60th Annual Fuze Conference
"Celebrating 60 Years of Fuzing Excellence"
9 - 11 May 2017
Cincinnati, OH
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Keynote Address:
- Dr. Yvette Weber, Air Force Deputy Program Executive Officer for Weapons, Armament Directorate
Session II - U.S. Government Science, Technology & Acquisition
Chair: Ed Cooper
Assistant: Bob Hertlein
- Army S&T Strategy, Thomas Crowley, Chief, Munitions Fuzing Branch, US Army ARDEC and
Rick Kulbacki, Electronics Engineer, US Army RDECOM AMRDEC - Navy S&T Strategy, Dr. Michael Deeds, Fuze and Initiation Systems Branch Manager, NSWC IHEODTD
- Air Force S&T Strategy, George Jolly, Technical Advisor, Air Force Research Laboratory
- OSD Perspective/Fuze IPT, Lawrence Fan, JFTP Manager, NSWC IHEODTD
- Joint Fuze Technology Program (JFTP), Lawrence Fan, JFTP Manager, NSWC IHEODTD
- International Collaboration in Fuze R&D: Opportunities and Perspectives Dr. Jason Foley, International Program Officer, European Office of Aerospace R&D
Concurrent Sessions:
Session IIIA:
Chair: Nassir Alaboud and Ed Cooper
- 19273 - Use of Multi-core Processor Technology in Fuzing Systems, Jeffrey Fornoff, US Army ARDEC
- 19340 - Conventional Fuze Improvements, Keith Amadio, US Army ARDEC
- 19287 - Next Generation 40mm IG Fuzes, Florian Kunz, Junghans Defence
- 19368 - Shock Testing of 3D Printed Multimaterial Circuits, Dr. Amanda Schrand, AFRL
- 19191 - Influence of the Embbeded Position for Damages and Reactive Threshold Induced by Concrete Penetration, Alexandre Lefrancois, Centre de Gramat
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Concurrent Sessions:
Session IVA:
Chair: Roy Streetz and Mark Etheridge
- 19278 - Spectrum of Modern Fuze Batteries, Matthias Franz, Diehl & Eagle-Picher
- 19205 - The Power of the Fuze, Harald Wich, Diehl & Eagle-Picher
- 19335 - Test Bench for Activatable Batteries, Sebastian Hess, EMI Fraunhofer
- 19359 - Dynamic Initiator Imaging at the Advanced Photon Source: Understanding the Early Stages of Initiator Function and Subsequent Explosive Interactions, Dr. Nate Sanchez, Los Alamos National Laboratories
- 19502 - Development of Environmentally Benign Pyrotechnic Delays, Dr. Jay Poret, US Army RDECOM-ARDEC
- 19284 - Insensitive Electric Priming And Fusing Ignition Method Using Aluminum Nitride/Tungsten Trace Heaters, Howard Kent, Armor Development Group, LLC
- 19252 - DBX-1 - Green Primary Explosive Related Efforts, Steve Marino, Action Manufacturing Company
Session VA:
Chair: Bob Hertlein and Byron Lee
- 19317 - Fuze Modeling Grand Challenge: Computational Comparisons Round 3, Dr. Janet Wolfson, AFRL
- 19206 - Higher-Order Finite-Element Analysis for Fuzes Subjected to High-Frequency Environments, Dr. Stephen Beissel, Southwest Research Institute
- 19308 - Modeling and Simulation of a High Fidelity Electronics Assembly Responding to Drop Test, Miroslav Tesla, US Army ARDEC