr. Jeffrey Widder, Battelle
Emerging Technologies
- 17336 - NATO Weapons and Sensors Working Group Updates - Dr. Bart Halpern, U.S. Army ARDEC
- 17383 - Potential Development Path Integrating Fire Control Radar for Advanced Combat Optic Displays - Howard Kent, Armor Development Group, LLC
- 17417 - Additive Manufacturing Methods, Techniques, Procedures & Applications - Enabling Technologies for Military Applications - Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army, ARDEC
Missiles and Rockets
- 17382 - Safety and Interim Fatigue Testing of a Domestic RPG Systems - Christopher Perhala, Battelle
Armament Systems
- 17407 - Wireless and Modular Test Equipment Design for Weapon System Sustainment - Daniel Tagliente, U.S. Army, ARDEC
- 17337 - Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) Power Electronics Module Gun Launch - Miroslav Tesla, U.S. Army, ARDEC
- 17405 - HERO Primer - Jason Mishock, U.S. Army